Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 2 | When this was over , I would switch the tape recorder off and offer some drinks . |
| 3 | When Tom and Belinda reached the lift , he took her arm suddenly and said , ‘ Belinda , can you go across to the blood bank now and give that blood ? |
| 4 | Question 15 Should the hardship test be applied to all claims on the compensation fund so as to exclude all institutional and most corporate applicants ? |
| 5 | Copy the table of place values above and fit these numbers into the correct places . |
| 6 | The penalties against fat women are so extreme that women continue to starve themselves and buy useless diet products rather than endure such humiliation and exclusion . |
| 7 | You must check the booking Allocation carefully and raise any queries immediately . |
| 8 | To gain the maximum benefit from each interview ( if you are aiming to learn a proper selection technique rather than treat each interview selection as a one-off event ) you should do a thorough follow-up . |
| 9 | These people may of course want to keep their knowledge secret so as to avoid any involvement in criminal proceedings , which is not helpful to creditors and to credit managers wanting to know what is to be salvaged from the wreck . |
| 10 | With likes of Ken Wright , Roger Gould and Enrique Rodriguez ( nice bow tie , Rico ) , they threw the beer cans away and ran some beauts . |
| 11 | In other words , Sergeant Wilson ( who has since left the force ) agreed to compromise to enhance his career opportunities rather than present any challenge to the system . |
| 12 | The simplest solution might appear to be to ban battery cages altogether and keep all hens free range or in percheries : but this presupposes that these alternatives really are better for the birds . |
| 13 | In short , while the Foreign and Colonial Affairs Ministries discussed with the PTT how to develop broadcast propaganda overseas and counteract that of non-Parliamentary democracies , within France , governments allowed the emergence of a private , alongside the public , broadcasting sector . |
| 14 | We plan to install one of the ‘ Amstrad ’ draft printers so as to provide some draft printing capability as soon as possible , and to consider further the possibility of replacing the heavily-used Epson printer next financial year . |
| 15 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 16 | He came into the Met Office regularly and knew all our names . |
| 17 | The designation is a form of landscape protection only and has little value in nature conservation terms . |
| 18 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 19 | All I do to the Tokais when I get them is put five springs in the back , take the tremolo arm out and tighten all the screws at the bridge and raise the action . |
| 20 | I sorted the orange nylon lines out and did some tying , untangling line from line , knot from knot . |
| 21 | Right come on Chris let's go , in fact run upstairs and put that on your bed quickly , come on , double away better put that woman 's gloves somewhere safe did you take that change that was lying there , well Matt I 'll need some for his dinner , oh , no alright Laura |
| 22 | In a speech on 17 December 1945 Kim stressed the necessity for creating a wide range of party organisations in factories , enterprises and villages with the formulation of suitable criteria for party membership so as to eliminate some of the dubious elements which had recently joined the party . |
| 23 | She dabbed her lips with salt water again and crumbled some of the roasted chicken neck into her mouth . |