Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can work on the assumption , anyway , and I 'll make discreet inquiries when I get to the office tomorrow . |
| 2 | Rain worried how long she would bear the bruises , whether it would still be cold enough in London for her to wear high-necked sweaters when she got back . |
| 3 | Then having to kill forty minutes when he could have been in bed and now this : the delay in visiting the dry cleaner 's meant a vital piece of evidence might have been destroyed . |
| 4 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 5 | The minister disappointed some supporters when he confirmed the Government had abandoned plans for legislation to curb the activities of the National Union of Students . |
| 6 | She helped some bairns when she was living in the Australian outback . |
| 7 | 10:5–7 ) He used similar words when he appointed the Seventy . |
| 8 | People who committed crimes in the past 10 years while on bail would have to provide good reasons why they should be released . |
| 9 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 10 | Well , do n't you sometimes expect to find mysterious deaths wherever you go ? ’ |
| 11 | Suggest several reasons why you think many people prefer to live in southern England and near London . |
| 12 | They fixed two nights when they were not riding . |
| 13 | Another writer on the police met similar problems when he wished to write and publish . |
| 14 | Patsy , 24 , wearing a loose-fitting dress and comfy sandals , filled eight carriers when she unloaded her trolley . |
| 15 | A 76-YEAR-OLD doctor suffered extensive injuries when he was hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing at Bebington Village , Wirral magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 16 | For example , Denise Jodelet is expressing universal themes when she writes that ‘ the concept of social representations denotes … the knowledge of common-sense ’ , and that it refers to ‘ practical thought . |
| 17 | No she was saying they have built some shops where they are . |
| 18 | In hospital Andrew suffered serious side-effects when he was given a drug to prevent infection . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to remember these days when I 'm old like Dad , ’ Gareth said . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , yes , I 'll do these exercises when I have time , but right now I 'm really rather busy . ’ |
| 21 | Then list three reasons why they might have the opposite reaction . |
| 22 | First let us exclude all cases where we are concerned with something which actually is , or is taken to be , a bull or cow or calf in a real or imagined external world , when the use is plainly ascriptive . |
| 23 | Good , then you must make her responsibilities even clearer , by defining key areas where she is to get a result . |
| 24 | We received many letters when she died , and one was from a girl called Janine , a 17 year old taking A levels , saying if she could help in any way she would willingly do so . |
| 25 | A twenty-five year old man suffered multiple injuries when he fell from a train which was moving at sixty five miles an hour . |
| 26 | The idea of the super-ego seems to encompass the Christian concept of the conscience , and describes those moments when we feel restrained in our actions ( ‘ I am letting myself down ’ or ‘ I am letting my ideal person down ’ kinds of feelings ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose I ought to have made more enquiries when I was inviting him — I mean , it would seem discourteous to ignore her , if she exists . |
| 28 | A PARTIALLY-sighted man suffered fatal injuries when he was struck by a car while crossing a road without using his white stick . |
| 29 | The former Spurs player installed high-security alarms when he moved into the villa with girlfriend and mother-of-two Sheryl Kyle . |
| 30 | Erm so , so I mean and then , you know , he describes various examples where you know if you get hit by your best mate you basically , you know , instead of telling him to F off you say down with imperialism type of thing . |