Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 2 | Even where he does show an interest in ‘ education ’ it is , as we have seen , only as a preventive device aimed at the public at large . |
| 3 | The man , wearing just sunglasses to disguise himself , is reaching into a plastic bag where he claims to have a gun and a grenade . |
| 4 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 5 | Most important of all , the importer of goods will not have to submit these goods to duplicate series of tests and certification procedures where it wishes to import a product . |
| 6 | Although everyone seems to have an opinion , it 's not easy to find a clear , authoritative voice . |
| 7 | Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives . |
| 8 | cos bread goes , although she 's got a freezer and a washing machine and everything at the villa , so she 's , she sold her house in Jersey and they 're gon na do the villa up because they , they 've sold it Christmas did n't they ? |
| 9 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |
| 10 | Who to buy it for : Sandra Bernhard ( except she 's got a copy already ) ! |
| 11 | It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope . |
| 12 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 13 | except it 's got a tail . |
| 14 | Strapped on , the Teardrop is much more manageable although it does show a tendency towards neck heaviness . |
| 15 | Although it has announced an intention to provide DCE-conformance with the Windows Remote Procedure Call ( RPC ) , it is not implementing all of DCE 's functionality , only the RPC . |
| 16 | The plan of the family part of the house ( Fig. 8c ) , from either point of view , remains symmetrical , although it has acquired a conservatory to one side , and a range of offices to the other . |
| 17 | Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years . |
| 18 | For the time being UNESCO is unable to send a cultural mission to Iraq to investigate the situation , although it has had a team of experts lined up since July of last year . |
| 19 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 20 | Nick is only a bystander , like the reader , and fairly impartial , although he does have a character of his own and separate events involved in his life , apart from Daisy and Gatsby . |
| 21 | McHale will have to make his final decision in the next couple of days for , although he has reserved a place in the entry list with the Circuit organisers , two of his main mechanics are waiting for his verdict before deciding whether to join the World championship Toyota team on the Safari Rally in east Africa . |
| 22 | He 's not the greatest header of the ball although he has won a corner . |
| 23 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 24 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
| 25 | and he 's in inherited a family home , so he 's got a home to live in , but he does n't earn very much does he ? |
| 26 | Even Adam Sherbourne from Consolidated — the most intelligent person on the panel — does n't understand that one , so he leaves to catch a plane . |
| 27 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 28 | Dr Haines was treating her , so he has issued a death certificate . |
| 29 | Once he has hit a shot it is gone . |
| 30 | Once he has found a group , the male stays with it but at a reasonable distance of perhaps 30 or 40 m ( 100–130 ft ) . |