Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already emphasized the value of coins as evidence ; among other things they sometimes reveal the number of minters at work in a city , and so give us a hazy but valuable indication of the relative size of the towns of a kingdom . |
| 2 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 3 | Irishmen had long used it to denote ‘ complete ’ or ‘ permanent ’ , and Irish labourers brought it to Lancashire ; Turner did not invent the term , but merely gave it a new and more specialist application . |
| 4 | He not only gave us a basic and very sound idea of the golf swing but enlisted the help of a young and enthusiastic local club professional . |
| 5 | ‘ Knowledge , ’ he insisted lightly , ‘ I have to confess that I still find you an unusual and delightful companion — an astonishingly beautiful young woman ; and while I watched you in Wexford market I felt — drawn . |
| 6 | So the forward , function is Y equals X squared , which always gives you a positive and then the function comes back , it 's coming back that way , |
| 7 | Still leaves me a hundred and fifty ahead of her like , you know . |
| 8 | As for yours truly , yes , there is someone who I met quite recently , who probably needs me no more than I need her , someone who brings out my poetic streak , and makes me believe in the little people . ’ |
| 9 | It would also save her a long and weary trudge along that endless winding lane . |
| 10 | Although the hotel is fairly new , it is built in the traditional chalet style and the use of wood panelling throughout gives it a mellow and warm atmosphere . |
| 11 | We widened the steps slightly to make them a secure and comfortable width to walk and wheel a barrow down . |
| 12 | Pump Court Chambers started putting on the seminars only last year and they now hold them every three or four months . |
| 13 | ‘ But he 's done well and hopefully he now sees it the same as we do and we will see him on the bench in our next league game . ’ |
| 14 | His demonstration nowadays satisfies us no more than that of Descartes . |
| 15 | The antiquary Baker unfortunately gave her a brief and dismissive notice in his topographical history of the county in 1822 [ Baker , 1 , 647 ] . |
| 16 | Could you all sit down ’ — here she definitely shot me a disdainful and slightly triumphant look — on the FLOOR ! ’ |