Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sort of optimism about sexuality that seemed to have inside it this implicit model that sexuality was a good thing , that that by erm experiencing more sexuality , more sexual pleasure , we could all be happier , nicer people , that there was n't anything inherently wrong with sex . |
| 2 | We conclude then that choice even by the most responsible moral agent , however closely it resembles a pure Kantian decision for principle against inclination , is rational only if its fundamental procedure is that exposed to view by our unintellectual , intuitive romantic deciding whether to flee to Bali . |
| 3 | accepting the soft body that wanted to press against his own . |
| 4 | As a consequence they were ‘ extracted ’ from their culture and failed to communicate to their own people . |
| 5 | As she sat and waited for Clelia , she looked out across the park , at the spring trees , and tried to concentrate on her Spanish . |
| 6 | She asked for red wine and when he brought it she raised the glass and tried to think of something original and witty by way of a toast but he forestalled her by saying , ‘ Cheers , ’ and she could think of no other response . |
| 7 | Ajayi smiled and shook her head ; she put her hand just to one side of the glittering projected line of squares and seemed to fumble with something invisible in the air . |
| 8 | And the more he succumbed to the allure of his own Führer cult and came to believe in his own myth , the more his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility , losing his grip on what could and could not be achieved solely through the strength of his ‘ will ’ . |
| 9 | It was raised vertically by steam pressure and allowed to fall by its own weight . |
| 10 | Those who can speak , are given time and encouraged to respond with their own story . |
| 11 | Quickly stripping off her gown , which had become soaked again , she sat down by the fire and began to comb through her wet , tangled hair with her fingers , holding the strands to the blaze to dry . |
| 12 | He was to have a wide , if rather scattered , influence in English theology through the nineteenth century , and served to introduce into it some of the same impulses that Schleiermacher brought in Germany . |
| 13 | They were not legally represented and declined to mitigate on their own behalf . |
| 14 | After just three races the team gave up and started to work on something smaller and lighter . |
| 15 | In 1899 Elizabeth Hughes resigned as principal , pleading ill health , and went to live with her younger brother , Arthur , in Barry . |
| 16 | After moving into a suburban villa in Norwich he fell behind with his mortgage payments and had to turn to his new club for a £19,000 loan to prevent the building society from repossessing his home . |
| 17 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 18 | They were denied the 4.5% pay increase and continued to work under their existing contracts , including the terms incorporated into those contracts under the collective agreement . |
| 19 | Exceptions to this were found in the older family where the wife had always been active and continued to work into her 70's , and where a specialised product like cheese was being produced for farm gate sales . |
| 20 | Then came mistake number one : She was discharged from hospital and left to return to her empty house without anyone telling her family . |
| 21 | Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer . |
| 22 | Symmetric multi-processing firms — such as Corollary Inc , Sequent Computer Corp , AST Research Inc , NCR Corp and Compaq Corp — who have signed up for Microsoft 's NT technology do not deny that as it stands , SMP NT does need to be adapted and tweaked to run on their respective systems . |
| 23 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 24 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 25 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 26 | Henry was given oxygen but appeared to recover of his own accord . |