Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 32 | McLeish surprised himself as well as her . |
| 33 | The people backing it ‘ bunkered ’ ( disappeared with the money ) and as Producer Tiller felt morally bound to pay off all the artistes himself as well as to find their return fares . |
| 34 | These precious and fragile masterpieces in ‘ Florentine Drawing in the Age of Michelangelo ’ , which include works by the master himself as well as Leonardo , Raphael , Pontormo , Bronzino and other top names of the Italian Renaissance , will be shown in the Sainsbury Centre 's environmentally controlled exhibition space , its lighting system specially designed to display such sensitive material . |
| 35 | The content of the poem ought to be taken with several pinches of salt , partly because it belonged to the genre of boasting poem known as the gap which was a standard form of troubadour verse , and partly because William liked to mock himself as well as others . |
| 36 | Technically admirable , in that it saved the peasant from himself as well as from his oppressors , colonization demanded great expenditure to bring the land above the level of subsistence farming — an expenditure the liberal state of the nineteenth century could neither approve in principle nor afford in practice . |
| 37 | In himself as well as in her . |
| 38 | If he cut it below himself his object was presumably to save himself as well as his leader . |
| 39 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 40 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 41 | No , I 'm sort of I think he confused himself as well as confusing me slightly |
| 42 | The company recently valued its brand names , which as well as Spear & Jackson include Eclipse hacksaws , in readiness for a hostile takeover . |
| 43 | It 's a lively and cosmopolitan resort , which as well as being scenic , offers enormous potential to the sports enthusiast . |
| 44 | The town has many shops and pavement cafes , which as well as serving delicious cold beer , offer sinfully fattening cakes , pastries and ice-creams . |
| 45 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 46 | The teacher , too , as a fonctionnaire or civil servant , also has authority , which as well as the requirement to deliver to pupils something more or less resembling the words in the programme , includes also the authority to interpret , modify , supplement and extend . |
| 47 | The town 's main attraction is a thermal lake ( one of the largest such lakes in the world ) which as well as being therapeutic is delightful to swim in . |
| 48 | While the company was later to compromise on this method of operation , cyanide understandably enough having had its share of bad press , by suggesting gravity extraction ( which as well as being cleaner was also cheaper ) as a technical fix to the opposition to cyanide , the opposition had by then extended its attack to issues such as blasting , dust pollution and the contradiction between the short-term benefits mining would bring and the long-term development of the area threatened by mining . |
| 49 | In order to defeat an enemy who was always likely to be stronger in conventional military terms , the argument continues , what was required was a revolutionary war based upon a social transformation which as well as enthusing the population of Republican Spain might also have inspired to revolution that of the enemy zone . |
| 50 | In early September 1666 , the old city of London was devastated by the Great Fire , which as well as destroying thousands of secular buildings left old St Paul 's with severe structural damage , and no fewer than eighty-seven of the capital 's parish churches gutted or in ruins . |
| 51 | The launch of a new book , Winds of Change — living with the greenhouse effect in October marks the beginning of a weather project which as well as the publicly available book , will include a series of " weather project packs " for primary and secondary education and a TV programme . |
| 52 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 53 | I 'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut , someone knocked . |
| 54 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 55 | Andy has a party that night , partly for me and partly because his pal Howie is leaving for a job on the rigs the following day . |
| 56 | That was the way we became his followers , the way we got saved , it 's the way we continue , it 's the way and it 's the only re the only method by which we will ever stand before him and he will usher us into his presence to stand eternity with him , through his grace and as we see others , not in a sense of condemnation , not in a sense of self righteousness or pointing the finger , as we see others we can say with that man of old who , as he watched the , the man being dragged , to the , to the gallows , there but for the grace of God , goes I , goes me and there but for God 's grace , think of that most , that worse condition that you know , think of that person who has messed their life up more than any body else and er , who has made a total wreck of it , there but for the grace of God is you and there 's me , oh thank God for his grace . |
| 57 | He damn near bankrupts me and all but gets me arrested . |
| 58 | No no no no no there 's about five , five blokes and me and then if Laura and Giles can go |
| 59 | I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more . |
| 60 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |