Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 2 | Halliwell drives me almost daily , and occasionally my daughter-in-law . |
| 3 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 4 | About the same time , Brailsford , who had toyed with the idea of working for the NCF , judged it more harshly : ‘ a blind alley which won t bring us even infinitesimally nearer to peace . ’ |
| 5 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 6 | But his ruthlessness made him as much a figure of fun as a minister of fear , and whatever his future holds , Souness will always be pursued by a sense of resentment in Scotland . |
| 7 | If anything , the deepening and lengthening recession made it more rather than less unlikely that the electorate would turn to Mr Kinnock as an economic messiah . |
| 8 | This split made him simultaneously very alert and extremely absent-minded , now on the ball , now off in a world of his own . |
| 9 | Trent passed it up along with his weightbelt , slipped off his flippers and mask , dropped them over the taffrail and pulled himself into the cockpit . |
| 10 | The personal qualities of the Masai made them not only attractive to the British but ‘ attractive … to administer ’ . |
| 11 | I ca n't make the machine go any bloody quicker , well I can , but I so what 's the point in that come and have a look at it and then they said come back and do it when you on the skin , you know the skin bring it forward well it do n't go back , it just gets all tangled . |
| 12 | Even as another rolling hill of a wave tumbled her dizzyingly further into the ‘ chute , the air was hissing and venting in her breathing system , easing the pain , and delivering her from the edge of eternity . |
| 13 | Luce read it through twice , and sighed . |
| 14 | That is , I shall argue that the power/knowledge assumptions which form the very basis of Bourdieu 's conceptual framework place him much closer to Foucault and the postmodernist end of the theoretical spectrum . |
| 15 | His response caught her completely unawares . |
| 16 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 17 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |
| 18 | He wore nothing but a towel and although she tried to keep her eyes upon his chest a line of damp , curling hair drew them inexorably downwards . |
| 19 | Some , like Robert Fishlock of Thistleton , were taxed on wages ; perhaps he was somebody 's chief servant , and in any case the muster described him more realistically as a labourer and valued his goods at 30s . |
| 20 | ‘ It raises the question of internal control and we would expect a bank facing this difficulty to inform us right away , ’ said an official . |
| 21 | ‘ The driver found you all right ? |
| 22 | The snake caught him again savagely round the legs with its jaws , but he managed to tear himself away and keep running until he finally passed out from shock and blood-loss . |
| 23 | Through Bair 's memorable and at times troubling portrait , de Beauvoir confronts us once again . |
| 24 | Their very weakness , their distance from practical affairs , and their isolation made them ever more extreme . |
| 25 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |
| 26 | Ernest Bevin 's entry into the wartime coalition made it even less likely than before that the bulk of trade-union officials would tolerate the Communists let alone support them . |
| 27 | Last night Mr Brown said the job losses made it even more important that Rosyth is awarded the Trident work . |
| 28 | And , ironically again , the increasing specialization of Greek scholarship made it increasingly more problematic for German writers to draw on Greek literature and its topoi as wholeheartedly as they once had . |
| 29 | The description we have of Goldstein 's third assailant fits him pretty well . |
| 30 | And promptly had the stuffing knocked straight out of her when , his aggression not letting up , ‘ You 're sure your name 's not Mrs Barnaby Stewart ? ’ he grated — and Fabia 's attempt to bluff it out promptly folded . |