Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they come round and sweep up outside or you know near enough every day . |
| 2 | It 's two thirty or we go now or we go in about an hour but we ca n't go later I should think , can we ? |
| 3 | Prokofiev used several leitmotifs in the same way in his score fur Romeo and Juliet where they heighten not only the emotional involvement of the hero and heroine but also the conflict between the warring Montagues and Capulets ( see page 26 ) . |
| 4 | When I inform him that I read recently how the estimable gentleman had found the Lord and was living in a Salvation Army hostel in Grimsby , he wonders aloud whether the vodka and orange was not partly to blame . |
| 5 | The widow told me that she went out twice a day — once very early for shopping and once for a walk towards evening — but never where the passeggiata took place . |
| 6 | It was only when The Sun newspaper displayed it on a girl in a highly provocative pose that she realized how easily the purity of the image could be sullied . |
| 7 | With a great effort she immersed herself in her work and it was n't until Myra put her head round the door that she realised how quickly the time had gone . |
| 8 | Her main fault is that she takes too seriously the allusive jokes in Asquith 's letters . |
| 9 | I am sure that she follows up precisely the kind of matter to which my hon. and loyal Friend has referred , but I shall make certain that that is so , and write to my hon. Friend . |
| 10 | If it 's stamina and feeling ‘ fitter ’ that you want then probably a sport such as badminton , squash or tennis will do the trick . |
| 11 | Imagine friends that you see only once a year , say at Christmas time . |
| 12 | The rain had nearly stopped , so she hurried back up the Gloucester Road for her bus . |
| 13 | Although we go out quite a lot , we just go for walks . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 15 | It is often in popular fiction that we see most plainly the conventions that writers handle and readers learn , and where literary competence begins to be developed ’ . |
| 16 | We all know that we have yet again a busy and exciting year in front of us . |
| 17 | I could n't really cope with this separation , despite that fact that we live only about a minute from the SCBU . |
| 18 | I was born in Buckinghamshire , my father was a farm worker , so we moved round quite a bit . |
| 19 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 20 | Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field . |
| 21 | Conflicts in the countryside — especially between farming , forestry and conservation — have in places become so intense that they threaten not only the sound use of land resources but also the future prosperity of rural communities . |
| 22 | The great advantage of having a fixed date er for these European elections on the ninth of June , a date that 's been well known for a considerable time now , should be the certainty for the electorate , that they know not only the date of that election but the geographical boundary er of the constituency in which they live er the candidates that they can choose from and of course in relation to European elections , the number of er members of the European parliament that there will be representing the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | The basic and sorry fact about the grants with which Frohnmayer had so much difficulty was that they expressed not only the unity of American life , but the fissures within it . |
| 24 | The people who have raised the petition , in particular the Scunthorpe pensioners rights campaign , point out that they seek not only the restoration of the link that was broken in 1979 , but also parity with pensions in Europe . |
| 25 | Mixing soul , country and intelligent pop influences in their powerful acoustically-driven sound , they showed on the night that they had not just the songs but the conviction also to make an impact . |
| 26 | For years 45 Sutton Place became a meeting place and home-from-home for the entire British colony in New York — a place where British actors , writers and directors , great and small , knew that they had not only a constant refuge but a friendly shoulder to lean on and a sympathetic ear . |
| 27 | Nor should they be put off by roads which have signposts that are positively misleading , or which some naughty boys have turned round so that they point in totally the wrong direction . |
| 28 | The abstractions of a type description may be preferred on occasions in that they activate more effectively the process of learning . |
| 29 | Further experiments showed that sloth metabolism was so slow that they defecated only once a week . |
| 30 | But there is a need to beware of the assumption that they have as direct an impact upon the political system as they do in the United States . |