Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " 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| 2 | Perhaps my notion of wilderness is romantic and hopelessly out of date , but I have to say that I find paragliding an intrusion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Once I began to put together my chain of companies , I had certain responsibilities to the people I employed , ’ Julius said in the same curt tone . |
| 5 | In 1912 he insisted , against opposition from the foreign ministry , that Prince Lichnowsky be appointed to the London embassy , saying " I send only my ambassador to London , who has my confidence , obeys my will , fulfills my orders with my instructions " . |
| 6 | It is only my subscription to Punch that stops me from taking a midnight walk off the roof . |
| 7 | I have to say that from my point of view — and this is only my point of view — it is not a page-turner . |
| 8 | ‘ The will was made about a year ago and this is what it amounts to : ‘ The shop premises and stock and all assets pertaining to the business together with the contents of my studio excepting only my tube of Winsor blue to my niece and dear friend Cathy Carne ’ . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Out of this absurd impasse came the idea of my writing down my version of Tom Watt 's story . |
| 13 | Coming here and sitting by this monument , re-reading these great essays , these testaments to all that is best in use , is just a way of delivering personally my letter of thanks . |
| 14 | Well , you can imagine the Colonel at that stage said emphatically ‘ NO ’ , and so my debut into cabaret was dramatically finished . |
| 15 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 16 | And so my tour in Mespot came to an end , I gained my " wings " on 13 June 1935 and was promoted to sergeant . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , after ten minutes or so my hand on Karen 's knee was starting to feel like one lump of meat resting on another . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps her behaviour on Sunday night had not been so foolish after all . |
| 20 | Sadie would raid the bins for scraps when she could — perhaps her diet of rabbits needed to be supplemented . |
| 21 | Perhaps their escape from Germany felt as miraculous as that of Jonah from the whale . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | We did not condemn empiricism outright , merely its substitution for reality . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Naturally their way of living is very different from ours . ’ |
| 27 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 28 | Apparently their clothing including boots were removed by YUGOSLAV troops who left the refugees to carry out this journey on foot , in pouring rain . |
| 29 | She thought she better buy not only her way into heaven but that of all her husband and relations as well . |
| 30 | Then the maiden alone , with only her melancholy for company . |