Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 2 | But if someone goes past and says , ‘ Hey , look at you — sexy ! ’ then that 's horrible , a real pain , you feel self-conscious . |
| 3 | Someone looks closely and cuts it open to see what comes out . |
| 4 | Lord Reid went on to say that the reason that the court will not enforce a restraint which goes further than affording protection to the legitimate interests of a party is because too wide a restraint is against the public interest . |
| 5 | A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems . |
| 6 | The overpowering , sickly sweet smell is all that remains of a way of life , or a form of life , which has all but disappeared . |
| 7 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 8 | As will be seen in the remaining chapters , a particular form of Irish catholicism known as monopoly catholicism has assisted in the concrete success of the mix of the beliefs with economic beliefs in capitalism , ownership of land , and inheritance , helping to bring the elements to an explicit formulation in the 1937 Irish constitution , which has ever since shown considerable resistance to reformulation . |
| 9 | This one is knitted in a linen-mix yarn which washes well and feels especially soft to touch . |
| 10 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
| 11 | For full walk continue forward across moorland on prominent track which ascends gently and passes stone table after ½ mile . |
| 12 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 13 | As far as I am aware , no other country , certainly none in which my company operates , so prizes the stiff upper lip , rigid control of emotions , and ‘ politeness ’ which conceals rather than reveals , than the British . |
| 14 | When the theme has been decided , she goes away and prepares a design . |
| 15 | She turns away and lays a gentle finger on Rainbow 's still trembling cheek . |
| 16 | She sits there and answers the telephone basically . |
| 17 | She sits there and does them twice as fast as me . |
| 18 | When the ‘ meaning ’ theist believes , he or she lives within and reacts to the same world as the unbeliever . |
| 19 | The only person there not doing this is the cat-hater , who looks away and keeps very still , trying to be ignored by the feared animal . |
| 20 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 21 | Shabby , he 'd thought , and plain , so that he was taken aback by the neatly-rounded woman who answered his knock , a most presentable person in a dark , well-cut woollen dress with what looked like a gold brooch at the neck , her smooth oval face miraculously ironed of the creases he remembered , her mouth smiling the serene welcome of a woman who has no reason to expect trouble from a knock at her door , a woman who eats well and sleeps well and can settle all her bills . |
| 22 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ she says firmly and turns over on her side . |
| 23 | He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become . |
| 24 | She inhales deeply and goes on . |
| 25 | She smiles serenely and moves on . |
| 26 | In fact , she will have to carve her own niche when she gets there and discover where she can be most useful at Dalek Hospital , where the unit is based , without treading on anyone else 's toes . |
| 27 | All you got ta do , you got ta get from there to there to there and the one who gets there and gets a hundred thousand or whatever it is in n it ? |
| 28 | Highly responsible , she moves only when feeling secure and operates within conventional lines . |
| 29 | We do operate a customer loyalty scheme , whereby any existing borrower who moves home and remortgages with us is entitled to a one per cent discount for one year . ’ |
| 30 | She walks away and poufs her tail out like that . |