Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road began to wind rather than run straight between the dykes . |
| 2 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 3 | Rather than delve more into the riches of Dinah 's more earthy blues recordings , it concentrates on her versions of all too familiar standards , the staple diet of supper club crooners the world over ; |
| 4 | And the lads used to go and pinch out of the girls ' bags . |
| 5 | Or — and something came apart in his stomach and turned a revolution and plummeted downwards — were they all politely and patiently waiting with well-controlled longing because it would not be too long now before they could get home and carry on with the lives they preferred without him ? |
| 6 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 7 | ‘ Then the police came along and told us we should stay inside and keep away from the windows . |
| 8 | Northern prop Roy Powell 's attempt to kick the ball dead miscued , allowing Ropati to dash through and touch down beneath the posts . |
| 9 | Now that her ankle was better she should really go back and chase up on the calls Steve should have made in Palma so that it was all tied up when he got back but she did n't want to spoil it all with Fernando . |
| 10 | Children and adults come to learn and face up to the facts of caring and sharing on the principal that we can not survive alone on Earth — we must share it with all the other animals and plants . |
| 11 | The chance to be her own boss , to give free rein to her design flair , to stand up and reach out for the stars … finally that chance was hers . |
| 12 | ‘ Well done , Percy , old boy ! ’ he would call out to Percy Harvey , who would grin and pass quickly up the stairs to the Music Library with his scores . |
| 13 | Being authentic ( ‘ feeling real ’ ) is bound up with a capacity to accept and live constructively with the contradictions between the positive and negative elements of life . |
| 14 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 15 | While the force inside the stockade could batter the attackers from behind its stout fence , another detachment of men could steal out and close in on the attackers ' flank on the landward side ; the Rebecca 's guns covered the beach below the settlement , so they would not be able to make their approach from the beach , unless they discounted major losses of life . |
| 16 | ‘ This decision is merely the formal recognition of an existing relationship that we hope to extend and strengthen further in the years ahead , ’ said IAMCR 's President , Cees J Hamelink . |