Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun sg] [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| 2 | Perhaps my notion of wilderness is romantic and hopelessly out of date , but I have to say that I find paragliding an intrusion .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 | It is only my subscription to Punch that stops me from taking a midnight walk off the roof . |
| 5 | I have to say that from my point of view — and this is only my point of view — it is not a page-turner . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I said quickly , putting down my glass of beer . |
| 9 | Well , you can imagine the Colonel at that stage said emphatically ‘ NO ’ , and so my debut into cabaret was dramatically finished . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | We did not condemn empiricism outright , merely its substitution for reality . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Naturally their way of living is very different from ours . ’ |
| 16 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 17 | She thought she better buy not only her way into heaven but that of all her husband and relations as well . |
| 18 | Then the maiden alone , with only her melancholy for company . |
| 19 | Obviously its date of composition must be later than the last event mentioned — in the case of Exodus , the erection of the tabernacle . |
| 20 | Early in 1987 , a memo was circulated to all Harvard staff assuring them that Harvard would still be in business that time the following year and that appeal options would be taken up , should the Stock Exchange turn down their application for membership . |
| 21 | This indicates not only their wealth of invention but also the artistry and professionalism of their approach . |
| 22 | Yet there is much that these two great historians have in common , and not only their sense of foreboding , their anxiety about the future , and a vision of past greatness ; they share , above all , a need to give the Christianity of their compatriots , Franks or English , roots in the Roman past . |
| 23 | The army , where profiteering and corruption was endemic , had profitable interests to protect , especially its involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 24 | I welcome especially its emphasis on education . |
| 25 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 26 | In the same way the beetle rolled along its ball of dung , so the sun god was thought to create and push the sun across the sky . |
| 27 | A right circular cylinder moving along its axis of symmetry makes a highly idealized but straightforward model of a deforming impactor . |
| 28 | Faced with such evidence , Marc Thompson — an IMS research fellow who worked on both studies — believes that the Department of Health should tone down its enthusiasm for PRP in the health service , despite the Citizens ' Charter pledge to introduce merit pay into the public sector . |
| 29 | When her mother came and sat beside her , twisting her fingers nervously and pulling on and off her gloves , lifting and laying down her basket in agitation , Lily rallied a little . |
| 30 | If people were not to assume she was talking down to them she had to speed up her presentation and tone down her air of authority . |