Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they became aware of cinema audiences the vast majority of these intellectuals tended not to see them in quite such a negative way as Chaplin . |
| 2 | The frescoes , for example , show many elements that are borrowed from Minoan Crete , but handled in a way that turns them into distinctively Theran compositions . |
| 3 | Thus the dealers were forced to bluff the more , which amazingly , made them into more effective salesmen . |
| 4 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 5 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 6 | One solution that government has used is to replace or override them with more compliant organisations such as the urban development corporations referred to above . |
| 7 | Or outworkers who were expected to know how to perform them to very exacting standards for very low wages . |
| 8 | He had been on the committee of the Scottish region , as it was ten called , since 1984 — ‘ they flung me on as naive new blood ’ — — and was vice-chairman for two years before becoming chairman at the tender age of 25 . |
| 9 | One government pamphlet complained how scarcely any of the Anglican clergy could find it in their hearts to thank the King , " and those Few that pretend to do it , have proceeded so Awkwardly in their Acknowledgments , as renders them of very little Value , since in the same addresses they also pressed for " the continuance of those Penal Laws , which diametrically oppose … the Royal Indulgence " . |
| 10 | Ten years later however the BBC asked me at very short notice to compile a programme to celebrate the Queen Mother 's eighty-fifth birthday . |
| 11 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 12 | And it is no surprise that the man who first addressed a novel called The Joke to the citizens of a prohibitionist state in the middle of Europe twenty-five years ago should treat them with as much sympathy as harsh lucidity . |
| 13 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 14 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 15 | It was uncommon in those days , and still is , for publishers to commission artists of such quality to illustrate cookery books , and a little of the success of Boulestin 's early books must be acknowledged to his publishers who , no doubt under the guidance of their author , produced them in so appropriate a form , in large type , on thick paper : chunky , easy little books to handle , attractively bound . |
| 16 | The flow of supplies to Iraqi troops in Kuwait , he said , had been cut from the 20,000 tons per day needed to support them to only 2,000 tons . |
| 17 | We must again remember to search for the constitution amongst the realities , and not confine ourselves to pretty normative structures . |
| 18 | First if you have something wrong , please supply me with as much detail as possible : your water conditions , decor , and maintenance routine . |
| 19 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |
| 20 | And he 'd make sure he used me till about nine o'clock . |
| 21 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 22 | Go for angular-shaped chairs , softening them with brightly coloured cushions . |
| 23 | A Press , frustrated by censorship , built them into almost comic-strip heroes , daily recounting and exaggerating their latest exploits , revelling in the eccentricities of their uniforms . |
| 24 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 25 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 26 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 27 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 28 | ‘ Before we appoint a new assistant , we interview them for quite some time . |
| 29 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 30 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |