Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You , Sir , ’ he wrote to Sir John Franklin , ‘ fully understand this pleasure particularly when one 's visits are directed to a fresh field abounding with novelties ; if I find my labors as much rewarded here as they have been in V. D. Land , I shall consider myself amply paid . ’ |
| 2 | For some reason my clients nearly always ask : ‘ Where can we put more people ? ’ |
| 3 | My feet just about worked , like heavy blobs at the end of bendy pipe-cleaners , I sat through assembly with all the voices and music floating over me , and every time I closed my eyes I saw Julie lying in the road . |
| 4 | See , my parents hardly ever go . |
| 5 | And as soon as I faced up to that , I realised my fears no longer applied . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The Classic is the talk of the north west angling scene and I cut my holidays short just to take part in the qualifying match at Halsnead Park . ’ |
| 7 | Now my remarks so far have concentrated on the relationships between our three sectors . |
| 8 | It may be an awareness of my married status ( of which my colleagues often jokingly remind me ) , or a way of squaring all my activities with the ethos of the KZ , or a simple boredom with the female face , but now my thrusts of love — so sudden , so hurried , so helpless , so hopeless — are exclusively directed at the source of universal sustenance and fruition . |
| 9 | Somewhat in the same boat may be groups of younger teachers who see education in personal/emotional , or in political terms , and who are feeling their values particularly heavily trodden on by the current educational reforms . |
| 10 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 11 | Its bombs almost invariably devastate towns and property where Protestants are in the majority and its shootings are directed at members of the security forces , who are mainly Protestant . |
| 12 | If we take the attribute which employers most often saw as ‘ essential ’ , willingness/attitude to work ( mentioned by 81 per cent ) , we see that the MSC 's poor rating of — 32 in fact reflects a negative judgement by less than half of employers ( 53 per cent said that young workers are different in this respect and 43 per cent of those said they were worse ) . |
| 13 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 14 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 15 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 16 | But her fingers never quite made contact with the glass . |
| 17 | With the slightest of sighs , Maria put out a hand , her fingers still loosely curled into her palm . |
| 18 | Their strategies therefore still targeted the irrationality of racist beliefs , whereas , as Omi and Win ant 's definition suggests , the fictional or metaphorical status of the category ‘ race ’ in no way undermines its symbolic and social effectuality . |
| 19 | The risk is that the professed desire of Europeans to co-ordinate their policies more closely masks a prospect of joint inaction . |
| 20 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 21 | Old tattered flags hung from the ceiling , their patterns long since faded into the air . |
| 22 | Vasili shook her shoulders violently then slapped her across the face . |
| 23 | Her methods also greatly simplified many of the earlier proofs , a number of them being very important in algebraic geometry . |
| 24 | Seeking through German unity to contribute to the unification of Europe and to the building of a peaceful European order in which borders no longer divide and which ensures that all European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust , |
| 25 | Her whole stance was a silent challenge to him to deny it , but she had to press her lips tightly together to stop them quivering . |
| 26 | Her hands were cold and wet with rain , her eyes less well adjusted to the darkness than his . |
| 27 | She sat up straight , her eyes once more flashing fire . |
| 28 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
| 29 | In the corner where she had fallen when Garty hit her , Jess crooked her knees then slowly pulled herself up . |
| 30 | She took to living in her swimsuit , a colourful sarong tied at her hips , long black hair streaming loose and silken down her slender back , and Damian would watch her with intent eyes as she moved around the house , his eyes eating her up as she grew more and more sensual , her inhibitions almost completely erased by his lovemaking . |