Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In these examples I have deliberately included the C£s on the 9th fret E string and the 4th fret A string so that you can not play them while holding down a chord shape !
2 It was now about 2157 , and although it had taken just three minutes to use Conquest for the rescue , the transfer to the small boat and handling her while picking up the survivor had required seamanship of a high order .
3 She could do nothing but batten down the conversational hatches and wait until the storm blew itself out .
4 The Goblins , unused to the sea and ignorant of navigation , could do nothing but ride out the storm .
5 Even Nigel Mansell and Nick Faldo , supreme winners that they were , managed to singe themselves while burning up the home straight .
6 Rather does he base his recommendations ( which , in general , are in line with the basic directives of Christianity and Judaism ) on the fact ( as he believes it to be ) that a man who thinks adequately on the matter will see them as pointing out the means to his own deepest heart 's desire of personally fulfilled living .
7 I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire .
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