Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell . |
| 2 | On the other hand it can be argued that the sauropods like Brachiosaurus were so large , and with a relatively small surface area through which to cool compared with their enormous volume , that their cooling rate could have been slow enough to allow them to sustain more continuous activity than smaller , living reptiles . |
| 3 | ‘ A hospital is a system designed to enable me to treat as many patients as possible with the aid of specialised equipment , nursing care , etc . |
| 4 | Although it may seem like folly to invest in such buildings , many of them make perfectly good homes and buyers would be helping to preserve Britain 's heritage . |
| 5 | Aye , so you end up marking it then and er , well she did , she got me to go there second time , and he said well you ca n't you see er |
| 6 | Papal actions , too , appeared to add further proof : after 1337 , except in 1362 and 1375 , popes no longer taxed the clergy for the benefit of the king in England , though at that time they were certainly enriching the French monarch by clerical taxes ; and while successive French kings readily obtained papal dispensations which enabled them to contract politically advantageous matches , Edward on two critical occasions — in the 1340s and 1360s — was denied such benefits . |
| 7 | I think he just wants to keep putting it off ; he might be frightened of me gaining too much independence , or he might simply be scared that I 'll kill myself the way a lot of youths seem to when they get a bike . |
| 8 | So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood , well they had me climbing over three fence things , all like them metal you know like them metal fences at wood ? |
| 9 | The University as a whole contains well over fifty teachers of history , who between them provide nearly ninety courses — thereby offering students a breadth of choice equalled by only three other British universities . |
| 10 | When a protozoon divides , its two offspring have almost the same numbers as the parent , but one of them has just one number augmented by 1 and the other has just one number decreased by 1 . |
| 11 | Passed me test about twelve years ago . |
| 12 | I am pleased to say that later in life , Ralph and I became very close friends . |
| 13 | But the problem I became very angry years ago with that because , I mean Irish Close and we had the three of you we found that she 'd , she just kept on telling us off . |
| 14 | As we saw under Beliefs ( see page 21 ) it is easy to fall prey to some recurring unrealistic thoughts or beliefs which cause you to feel upset whenever they are violated so , either while you are being hindered by an unproductive feeling or after an experience where you are hindered , or when you feel vulnerable to the onset of an unproductive feeling , ask yourself : ‘ How can I make more effective use of this present moment ? ’ |
| 15 | And I expended so much energy making it beautiful for you ! ’ |
| 16 | Through the Second Son I asked as many questions as I thought sensible and it did n't sound like any malaria I had ever heard of . |
| 17 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 18 | I read only last week , for instance , that the N S P C C is suffering severely from the recession and higher running costs , and I 'm sure they 're not alone . |
| 19 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 20 | I did n't have any more whiskey as I needed to think , so I made even more tea and settled on the chair again by the fire , lit a cigarette and started to work my way through the file again . |
| 21 | During that time I made over 45 phone calls to vets , zoos , aquariums , fishkeepers , garden centres , and local authorities — all to no avail . |
| 22 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 23 | I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said . |
| 24 | I made so many mistakes about you . |
| 25 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 26 | Living , as I did then , in the country seldom coming into London , I made only rare visits to the crammed and cramped little shop , and sought , as always , something that was out of print , lost , or printed the year before , . |
| 27 | I made very little money , just enough to run my car . |
| 28 | " So I made this little bite for you myself . " |
| 29 | Consider in this connection the point I made earlier that comprehension is necessarily incomplete and dependent on purpose . |
| 30 | ‘ I averaged about five queers a day . |