Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only for you it could n't have come to anything . ’ |
| 2 | Dr Neil turned away from inspecting his own bookshelves , said , apropos of what she could not imagine , ‘ You are not English , I perceive , Miss McAllister . ’ |
| 3 | It is a common problem for a woman to undervalue herself , being aware only of what she can not , rather than what she can , do . |
| 4 | It was also essential that he believed he was being cured , because of the need he would face soon for what I can only call ‘ self-help ’ . |
| 5 | You sit there and spend a million dollars on effects to try to make it sound like something you can already go out and buy . |
| 6 | The group of gentlemen who prepared the list and signed the covering letter to Panmure , however , emphasised that unless Panmure wrote the letters in favour of James Milne which they had requested , then their friend would withdraw ‘ & let your declared oposers run away with what they could not , were you either present or your intrest heartily interposed ’ . |
| 7 | It 's just a pity that the castle itself is a little bit indistinct I mean , when you stand away from it you ca n't er you can hardly see the castle there and er , it is an attractive castle , photographed many times but I would just like to see that shown up a little more in the picture . |
| 8 | Then he saw others , similarly bent , all working away at something he could n't make out . |
| 9 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 10 | Before you take to the high street , it is worth spending time with your partner to think carefully about what you will actually need and perhaps more importantly what you both like : it is surprising how much tastes can differ over the smallest of items ! |
| 11 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |
| 12 | If you bought straight from him we would n't be paying money to the galleries , but I can see you 're frightened to go , I said , so there 's an end to it . |
| 13 | But I invite such a geneticist to look carefully at what it can ever mean to speak of genes exerting an influence on a nervous system . |
| 14 | ‘ Major 's so far behind him you ca n't see him . ’ |
| 15 | It towered so far above me I could n't even see the top of it . |
| 16 | Now to me you ca n't beat a better that 's one of the best insurance people I 've ever been with . |
| 17 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 18 | But Venice is full of wonderful things , and even for you I wo n't pretend to dislike it . ’ |
| 19 | Now , part of that might just have purely the ritual that 's associated with things like coronations and investitures , but surely if people had felt so strongly about it they would n't have turned out in such numbers , er to support her . |
| 20 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 21 | And while there are scientific minds like those of Stephen Hawking many steps ahead of us we will always want to listen to their stories of exploration — even if we can only get glimpses of what they are trying to describe . |
| 22 | In this prologue we discuss some of the questions which few beginners seem to have the courage to ask and yet to which they would surely like some kind of answer . |