Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 3 | Where I keep all my club things at the end there where the medicine thing is . |
| 4 | After sailing all day , I reached a small island , where I slept that night . |
| 5 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 6 | The view from this room where I write these last pages is small , but it will serve as an epitome of the gentle unravished English landscape . |
| 7 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 8 | When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . |
| 9 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 10 | I visited the local teacher 's centre where I discussed this self-evaluation project and other similar projects with the warden . |
| 11 | What is meant by ‘ the computational mechanisms involved in sensory perception in general ’ will be clarified in the next section , where I discuss some AI ideas bearing on the puzzles about the kingfisher 's perceptual competence that were listed above . |
| 12 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 13 | We accept what they say , but if we talk about our homes — my mum said this or I cooked this — they hardly understand what we are saying . |
| 14 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 15 | Seven hours in the twenty-four , or I function less than my best . " |
| 16 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 17 | He really became able to deal with whatever insecurities he had as an artiste or I hope that 's what it was . ’ |
| 18 | Would you agree with that or I find that hard to believe . |
| 19 | What I 'm looking for is feedback from the clients which say , yeah , these reports are alright as far as they go but really I do n't want all that information or I want this information . |
| 20 | Or I have some vodka in the fridge . |
| 21 | ‘ Neither my brothers or sister or I have any children , ’ said Pakeezah when her mother had finished telling the story . |
| 22 | Was that when we did it , cos I did that with you did n't I in the afternoon , or I did some with somebody |
| 23 | So you 're talking about thirty or I suppose that Three hours each way I suppose . |
| 24 | And weirdest of all , this is the exact same haunting sound — like , a lavish , moody synth swell with ghostly piano tones , Diane — that we hear whenever Sheriff Truman or I discover another lead . |
| 25 | And weirdest of all , this is the exact same haunting sound — like , a lavish , moody synth swell with ghostly piano tones , Diane — that we hear whenever Sheriff Truman or I discover another lead . |
| 26 | can not be denied , but it would seem that man 's instinctive awareness of his mastery of his own destiny , is influenced by an equally instinctive awareness that he can not peacefully and successfully control that destiny unless he can locate , or himself create some supreme form of guiding influence which is recognised by all . |
| 27 | ‘ Mind noo where ye hing that |
| 28 | Go , get your mum or somebody to get all your paperwork together and go to the C A B. |
| 29 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 30 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |