Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 2 | When I return my headlights sweep over the boss and this woman . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
| 4 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 5 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 6 | The emphasis is rather the effect of the war on an American community ; the final scene , in which survivors sit round a table singing ‘ God Bless America ’ , is crucial , and symbolises the regenerative powers of an America that had survived both Vietnam and Watergate . |
| 7 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 8 | Her lips pout around the filter and her cheeks collapse in as she draws deeply . |
| 9 | Computer-aided learning ( cal ) is , for me , a portmanteau term for all cases in which computers help along the learning process . |
| 10 | I follow the line of the hedge along the side of the road , ducking once as a car drives past on the road ; its headlights sweep along the hedge above me . |
| 11 | Their lives revolve around the home , unlike in earlier cult shows like Dynasty ( the office , the hotel lobby ) or EastEnders ( the community square ) . |
| 12 | Composed of military commanders , political officers and Party officials , their concerns range over the entire panoply of administrative and disciplinary functions , as well as troop control and civil-military relations in the USSR 's 16 Military Districts . |
| 13 | To take one 's finger off the bounding narrative pulse of Crime and Punishment and to open The Possessed — to open it anywhere — is to find oneself out in the sticks once again : the ‘ our town ’ of the novel and the voice relating its affairs bring back the ‘ we ’ of convict life in The House of the Dead and the more sketchy collective of that remote Siberian community outside the prison walls . |
| 14 | In the final analysis , much of the success or otherwise of a policy will depend on which firms carry out the operations . |
| 15 | The various patients ' , reactions to their awakenings fill out the picture . |
| 16 | The general view of the exhibition shows , on the walls , the artist 's head ( passport photo portraits ) , from which tears flow down the Salomonic columns to feed a pool in which float 12 figures with emblems , and on which float five gold spheres . |
| 17 | You learn , first , to inhibit the habitual reaction to certain classes of stimuli , and , second , to direct yourself consciously in such a way as to affect certain muscular pulls , which processes bring about a new reaction to these stimuli . |
| 18 | Time and again the women stressed their loss of independence and with that loss came frustration , insecurity and a sense of worthlessness ‘ commensurate with that which men experience over the loss of their breadwinner status ’ ( Coyle , 1984 , p. 107 ) . |
| 19 | They circle the Earth repetitively and , as the Earth rotates eastwards below their orbital path , their instruments build up a picture of land and sea-surface conditions and the state of the atmosphere . |
| 20 | For example , Robertson ( 1976 ) used real road distance and estimated population for 5 km squares in Argyll to test an algorithm in which services search over the population surface until locations are found which minimize the cost , time or effort involved in people travelling to these services . |
| 21 | Thus Noel and Jose Parry define professionalism as ‘ a strategy for controlling an occupation in which colleagues set up a system of self-government ’ . |
| 22 | The famous passage about the madeleine , the little cake whose associations call back the forgotten scenes of the narrator 's childhood , would have caused the Hartleian in Wordsworth to applaud . |
| 23 | Working men and women , whose lives revolve around the business lunch , and often an evening meal out as well , sigh for good ‘ home-cooked ’ food . |
| 24 | ‘ operations whose implications bring up the question of a girl 's right to privacy about her sexual life . |
| 25 | In the case of the Anglican Church , whose buildings make up the largest group of ecclesiastical structures , there exists a quite involved and considered procedure which is defined by the Pastoral Measure of 1983 . |
| 26 | Unlike its more common relative , E. pungens ‘ Maculata ’ , whose leaves take on a slightly muddy hue as they mature , ‘ Gilt Edge ’ stays a brilliant yellow-cream , and would make a superb contrast with the bright red stems of Cornus alba ‘ Sibirica ’ . |
| 27 | We are all used to the hypocrisy and double standards of the Labour party , whose representatives hang around every factory gate and base saying what terrible things will happen locally . |
| 28 | I just said to my hubby this morning , I said , ‘ The sooner its the Sixth of January and we 've got a they decorations back up the loft and poked all they clogged-up pine needles out the Hoover tube with a Knitting needle and its back to auld claes and parritch the better pleased I 'll be . ’ |
| 29 | She saw his fingers close around the butt of a .45 . |
| 30 | The trio is completed by Dick Vance , the computer ‘ driver ’ , though his activities extend over the whole breadth of keeping the flight data read-out units in working order and developing the programs and electronics generally . |