Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 2 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 3 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 4 | The maxims would serve only to guide him towards fuller awareness of the present situation . |
| 5 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 6 | It is generally best to leave maintenance and repairs of central heating boilers to an expert service engineer , and to have your system serviced at least annually to keep it in good condition . |
| 7 | Although Weinberger opposed it , he did not often do so with force : partly because , it seemed to him , nobody was foolish enough to propose it with much vehemence . |
| 8 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |
| 9 | Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property . |
| 10 | Of course , the Bill includes provisions to allow the assigned band to be changed if the value of the property changes sufficiently to take it into another band . |
| 11 | Several people have been er kind enough to remind me as General Secretary , and other people , that we 're all expendable . |
| 12 | Yeah , he only shoved ten pence in to tell me about that giro . |
| 13 | ( ‘ Every nation is to be considered advisedly , and not to provoke them by any disdain , laughing , contempt or suchlike , but to use them with prudent circumspection , with all gentleness , and courtesy . ’ |
| 14 | ASTONISHING ‘ It would be astonishing , given the standards , not to apply them in this case , ’ said Mr Bartlett . |
| 15 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 16 | In those gardens he would , no doubt , have noted new plants from America and how best to grow them in this country . |
| 17 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 18 | ‘ They decided not to use it on this trip because opening it might disrupt the passengers . |
| 19 | The upstairs lighting circuit is laid out on the floor of the loft , taking care not to put it under any loft insulation ( where it could overheat ) , and not to put junction boxes where they could be damaged by careless feet . |
| 20 | Not to psychoanalyse her in any way , but we all became the Big Sisters to Debbi . |
| 21 | I mean , if you 'll promise not to haul me into another clinch ? ’ |
| 22 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 23 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 24 | So it was a husband 's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy . |
| 25 | If you wish to see her you may do so , but I must stress that you should try not to upset her in any way . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You trust me not to hurt you in any way ? ’ |
| 27 | We therefore petition you as our benefactor and saviour to command Apollonius the governor of the district not to molest us in any way , since we are distinct from them both in race and customs … and we ask that the temple without a name be known as that of Zeus Hellenios " ( Ant . |
| 28 | It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form . |
| 29 | Antibodies are proteins which , once synthesized by cells of the immune system to counter and inactivate ‘ foreign ’ molecules , enable the body to retain the ‘ memory , for the intruder and hence the capacity rapidly to inactivate it on subsequent invasion . |
| 30 | Trees return once more to help us in this endeavour . |