Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 2 | To the majority , the corpse was putrefying matter which formerly housed the soul and spirit ; others were less realistic , seeing in it instead a human being in suspended animation , in a profound sleep beyond our ken , awaiting a miraculous awakening . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean it was merely a study of kinship , ’ he added , seeing before him now the outraged faces of his colleagues at his letting the side down by describing such work as ‘ nothing much , really ’ . |
| 4 | You would n't want to meet her coming towards you down a dark alley . |
| 5 | Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week . |
| 6 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |
| 7 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |