Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Félix slept more soundly than we did — and snored and swore in his sleep — for the three nights he stayed , Jean-Claude and I could not feel comfortable about making love . |
| 2 | It is important to remember that Britain fared less badly than the USA and some of its Continental neighbours , and that even adjusted for unemployment , real wages continued to increase on average until the early 1930s ( figure 4.2 , see Dimsdale 1984 ) . |
| 3 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 4 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 5 | One obvious difference was that Ruby worked more calmly than on Monday . |
| 6 | And Glentoran went even closer when Gary Smyth hit the inside of the post after Keenan had fumbled a Hillis cross . |
| 7 | The Prior questioned him closely and Corbett answered as accurately as he could . |
| 8 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 9 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
| 10 | The intensity of Comfort 's concentration was almost palpable and Julia lay as still as she could and breathed as carefully as her sodden lungs would allow so as not to disturb her . |
| 11 | The world of this novel is as much his country as the wild , half-derelict countrified pockets around the rapidly developing suburbia of Wimbledon , Kensington , and Battersea which the fictitious Philip and Arthur explored as thoroughly as the real Arthur Hardy and Edward had explored the parts of London commons which they called ‘ Our Country ’ . |
| 12 | The fingers tightened round her arm , biting deep into her flesh as she continued to struggle , and Fran knew as clearly as she knew her own name that he had no intention of letting her go . |
| 13 | In fact , Yorkshire have some good players and if Tendulkar plays as well as he can , he will provide extra runs at a lively tempo , so giving Martyn Moxon more chances to be in control of the game . |
| 14 | When Kate and Peter moved there more than 20 years ago , there was a patch of grass in front of the house in which languished an etiolated hybrid tea rose or two . |
| 15 | The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words . |
| 16 | Rohmer had hold of the filing cabinet with Jimmy now , and Cardiff and Barbara moved quickly aside as Duvall reached the landing again , looking vacantly at the wrestling match with the cabinet . |
| 17 | Once they had left the shop and collected their horses , Athelstan and Cranston rode as fast as they could up Piper Alley back into the main thoroughfare . |
| 18 | Even when Shaun and Bez went as far as editing Penthouse for the day , papers tutted and sighed but still printed pictures of the pair grinning like village idiots , surrounded by tits and bums . |
| 19 | Yet if Elizabeth relied more heavily than her predecessors on direct taxation to carry her through the years of peace , she showed a greater reluctance than her father to squeeze the country heavily in times of war . |
| 20 | Rights were conferred upon one Thomas Thurland ( a clergyman and Master of the Savoy Hospital ) , Sebastian Spydell and John Steynbergh as early as 1561 to search for mineral thought little positive was achieved . |
| 21 | But Eusebius goes much further than this . |
| 22 | But Cambridge looked nowhere near as effective after manager John Beck withdrew White at half-time . |
| 23 | After considerable reflection , a discussion of the match with a wide circle of friends , a session with a sports psychiatrist , and two calls to the Samaritans , I decide that I lost because Martin played much better than I did . |