Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the professional may insist upon controlling the work that he or she does rather than allowing the administrator to impose control . |
| 2 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 3 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 4 | and we know better than to surrender . |
| 5 | But the road that ran from the town , called Théovard , by-passed Les Glycines five hundred yards to the north , and we dismounted rather than run the motor cycle over the pitted lane . |
| 6 | He never gave an explanation and they knew better than to ask , but they guessed it would be a problem connected with his increasing consumption of drink . |
| 7 | More than five years of rebellions and civil war had honed his instincts to a fine edge , and he knew better than to ignore them . |
| 8 | Graham was only a little impatient , and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up . |
| 9 | The marathon four mile trip brought out the best in Keep Talking and he rallied well when challenged by the useful Irish raider High Peak to win by four lengths . |
| 10 | And it does so while providing a perfect fit . |
| 11 | The deployment of a relatively big budget and the use of a really big screen ( Cinerama in major cities , Super Panavision 70 where projection facilities were available ) , together with a show of ‘ serious ’ ideas comparable to printed sci-fi , raised the status of the whole genre , and it has never since sunk back to the level of , say , stalk-and-slash movies in critical regard . |
| 12 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 13 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 14 | Daft thing about it , but I thought rather than hang on I 'll get in there and get off . |
| 15 | She wondered what he meant by that last remark about his brother , so quickly bitten off , but she knew better than to ask . |
| 16 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 17 | Denis made threatening noises , but they knew better than to take him seriously . |
| 18 | But they have all but disappeared in the West . |
| 19 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 20 | But he did more than choke if he , if he inhaled erm , lime |
| 21 | The original release date had been January this year but it took longer than expected to complete the re-write and ensure there were no bugs . |
| 22 | Linen is one of the oldest fibres known and is even stronger than cotton , but it creases badly unless treated with the appropriate finish . |