Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , any time you read a story , whether it be religious or science fiction , or whatever , in which somebody is taken out of one body and put into another body erm and the story goes , and then was turned into a pig , or whatever , erm , presumably that author has it in mind that you can still identify , that same guy , first in one body and then in the body of a pig . |
| 2 | Although few performers really enjoy working under the glare of high-power lights , their use is sometimes essential , and the most acceptable way to use them for the illumination of small areas is to employ the technique known as bounce-lighting . |
| 3 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 4 | Not , not , terribly sorry Mrs to stop you in full flow , but we have n't got th this money . |
| 5 | An especially strong shower forced us into motion ; we fled , finding shelter under the gable of an apparently derelict croft . |
| 6 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 7 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 8 | Tories and Labour decry each other 's failures to voters who seem to believe , against all experience , that success is their birthright , and that only political stupidity deprives them of it . |
| 9 | However , whatever , the reason why I mention it , I do notice that Green Peace are thinking of , perhaps some members saw it in the press , did you , that Green Peace are making a formal complaint to the European Commission about switching from de-sulphurisation to importing low sulphur coal , and it may be something that we should focus in on as well . |
| 10 | Stanza three 's shockingly different mythology prepares us for ‘ This withered root ’ . |
| 11 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 12 | It is disappointing that so few teachers thought it worth attending to express their views either on the resolutions put forward or to raise other matters . |
| 13 | Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation . |
| 14 | A pleasant stroll through gently wooden slopes brings you to a small clearing of luxury homes … |
| 15 | Discovered in 1953 by Hong Kong herpetologist John Romer , the frog 's exceedingly primitive nature makes it of special interest . |
| 16 | So social scientists interpreted him as a cultural determinist ? |
| 17 | But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind . |
| 18 | Only simple embarrassment prevented her from correcting it . |
| 19 | Lord Brougham believed of Liverpool that : ‘ No minister ever passed his time with so little ill-will directed against himself , or had so much forbearance shown him upon all occasions . ’ |
| 20 | The path then continues straight , towards the pass and here a less distinct path leaves it to the right . |
| 21 | On another occasion he reflected that only hard work saved him from ‘ that melancholic staring into the abyss ’ . |
| 22 | No black faces , only white ones watching her without greeting . |
| 23 | His own journalistic scalps now adorned the walls rather than those of O'Mara — a photograph of the doorknob nose in the company of Mikhail Gorbachev , a flag of the African National Congress , and a TV award so shapeless Dexter imagined it to be modelled on a cow turd . |
| 24 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 25 | This is n't such a bad thing : the Mournes never looked comfortable with so many people tramping them at once . |
| 26 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
| 27 | She complains cheerfully as we enter saying , ‘ Jaz I 've never had so many people kissin' me in all me life , strangers and all , you 'd tink I was in Italy or England or America , God forbid ! ’ |
| 28 | She awoke with her body lazily relaxed , only slight soreness to remind her of what had happened the previous night . |
| 29 | That same feeling of pride and excitement is here today and I use those so so meaningful words to greet you as your National President . |
| 30 | Your notes are not to be imperishable works of art , but merely businesslike tools to help you in your studies and in reaching the standard required by examiners . |