Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 2 | Mum took me back chez Hamish and Tone ; she agreed to pass on my expressions of contrition to my father . |
| 3 | Perhaps my notion of wilderness is romantic and hopelessly out of date , but I have to say that I find paragliding an intrusion . |
| 4 | Perhaps my opinion on morality 's changed , you know , that there is right and wrong and all this and that you 've got to accept people . |
| 5 | It is only my subscription to Punch that stops me from taking a midnight walk off the roof . |
| 6 | I have to say that from my point of view — and this is only my point of view — it is not a page-turner . |
| 7 | But the recognition did n't flash along my neurons in time to activate my legs before the thing exploded in my face with a breathy puff . |
| 8 | When I lock along my collection of phrenology books , including titles such as The Brain and How to Read It , and run my fingers with affection over the porcelain phrenological head that stands on my filing cabinet , I often wonder what future generations will make of today 's psychologists . |
| 9 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 10 | I 've tried to slow down my pattern of speech , I 've tried to simplify my vocabulary , and certain methods of when you 're talking to someone you do n't tower over them , you try and squat to his level or you give instructions in certain ways to certain classes . |
| 11 | I said quickly , putting down my glass of beer . |
| 12 | Well , you can imagine the Colonel at that stage said emphatically ‘ NO ’ , and so my debut into cabaret was dramatically finished . |
| 13 | This may sound bureaucratic and boring but without it there are bound to be anguishing problems of the kind : ‘ I handed in my work on time but it must have got lost in the pile ’ . |
| 14 | It is essentially a simple notion — that we take turns to speak — but explicating it is difficult , as there is an intricate system of rules governing the sequences of sentences we use ( eg which types of question constrain which kinds of answer and the contexts in which they occur ( eg the factors which permit unexpected sequences , such as when Hello is followed immediately by Goodbye , or Goodbye is allowed to precede Hello ) . |
| 15 | The choice of a forester — also made by the author of a thirteenth-century Flemish genealogy — is interesting : the word itself was a new one , having no classical or late-antique Latin form ; perhaps its associations with hunting and riding made it particularly appropriate for a family renowned for its martial skills . |
| 16 | Silvester Horne , in his popular survey of nineteenth-century Nonconformity , admitted , ‘ The easiest accusation to sustain against Nonconformity has been hitherto its tendency to disintegration and division ’ . |
| 17 | We did not condemn empiricism outright , merely its substitution for reality . |
| 18 | This was not a period in which the British suffered defeats gladly , however much their lack of preparation in peacetime might seem to invite them . |
| 19 | The problem with the Hollywood film industry was not so much its desire for profit as its concern with other things , such as power , responsibility and morality . |
| 20 | Naturally their way of living is very different from ours . ’ |
| 21 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 22 | Yet for so long their thoughts on sex and love have been ignored . |
| 23 | For a moment he imagined he was in another world , a simple uncomplicated world : a world where there was no place down below in the valley where men were being prepared for war ; that there was no place in Northumberland where a woman sat in a room all day with only her thoughts for company ; that there was no one called Carrie Smith ; that the world had dwindled and there was only this secluded garden and a secluded house , as had been said , with the hills to the back of it and the river at its feet and two women so unalike , yet alike : so understanding , so thoughtful of each other , and not only of each other , but of him . |
| 24 | And , with his words ringing in her ears , she fled up the stairs , not relaxing until she was warmly cocooned in bed , with only her thoughts for company . |
| 25 | She thought she better buy not only her way into heaven but that of all her husband and relations as well . |
| 26 | Then the maiden alone , with only her melancholy for company . |
| 27 | She slumps , exhausted , moving only her eyes from side to side as she follows our next exchange . |
| 28 | Obviously its date of composition must be later than the last event mentioned — in the case of Exodus , the erection of the tabernacle . |
| 29 | But now , in the main , companies are leaner and fitter ; they have pared down their operations in order to survive . |
| 30 | Privet hedges drooped with the weary strain of keeping in green leaf at the turn of the year when all the other trees had thrown down their leaves in surrender . |