Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not investigating the murder of Miss Beatrix Abberley , but I shall certainly pass on my tentative conclusions to the Sussex Police . |
| 2 | I was not , for once , wearing my battledress trousers , but had put on my uniform skirt with my battledress top . |
| 3 | I will try to slant my handwriting to be more adult like , I will try to get many merit points , I will try to get at the top sets for every lesson you are in the top sets for every lesson do well in them , I want to carry on my good progress in the sports area , I do many sports now and I want to do more |
| 4 | If I may put on my nationalistic hat for a moment , one issue which concerns us greatly in Wales is the disproportionate cut in regular and volunteer troops . |
| 5 | On 16 April , the day of the vigil , I put on my smart suit for the last of the interviews and went into work to look through the papers . |
| 6 | Why , Mummy , you know what you always say when I put on my red mack with the hood over my head ! |
| 7 | But do n't dilly-dally for too long ; once it 's published we are all going to look a little risible if we have made no adjustments to what is after all known as being predominantly my own design of gallery . |
| 8 | This afternoon I made what is perhaps my last visit to ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 9 | " Only my deep devotion to you sir , and a thought for my future acceptance at Court , prevents me from repaying the compliment . " |
| 10 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 11 | This is only my second season of fishing and I 'm learning all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ Our visit to Debbie this year was only my second time in Italy . ’ |
| 13 | I had packed my case in a state of some excitement , taking only my best clothes with me . |
| 14 | Only my slippered footsteps on the stairs , the tiles . |
| 15 | I went for an audition to his flat , and I took along my little piece of paper and music score and everything . |
| 16 | round and down my only pair of tights , |
| 17 | And I could hardly force down my fourth slice of toast and marmalade . |
| 18 | So my small window with its curtains prim |
| 19 | So my first act on Indian soil was to telex a friend at Weatherbys , the British racing bureaucrats , to get them to explain the facts of life to the Bombay Turf Club . |
| 20 | Her own power and presence as a speaker was perhaps her greatest asset in converting audiences . |
| 21 | But perhaps her greatest achievement with the chimps at Gombe has been to show how astonishingly close they are to humanity — and so to narrow the gap between us and the rest of the animal world . |
| 22 | The sensual appraisal was mixed with a hint of amusement which could have been in response to her apparent coyness , or perhaps her short-skirted dress with its modest round neckline was the cause , its clash of riotous colours outrageous , orange running into scarlet into crimson with small touches of hot pink . |
| 23 | But perhaps her main reason for staying put was that , if she accepted what was plainly a generous offer , she would feel herself placed under some kind of an obligation and put morally in his debt . |
| 24 | The chargé , Everett Drumright , countered by reminding Rhee that the ECA was spending more than 100 million dollars in Korea at present and had perhaps its largest staff in Korea . |
| 25 | Perhaps its wider implementation in early pregnancy should be an aim of all obstetric departments . |
| 26 | For many people , singing or playing at services is perhaps their only link with the Church , and it may well prove to be a temporary one . |
| 27 | The books of Roald Dahl are in the group of books that , due to their appeal to young readers , and perhaps their iconoclastic treatment of the adult world , are suspect as far as critics and prize panels are concerned . |
| 28 | Thus if people are trying to decide whether the use of human foetuses for experimentation , and perhaps their deliberate production for this purpose , is morally acceptable , no amount of factual knowledge will settle the matter of itself . |
| 29 | The P.C.A. invoke this immunity as perhaps their main reason for asserting that the implied undertaking should not be varied in this case . |
| 30 | The last straw for the soldiers was not so much their own suffering as the perception that the home and hearth which , ostensibly , they were fighting to defend , was itself under threat : ‘ You would think they would come to some terms when they see the country in that state . ’ |