Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 2 | At their trial , in which Mathews was the principal prosecution witness , they were all sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation they serve not less than twenty years . |
| 3 | Immediately after half-time they went further ahead when captain Nigel Johnston drove a short penalty for Jonathan Tate to take play to the front of the Limavady posts and from the resultant maul Johnston himself drove over to score with Crothers converting . |
| 4 | Although attempts to inject a more strategic element into economic management were made in the aftermath of the fuel crisis of 1947 , in practice they went little further than attempts at greater co-ordination . |
| 5 | At his own expense he established no less than twenty-two charity schools in Pembrokeshire alone . |
| 6 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 7 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 8 | It has shown its commitment to ensure that all children with special needs , including dyslexics , receive the help they need as early as possible . ’ |
| 9 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 11 | She now had a collapsible white metal stick she used quite defensively when out walking . |
| 12 | His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot . |
| 13 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 14 | On this basis you ensure as far as is possible that Decision Height is reached at a point where the field is ahead of you and visual contact established . |
| 15 | It would have been possible to have considered the Orpheus mosaics and a group of saltire mosaics , at the level of substantial affinity : in both instances there are similarities of content and decoration , where these similarities are not strong enough to suggest the presence of even a single craftsman who worked on more than one of the comparable mosaics . |
| 16 | The formal school , in short , remains separate from the community it serves very largely because the people in that community wish it to be so . |
| 17 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 18 | They debouched from this second strait into a broad body of water which stretched as far as the eye could see toward the setting sun … |
| 19 | All the while you imagine as hard as you can what he would look like , your dream lover . ’ |
| 20 | So if they 're out of the water they die just like if we 're under the water too long we die . |
| 21 | Foinavon passed the post with his ears pricked and that night he ate up just as usual . |
| 22 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 23 | On the eve of the opening of the new season I arrive much earlier than necessary , even though I can not begin fishing until midnight . |
| 24 | Karajan himself lives more dangerously than his rivals , taking time to let ideas blossom rather then self-consciously pushing forward , and yet he displays the keenest sense of line . |
| 25 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 26 | This desire for control over all aspects of her life is allied to a single-minded approach to her career which dates back long before she became famous . |
| 27 | Now he has time on his hands to reflect on a career which started so promisingly when he made his Worcestershire debut while still at Malvern College in 1982 , but never lived up to those aforementioned expectations simply because of injury . |
| 28 | And this morning we got as far as did n't we ? |
| 29 | After all , in our adult classes we strive to regain the spontaneous , whole bodied , springy movement we performed so naturally when young . |
| 30 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |