Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker stares at me or rather at a spot on the wall to the left of my head . |
| 2 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 3 | In the quality of their enthusiasm there is nothing to choose between them or indeed in the sums of money they are anxious to spend . |
| 4 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 5 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 6 | The second came when Bennett and Carter both went for the ball , which bounced off the pair of them and again into the net . |
| 7 | The latter — that is , those living with spouses and with younger people — are most likely to obtain support from those living with them and little from the state . |
| 8 | With fewer defence contracts around , American aircraft manufacturers such as Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas have been pressing Boeing to redirect subcontracting work towards them and away from the Japanese . |
| 9 | The serjeant rubbed his chin and looked at them and then at the friar , sucking in air noisily through his blackened teeth . |
| 10 | You know with the and when she does n't know where she 's going to get enough money to feed , clothe them and especially at a time like now , when all these adverts are on television for , you know the toys that children want , and they just have n't the ability to provide those those things for the children , much as they would want to do it . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've read most of them and am of the opinion they do the author a disservice . |
| 12 | However , she felt that this manifested itself nor only in the kinds of statements made and questions posed in interviews but also in day-to-day work in the school . |
| 13 | Make a mental note of the things you find are most important to you and also of the things you habitually do that could perhaps go without too much hardship because they are not an essential part of your well-being and happiness . |
| 14 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |
| 15 | Now the presidency and his executive branch became a political directorate , which increasingly aggregated political power within itself and away from the legislature . |
| 16 | in education the introduction of the Local Management of Schools will pass many of the decisions affecting individual schools to the school itself and away from the local education authority ; |
| 17 | But a causal circumstance , as specified earlier ( p.46 ) , most certainly does not include all of the causal history of itself and hence of the effect . |
| 18 | However , the latest amendments to the Building Regulations require much higher standards of insulation than ever before and have also belatedly recognised the problems that over-insulation can cause as far as condensation is concerned — both inside the house itself and also within the building 's structure . |
| 19 | Towards the end of the month the military launched a series of air attacks on LTTE positions in Jaffna town itself and elsewhere on the peninsula . |
| 20 | This research project aims to carry out the first national random sample of Conservative party members in order to explore some of the most important questions concerning their role and importance both within the Conservative party itself and additionally within the wider political system . |
| 21 | Sometimes he was thinking of his model , sometimes of the mixing of his pigments , his tone , his oils ; sometimes of the flesh itself and sometimes of the absorbent canvas . |
| 22 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 23 | There is also infiltration of polymorphonuclear and mononuclear cells in the wound and sometimes in the plug itself and interestingly along the blood vessel near the wound ( Wester et al , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
| 25 | The employer contended that the benefit derived from the employee 's invention of a new valve , for use in steel-making , should not be linked to the patented article itself but rather to the extensive development work expended on it by him after the application had been filed with the Patent Office . |
| 26 | The notification must be made not only to the EC-listed company itself but also to the competent authority ( in the case of the UK , probably the London Stock Exchange ) . |
| 27 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 28 | On 11 May 1559 Knox preached his great and wholly inflammatory sermon in St John 's Kirk in Perth , producing mob riot not only in the church itself but also in the Black and Grey Friars and the Carthusian monastery , all of which were sacked . |
| 29 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 30 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |