Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies . |
2 | When he came back on deck she tried once more to make conversation . |
3 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
4 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
5 | After a while I calmed down enough to rest myself . |
6 | In Britain the inner city provides an analytical empty vessel which serves well rhetorically to provide a rationale for a disparate set of political projects , not only those of racial subordination but also far fetching social reforms . |
7 | The name which springs most readily to mind in connection with our Embassy in Paris ( the Hôtel de Charost ) is Lady Diana Cooper , wife of the first post-war ambassador , Sir Alfred Duff Cooper . |
8 | There are also indirect impacts of silviculture which relate not only to forest management but to the construction of roads and the effect of forest removal on watershed management . |
9 | Ballymena and Antrim had more good wins through John McAdorey in the 100m and Eddie King who finished very strongly to take the 800 in one minute 52.65 . |
10 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |
11 | His formal meeting with the US delegation ignored the pledge he made then only to meet ‘ old friends ’ from abroad privately and not to discuss politics . |
12 | Then of course there 's a there 's a chain which hangs on there to prevent this this c |
13 | The next week she came in especially to tell us she had joined our special club . |
14 | ‘ Breaking down old traditions , he was the first club manager who set out methodically to organize the winning of matches , ’ observed the Daily Mail . |
15 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
16 | ( ‘ There 's an old man who comes in sometimes to show them how to make musical instruments . ’ |
17 | So one word we came down here to talk about , and hey , here 's a whole lot things . |
18 | At its southern end it turned sharply eastwards to cross the street described above , and possibly to link with yet another running south-west from the Tiddington road ; it has been suggested that the latter was constructed as a short cut to Ryknild Street and skirted the southern suburb . |
19 | But from the way he reached out slowly to pick up the bottle and said , " In the meantime — my treat ? " |
20 | By spending three million pounds diversifying in this way he hopes not only to create new employment , but also to save buildings that would otherwise have fallen into disrepair . |
21 | The sections of the booklet which seem most commonly to have been used concerned : the pastoral system ; school ‘ climate ’ and discipline ; pupil assessment and record keeping ; and the section on evaluating a lesson . |
22 | By some unspoken agreement they settled quietly together to watch the night fall and the heavy tide thunder in . |
23 | The public inquiry into the expansion of the Windscale nuclear reprocessing factory gave the anti-nuclear movement the impetus it needed not only to challenge the official estimates of risks , but also to question repeatedly the idea that the simplistic estimation of the numerical size of a risk should govern its regulation . |
24 | In his Politics he knew just enough to make sense of their institutions within the context of his classification . |