Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 2 | He also had a real enjoyment of brief , casual relationships , sexual or otherwise ; one of his gay friends remarked to me that even with a passing infatuation , a pick-up , John never tried to impress people with who he was , never used the glamour of his position to dazzle them , but was interested most in finding out who they were , what kind of person . |
| 3 | He told me that out of every 100 contacts a salesman found one prospect , and out of every ten prospects he should , on average , secure one sale . |
| 4 | She told them that apart from a white jumper she never wore the colour at all . |
| 5 | When Lili came to stay the emphasis shifted slightly , away from me and on to the strange woman . |
| 6 | No possibilities here to warm to any feeling of myself as " clever " ; the aching question instead was why the divine hand had seen fit to bestow these talents on me and not on the next child . |
| 7 | What formula are we going to find to get the ordinary people of Ulster to vote on real issues which concern them and not on the entrenched sectarian issues into which we are brainwashed . |
| 8 | Each of the batsmen has had his moments , unfortunately not enough of them and not at the same time to a sufficient degree . |
| 9 | People who own a property have more freedom to engage in the ‘ all-American leisure style ’ if their house belongs to them and not to a public or private landlord . |
| 10 | Boys flowed past them and on into the next gallery . |
| 11 | I went after them and in through the huge door . |
| 12 | Now nice abbreviation for thought patterns is thop T H O P when we talk about thought patterns or thops a method of gathering ideas a meth a method of getting things down on paper so we do n't lose them but not in a linear way in a spatial way a right brain activity . |
| 13 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 14 | Well we done about seventeen of them but mainly on the super mail side but we stick to the one sort of with |
| 15 | It is a creature of the Secretary of State for Wales and the right hon. Gentleman has shown that its first responsibility is to him and not to the local community . |
| 16 | Once you were Wigg 's enemy — and this was a judgement reached by him and not by the other person — there was no pursuit and no hostility that he would abandon ; but I remained an affectionate friend because of the other side of his character , which would not even be suspected by those with whom he was in controversy . |
| 17 | His deliberately quiet voice , and the apparent detachment with which his hands were moving over her body , frightened her and yet at the same time heightened the eroticism of the moment . |
| 18 | ‘ He did n't have to do that , ’ I said , squeezing past her and on to the next flight of stairs to my flat . |
| 19 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
| 20 | Once a smaller one buzzed by like a transparent bumble bee , below him but still above the tallest buildings . |
| 21 | The young man 's betrothed is related to him but only in the seventh degree . ’ |
| 22 | If the women knew him , there would be someone else who knows him as well in the same capacity . |
| 23 | Nothing had struck him as out of the ordinary apart of course from his wife 's news about the Rector , communicated to him around tea-time . |
| 24 | ‘ He seems to be working hard enough and studying , ’ Rose tried to reassure him as always from a careful distance . |
| 25 | For example , an animal may be injured and it may be under anaesthetic ; now the welfare of an individual which is under anaesthetic because of the injury — because of the damage to it or perhaps of the reduced life-expectancy — is less good than that of an individual which is not injured . |
| 26 | This very brief motion I 've discussed with the convenor who will accept it and also with the general secretary of worl of the board of the world mission who was ready also to co-operate with it . |
| 27 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 28 | ‘ But even if you knew beforehand who was going to get — say — the fifth plate , how could you put poison on it and not on the other plates ? ’ |
| 29 | The Communist Party still had less than 6,000 members at the end of 1934 but the balance within the Left was beginning to move towards it and away from the disintegrating ILP . |
| 30 | I often hear and read stories of anglers spending weeks on end in search of Fenland zander with very little to show for it and yet with a little thought they could be catching on a regular basis . |