Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 2 | Hannibal was also the object of some sort of pseudohistorical tale of which a papyrus has preserved a piece that as far as I know has never been connected with the oracle transmitted by Antisthenes . |
| 3 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 4 | The field of art and design education represents a very broad spectrum of study and as far as it is possible to distinguish between ‘ art ’ and ‘ design ’ the former is generally used to denote painting and sculpture and the latter is concerned with the production of graphic material , three-dimensional or textile/fashion artefacts by hand or machine processing . |
| 5 | ‘ The turning point was the penalty immediately after half-time and then again when we went 12–3 ahead . |
| 6 | The written word always has a special sanctity and more so if it is from a contemporary source , but it needs to be examined with the same ruthless and objective scrutiny as given to the archaeological evidence . |
| 7 | Plants will be excavated , no matter how well-rooted , the only possible exception being the Java fern and only then if it 's securely attached to wood or rocks . |
| 8 | It 's the highway and as fast as we can go . ’ |
| 9 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 10 | Put yo put your foot up y it 's about time for Home and Away now so you 've got ta get that on |
| 11 | John , like Clement , worked hard to secure the king at home and abroad so that he might one day embark on the crusade : the barons , the Scots , and the French were all pressured by John on Edward 's behalf . |
| 12 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 13 | Time is money in the City and few people are worth an hour unless it 's over lunch and only then if you 're involved in a takeover bid . |
| 14 | ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid . |
| 15 | yeah because the person er who 's job it is to deal with the sulks for want of a better phrase there is not is preferring not to tackle the issue because as far as she 's concerned it 's not affecting the efficiency of the office , that 's what I 'm trying to say and it 's not , in fact it 's added to the efficiency of the office if anything . |
| 16 | ‘ I treat you like a child because as far as I can see you are one . ’ |
| 17 | I wish you two lots over there would get your act together so that people who chair the meetings were of the right calibre for a chairman and not just because it was their turn . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've taken a bit of stick and rightly so because we 've had a bad week and had two disappointing performances . |
| 19 | Get into a jam with , for example , a knot in the yarn , bad knitting and so on and you will be in real trouble . |
| 20 | Arrange the right papers for me at the Legation , travelling money and so on and I 'll come the low-risk way by rail . |
| 21 | And we used to arrange football teams , cricket teams , during the before you went into school , playtime and very often when you came out of school . |
| 22 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |
| 23 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 24 | So , take your fingers from the outside and move them in towards the nose and round so that you do n't stretch the skin even more . |
| 25 | The lessons took place during the evening and then only after I had finished my regular school work for the day . |
| 26 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 27 | No I sha n't be getting my cheque book out on that basis because as far as I 'm concerned the thing would still not belong to the city . |
| 28 | They reach the end of the pool without difficulty but very slowly for they must march in step with their weaker and shorter fellows . |
| 29 | Peter suggested keeping on until half an hour into the rush hour but no longer as it looked like being particularly crowded today . |
| 30 | The world we can build of philosophy can include both music and poetry , and in addition religion and art and much else so it is far greater in extent then poetry or music alone . |