Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sure , the ambiguous title allows 30 seconds of salacious conjecture , but that double-bluff ‘ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ’ non-chorus scores a direct miss , and the sound of five men bashing around in the darkness in search of a tune merely drains you of the will to live . ’ |
2 | THERE are times when life not only kicks you in the teeth , but follows up with the knee in the groin and the rabbit punch to the back of the neck as well . |
3 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
4 | All employees are issued a with a security card which not only allows them into the building but also stores details of their credit facilities . |
5 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
6 | There are fewer elephants about up here erm and er the issue that obviously concerns me from the development point of view is the is the time scale , is the process rather , that that the planning policy would im would imply . |
7 | But p up to ten miles , that takes you outside the limit and if if you have a new settlement for up to fourteen hundred clients , that patiently takes you outside the Greater York Area as defined by your study . |
8 | Instead Arnold smashes it out of that frightening rough , and not only gets it past the cross-bunkers but lands it pin high just on the edge of the green . |
9 | All you have to do is to be willing to co-operate with the hypnotherapist as he gently takes you through the relaxation exercise to the hypnotic state . |
10 | The main accusation levelled against boundary routing is that the technology does not actually decrease overall complexity of the network , it merely shifts it from the periphery to the central hub . |
11 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
12 | he only puts them on the floor . |
13 | Even forgetting the fact that the Cobra was the fastest accelerating car you could buy at the time , that only puts it between the £21,620 Elan SE and the entry level £26,400 Excel SE , close to the £22,363 Morgan plus eight and even closer to the £23,526 Toyota Supra Turbo . |
14 | Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back . |
15 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
16 | She is building the nest while he jealously guards her against the attentions of other males . |
17 | Joyce confronts us with a piece of apparently inept , uncontextualized , childish language lacking normal " prosaic " logical transitions , and so shocks us into a re-experience ( rather than a reminiscence ) of the childhood consciousness from which the " young man 's portrait " will gradually evolve in his novel . |
18 | An absolute conception of poverty thus alerts us to the fact that health — for some or all of the family — will be bartered in the struggle to meet basic needs . |
19 | It just drives me up the wall . |
20 | It does n't toughen you up , it just turns you into a bag of nerves basically . |
21 | At the moment , she just loves him as a friend . |
22 | Of course , the terrible irony of this is shown later , when Eddie betrays his cousins and the truth of his own words is applied as he ruins his life and finally loses it as a result of being disloyal . |
23 | This finally leads us into a series of other more practical questions . |
24 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
25 | And she like goes up to him quite freely and just kisses him on the lips , you know okay fair enough people have friendships like that but it 's not a kind of kiss on the cheek it is as if there 's something in it , you know , as if always she 's rubbing it into him . |
26 | As Dick comes to know Count Jasper he no longer sees him as a villain and realises that this inscrutable man is in his own way working for the same ends as the conspirators . |
27 | But he was saying you see , what 's happened is the they is n't his he just delivers them for the bloke |
28 | Oh come on , you know him , he 'll just takes us up the woods for the hell of it . |
29 | Dosifey , in his turn , risks much when sung by Nikolai Ohotnikov with a more human , troubled manner than is usual : his Act 1 prayer is beautifully done , but though it is an intelligent idea to seem to lead the Old Believers out of gentleness and a calmly assured faith , the music does ask for the inspired determination that finally takes them into the fire . |
30 | An alternative theory , and one which , if true , must sadden him , is that China no longer regards him as a threat . |