Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | So for him the next test — whose result he was awaiting — would be crucial . |
| 3 | So for him the public sector has proved useful and at present he is a non-executive director of the Defence Research Agency Council . |
| 4 | So for me the three points were the Aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 5 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 6 | Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time . |
| 7 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 8 | Even so , PNP has clearly brought along with it a few entirely new initiatives . |
| 9 | His tongue stroked briefly across the tender inner swell of her lower lip , inducing a tingling sensitivity , and then she was accepting its sinuous thrust against hers and along with it a wild pleasure , desire following only a heartbeat behind . |
| 10 | All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat . |
| 11 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 12 | Now when it came down to it the national government essen sorry the Supreme Court essentially said if the national government wishes to create a national bank in pursuance of legitimate aims of the constitution then it should have the discretion to do so and it should n't be interfered with by a state government . |
| 13 | So to me the most point thing if you 're an interviewee is to find out the duration of the interview . |
| 14 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 15 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 16 | I looked in on you a short while ago and you were fast asleep . |
| 17 | All around them the other coolies stared in disbelief at the sight of their tormentor so astonishingly struck down before their eyes ; then the floodwaters of their hatred burst some invisible dam , and several men dashed forward screaming incoherently to slash at the kneeling man 's head and shoulders with their coupe-coupes . |
| 18 | The first rays of the sun were gilding the grassy hillsides visible through the trees , and all around them the thick green roof of the jungle was gradually coming alive with the cries of darting , bright-hued birds . |
| 19 | All around it the bloodstained undergrowth lay broken and flattened by its struggles , and as soon as it saw him , the animal lowered its needle-sharp horns that had grown in its prime to a length of nearly three feet . |
| 20 | All around us an increasing crowd was assembling on the platform while the subterranean tunnels thundered and shook with their hidden traffic . |
| 21 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 22 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 23 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 24 | Not for them the sudden exhilaration of Crick and Watson on discovering the structure of DNA ( a rare thrill , even in the natural sciences ) . |
| 25 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 26 | They were temporary , not permanent , migrants : not for them the single journey to a new land . |
| 27 | Not for him a cool , air-conditioned dealing-room in Hong Kong . |
| 28 | Not for him a short iron to loosen up . |
| 29 | Not for him the good old days of the 1960s , when the Mirror — social conscience and all — reigned supreme and Pilger was churning out his hard-hitting reports . |
| 30 | Not for him the limited intellectual life of some academics , who spend their careers developing minor lines of enquiry from their doctoral theses and seldom move far from the safety of their chosen subject . |