Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared back at him now with an indifference that almost rivalled his own . |
| 2 | If you 've forgotten to buy a card and the shops are all closed , simply cut out some funny or pretty pictures from magazines , paste them onto a piece of card and then write your own personalised message inside . |
| 3 | Erm , what you need to do is , if you can , save up all the changes , for one batch and then do them all together . |
| 4 | Counselling the ill is more difficult than counselling the well , not least because of their reduced ability to think clearly , to make judgements , to arrive at sound decisions , to determine on a course of action and generally to fight their own battles . |
| 5 | Only two feet above the glassy water a dozen dug-out canoes are lashed to the side and more join us all the time . |
| 6 | They see their social life as a struggle for personal dignity in a general social framework that daily denies them this dignity . |
| 7 | AND FROM THE RACISM THAT SADLY AFFLICTS US ALL AND LEADS WHITE PEOPLE TO ASSOCIATE INFERIORITY AND DARKNESS , KURTEN 'S RECONSTRUCTION MAKES MORE SENSE , SINCE NEANDERTHALS LIVED IN GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND LIGHT SKIN MAY BE AN ADAPTATION TO LIFE IN MIDDLE TO HIGH LATITUDES . |
| 8 | for about thirty thousand or something like that and then go back to work and just pay your own mortgage off |
| 9 | The most usual way for a musician to do business in Jamaica was through a producer , who would pay the musician a nominal sum for his work and then make his own deals with record companies : a system which traditionally guaranteed disproportionately generous returns for the producer , and next to nothing for the musician . |
| 10 | ‘ He was asked about every act and even made his own suggestions and they were all carefully noted , ’ says a source close to the prince 's office . |
| 11 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 12 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |
| 13 | My wife Jeannie , however , makes jewellery and has made some lovely bits and pieces from my gold ( mind you , she is a perfectly capable panner and often finds her own ! ) . |
| 14 | It may take a long time discussing the parents ' child-rearing philosophy and even discussing their own childhood experiences of discipline to unearth the cause of these deep-seated feelings . |
| 15 | In such cases a written agreement can strengthen your case and perhaps save you some money . |
| 16 | Draw a rough sketch and then translate them all in a permanent fashion to the wall . |
| 17 | He had returned his father 's shirt and now wore his own vest , washed in the tin bath and dried over the kitchen pipes . |
| 18 | Doing as she had bid herself , she walked into the cottage and then spoilt it all by slamming the door . |
| 19 | Record a good speaker on the radio , play back a sentence and then record your own utterance of the same sentence . |
| 20 | Tony bought him a whisky and then bought him another . |
| 21 | The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance . |
| 22 | I never went to one , I 'd never seen a live band that actually wrote their own stuff . |
| 23 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 24 | He conducted a visitation every five years , when he went there and interviewed each individual member of the community and finally gave them all a charge . |
| 25 | Each of these is asked to be part of the community and yet to develop her own specialization . |
| 26 | He came up to my room and obligingly handed me some for my wife , myself and friends . |
| 27 | My boyfriend has a full-time job but barely gives me enough money for the shopping . |
| 28 | They act as go-betweens , representing their department 's best case but also educating their own administrators and professional staff in the realities of a confined budget . |
| 29 | However , because the sun not only participates in the daily rotation of the heavens from east to west but also has its own slow annual motion relative to the stars in the opposite direction , different heliacal risings occur throughout the year . |
| 30 | He was clearly amused by her reaction , his eyes slanting into a lazy , mocking smile that somehow rattled her more than his anger had done . |