Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
2 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
3 | ‘ They will merely make it easy for the Government to mobilize the military and send the settlers deeper into the area ’ . |
4 | Her stomach and oviduct do not have muscles which can contract and so expel her young as a mammal 's womb has . |
5 | If we sign a publishing deal in conjunction with a record deal , we usually make the deals co-terminous. so , if we only make one single with a band , we do n't keep the publishing on that act forever . |
6 | But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate . |
7 | Whereby he , had obviously made it clear from the start |
8 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
9 | Like many animals which only produce one young at a time and may not breed every year , individuals are potentially very long lived , fifty or sixty years may not be unusual for some . |
10 | On sight of them , he jumped down and first helped Aggie , then Millie up , and lastly squeezed himself corner-wise into the seat , took up the reins , and shouted , ‘ Gee up ! there . ’ |
11 | They have warm blood and so do their young inside the eggs . |
12 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
13 | The realization eased my shock a little — enough to make me aware of the sense of violence building up around me . |
14 | When the level of parenting available to a child is bad enough to make it appropriate for the state to intervene on his or her behalf , long-term planning to ensure continuing of good-quality substitute parenting should be essential . |
15 | Taskopruzade includes in his account , however , between Molla Husrev 's appointments on the death of Hizir Bey and his departure for Bursa , a considerable amount of material more or less related to Molla Husrev 's activities in these capacities , enough to make it improbable in the extreme that he held the offices for so short a period . |
16 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
17 | The instances where one can most easily make oneself aware of the distinction are perhaps the ambiguous phrases where the same adjective in construction with the same noun can be understood in either way with a consequent effect on the meaning of the whole phrase . |
18 | Their tiny eyes , rubbery sucking mouths and writhing bodies scarcely make them attractive from a human point of view . |
19 | So I mean perhaps they 'd be better off dead , just keeping them alive in a state of sickness or in coma or something of this sort — there was a great discussion about this and that erm you see not even life is the ultimate good in a sense , you see , at some point death is better . |
20 | The wind was already driving them clear of the shore as he raised the sails . |
21 | The thing is we did it right , we did it in the nappy , then we fucking put him spread-eagled on a bench and me mate ran off to get the shaving kit stuff and this fucking this people who 's erm , looking wom , girls in there and everything , real fucking pissed up |
22 | For most schools , there is nothing new about this thinking : TVEI has already made them familiar with the concepts of cross-curricular dimensions ( such as equal opportunities , independent learning ) skills and competences ( such as literacy , oracy , numeracy , computer literacy , and the less obvious visual literacy ) and themes ( such as health education , careers education and guidance , environmental and economic education and — increasingly — citizenship ) . |
23 | He said he had already made it clear to the convention that he wanted to establish a good relationship with COSLA and local government , and to make a new start after a period of expenditure difficulties . |
24 | ‘ Go and see who it is , will you , there 's a duck , ’ requested Constance , who had just made herself comfortable on the swinging seat . |
25 | Napoleon III had already found it useful as a place where a few quiet days might be spent with a friend . |
26 | We just keep him busy on the racecourse and he runs again at Goodwood next weekend . ’ |
27 | However , since October 1986 this requirement has been abolished , the Bank of England no longer deeming it appropriate in the newly deregulated capital market . |
28 | The rebel republic has already declared itself independent from the Soviet Union and President Gorbachev threatened grave consequences if its parliament does n't renounce the decision . |
29 | Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna . |
30 | You ca n't just leave it open at the end . |