Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 2 | We 've got one corner of the garden out the front and if the wind 's in the right direction it neatly puts them all together . |
| 3 | Mosley repeatedly argued that his Blackshirt organization was a self-defence force and that although he could have disrupted other political meetings he never chose to do so . |
| 4 | Will you help us provide the basic hygiene and nutritional teaching they so desperately need ? |
| 5 | Ultimately when time reduces our prized telescope to some orphaned lenses adrift in a little heap of metallic oxide we sadly shake our heads over the debris and say ‘ this was a telescope ’ , or , in Pythonesque terms , ‘ this is an ex-telescope ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Worst damn decision I ever made , ’ said John Frome , straightening himself and blinking his eyes . |
| 7 | In order to reconstitute purposeful and meaningful administrative acts we not only need to save the different communicative acts but also to be able to reconstitute their inter-relationships in real time . |
| 8 | She and her husband are members of the National Trust and when visiting stately homes they often come across portraits of those she refers to as ‘ my people ’ ; she has been able to obtain copies some of them . |
| 9 | But of all the damn fighters I ever did see , |
| 10 | In this introductory chapter I therefore want to connect the two themes of the sociological neglect of housework , and the wider issue of the bias against women in sociology as a whole . |
| 11 | Irrespective of their magnitude , whether they are big or small , in each case think about the emotional weight you once gave and still give to them . |
| 12 | To achieve anything like a professional result you still need the services of a designer to create the master pages but this is a once-off requirement for each publication . |
| 13 | It 's just odd words you sometimes |
| 14 | Great wines they may be , but it is hard to define these wines as good sparkling wines and classic Champagnes they most certainly are not . |
| 15 | short sticky tape you never know , the old . . |
| 16 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's an old bike he sometimes uses . ’ |
| 18 | For in supporting rule A five at the C E C by a very slim majority they also supported resolution one five three by an overwhelming majority , which says exactly the opposite to rule A five . |
| 19 | It was a curious ménage : the girl , the uncle , the grandmother — a solitary representative of each generation , like one of those squeezed houses you sometimes see with a single room on each storey . |
| 20 | Now what you want to do in the privacy of your own home in terms of art is one thing , but if I 'm using public money I really need to be able to justify it . |
| 21 | I ai n't had a proper look I just put it on and said , work a few routes out you know where it |
| 22 | As far as what comes into my head , I du n no , I write the worst dribbling shit you ever heard . |
| 23 | If the Diamond Phoenix had been supplied with proper drivers it most probably would have done a little better , overtaking the Western Systems . |
| 24 | When he was winning all the time , people spoke of his alleged meanness and refusal to communicate ; when he fell foul of the Inland Revenue they carefully looked the other way . |
| 25 | Well I suppose you see maybe what they 're trying to do I mean as far as I know I mean previously the Inland Revenue or the valuation office part of the Inland Revenue they actually used to run a scheme where |
| 26 | While for those thrust into a position of ‘ ritual liminality ’ there is the possibility of becoming ‘ men apart ’ , of standing aside and though not necessarily following political alternatives posed by any counter-culture , undertaking the hero 's journey merely by seeking to comment on the social condition they now see with new eyes . |
| 27 | I always used to relate this to the ghostly effect you sometimes get round a figure in a horror film . |
| 28 | In run-of-the-mill performances you often find yourself lamenting the absence of Lerner and Loewe 's songs from My Fair Lady , but in this detailed , absorbing production , Shaw 's verbal music is enough . |
| 29 | I 'm gon na read it through and then I 'm gon na do some German and really get , hang on , all these letters oh so popular Catriona I never read you this , it 's from er my secret admirer . |
| 30 | Since volcanoes composed of similar rock types are also found in a range of climatic environments they also provide the opportunity to compare the effects of climate on the rate and nature of denudation . |