Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 2 | He had a way of looking at people as though they amused him , just like you might look at the antics of white mice in a cage . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll tell you , ’ she said , ‘ but first both of you will listen to what I have to say . ’ |
| 4 | Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony . |
| 5 | There are other areas , particularly to I 'd accept to either to the south or to the north east where a new settlement could more easily be integrated into the existing landscape framework . |
| 6 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 7 | But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 8 | But you 're stuck with it , and I 'm stuck with it and there 's nothing either of us can do about it . |
| 9 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |