Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To simplify his thoughts he had listed them under two headings : first there was that which directly affected Belpan . |
| 2 | We 've heard them so many times that they 've ceased to have any effect . |
| 3 | Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 30 times holding each squeeze for 1 second . |
| 4 | Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 30 times , holding each squeeze for 1 second . |
| 5 | Keeping the legs straight , squeeze them together 25 times , holding each squeeze for 1 second . |
| 6 | Extend both legs forwards and squeeze them together 25 times , holding each squeeze for 1 second . |
| 7 | Keeping the legs straight , squeeze them together 25 times , holding each squeeze for 1 second . |
| 8 | In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll put down three weighted floodlights and suspend them about twenty feet above the bottom . |
| 10 | On the ramshackle desolate station at Latimer Road he met them dutifully changing cars , but instead of joining the Safeguards , found himself offering Jed and Abelard , his pet Harris hawk , a home at the School . |
| 11 | Masses need leaders who can stir them out of apathy and organize them , but once organized they defer to leaders and accord them steadily greater levels of discretion to pursue their own rather than mass interests . |
| 12 | She asked me how many children 's I 'd fostered , but I said I could n't remember . |
| 13 | Would that explain why he asked me so few questions , took my unlikely presence and knowledge so much for granted ? |
| 14 | I sometimes find myself using them yet long years you know when I thought I 'd forgotten them and any younger person just looks at me in amazement and has no idea what I 'm talking about . |
| 15 | Cara had made it sound so easy when she 'd said ‘ All I 'm asking is that you bring me back relevant facts and answers ’ . |
| 16 | So all together given me about five pounds . |
| 17 | My preference is for the bigger man yet Andy Robinson has given me more difficult games that any other opponent . |
| 18 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 19 | We had to believe the photographs which appeared in the newspapers , but I think we all asked ourselves how such things could be in a so-called civilised world . |
| 20 | Or did I buy them as odd presents for people who might like them ? |
| 21 | Well we 're not having much joy with these people from I mean I 've rung them about four times in the last er week . |
| 22 | ‘ My monthly salary would buy me just four bottles of Johnny Walker whisky on the black market , ’ said Hatim , a professor of engineering at Baghdad University . |
| 23 | But Aymer , and after him his widow , remained in possession of their Limousin and Angoumois lordships until Charles V of France confiscated them only five years before her death in 1377 . |
| 24 | Names beat me sometimes these days . |
| 25 | Phoebe wrapped Maggie in her towel and called Rachel to come and hold her while she found them both some clothes . |
| 26 | Jenkins took my arms and helped me up several flights of stairs , like a Boy Scout assisting an old lady . |
| 27 | We had an expert down from London who pronounced them rather inferior copies — but good enough , he thought , to be worth cleaning . |
| 28 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 29 | Cubism , however , had already won its most important battles . |
| 30 | Almost a quarter of the world 's population — 1.2 billion people — were reckoned to be too poor to meet their most basic needs for food , clothing and shelter . |