Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all the macros together on one page , someone doing accounts where they only want some of the standard sheets , can just choose those that are relevant . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got to decide whether it 's … freer atmosphere and rowdyism or silence and total obedience , because I do n't think you … have any feelings towards somebody in schools where you just have to sit in silence in sort of neat rows … |
| 3 | I hate subjects where you just have to fill your head with facts . |
| 4 | Since use of land for domestic and industrial purposes is largely incompatible with clean water , potable supply rivers tend to be found in rural settings where they also have considerable amenity value . |
| 5 | MANSON 'S SOLO LP , featuring songs that he originally presented to Byrds producer Terry Melcher in the hope of landing a major record deal . |
| 6 | We are such thoroughly visual animals that we hardly realize what a complicated business seeing is . |
| 7 | Wild rabbits can be kept in captivity and eventually tamed , and it is , in fact , because this has happened through the centuries that we now see so many variations . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 9 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 10 | So much of him was drawn into his eyes that he never heard the drumming of hooves cross the plateau from the ramp , or the rattle of the chains as the drawbridge was lowered in haste . |
| 11 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 12 | She was pale and willowy , with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see . |
| 13 | But it was only when I punched through the thick , creamy crest and the rainbow mist cleared from my eyes that I finally gave up all hope . |
| 14 | I was really pleased to get so much in the way of useful comment and feedback — a lot of it bringing up incidental considerations that we clearly have n't yet given enough thought to . |
| 15 | Erm and these are the fairly brief er Chairman I think , I am sorry for disappointing Mr because because erm I main properties but erm we are basically I think sort of more or less agreed parties that we actually want this . |
| 16 | Oddly , he finds that about 70 per cent of his clients end up buying very different homes than they originally intended . |
| 17 | Did you try out more walks than you eventually used ? |
| 18 | His public voice was richer in its Southern tones than normal and he was delivering his words in the slow , measured cadences that he normally employed on the floor of the Senate . |
| 19 | The higher vertebrates , fossil mammals and dinosaurs in particular , have been described in so many books that they sometimes seem to have as much flesh and blood as any animal in the zoo . |
| 20 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 21 | If Ivanov was a spy , then I am sure he obtained far more strategic information by legitimate methods than he ever did by covert means . |
| 22 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 23 | When I see a spider 's web , I no longer see the sinister aspects that I once saw . |
| 24 | These parts are superbly realised by the cast ; Clive Francis , James Grout , Sarah Badel , Richard Huw and Lucy Scott all giving the sort of lived-in and clearly progressing performances that you rarely find in the same play . |
| 25 | Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today . |
| 26 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 27 | He screamed back at her some choice words that he usually saved for the rent collector . |
| 28 | When , rather later , for reasons that are not understood and are the subject of much profitable speculation , the dinosaurs ( with the exception of the group of dinosaurs that we now call birds ) went extinct , they went extinct all over the world . |
| 29 | There will be occasions , though , when you will need to produce the best-looking pictures that you possibly can — perhaps of an important family event . |
| 30 | I would n't like to be stuck up in the city and have an being forced to buy people lots of Christmas presents that I just ca n't afford . |