Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard them before like that , distanced but there , singing beyond the night in a daytime of their own . |
| 2 | It should be noted that , despite the historical primacy of arithmetic calculation as the raison d'etre for computers , we ought perhaps to see them instead as symbol-processing devices . |
| 3 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 4 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It turns them away from looser , unstructured organizations . |
| 6 | Trevor Senior had given the Conference side the perfect start , firing them ahead after seven minutes . |
| 7 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 8 | They wo n't want me here with all this happening . |
| 9 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 10 | ‘ Paste me again with that stick of yours and you 're a dead Scotsman , Patel . ’ |
| 11 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 12 | There are not enough — but it is absurd that , under present arrangements , they and others with specialisms have almost no chance of using them directly with other teachers or with children . |
| 13 | They accuse Washington of exploiting regional trends among Third World states , of attempting ‘ to emasculate the positive basis of such processes , to militarise the activity of regional organisations created by the developing countries , transforming them ultimately into pro-Western military blocs ’ . |
| 14 | The specific function of the agents of transnational political practices is to create and sustain the organizational forms within which this penetration takes place and to connect them organically with those domestic practices that can be incorporated and mobilized in the interests of the global capitalist system . |
| 15 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 16 | In 1974 , visiting the northern region of the Maramureş , one of the districts richest in the everyday survival of peasant customs and dress , Ceauşescu told a group of folk-artists that adhering to traditions was one way of developing a communist country : ‘ I appreciate … these true works of popular art as an expression of your commitment to maintain the dress and customs of [ your ] ancestors , as well as to weave them tightly with that which is new , … because only in this way will we build a strong socialist society . ’ |
| 17 | We need to refer to them because they are a significant element of style , but we shall not in general distinguish them formally from linguistic categories . |
| 18 | From a subjective viewpoint , these differences do not seem to depend on linguistically-represented concepts , and moreover are of such a general character that it is implausible to ascribe them uniquely to human perceivers . |
| 19 | Taylor ( 1982 ; 1989 ) has recently recast his views on soccer hooliganism , bringing them closer to other approaches described in this section . |
| 20 | Attempts to energise old materials by bringing them together in new ways compete with experiments in new materials , such as electronics and rapid hardening plastics . |
| 21 | So fascinated has he become that he 's painted nothing else in all that time . |
| 22 | They did n't move either until they got one of the old horsemen : he got them away without any trouble . ’ |
| 23 | They dig for days to get them out of the ground , and hide them jealously from other Yahoos . ’ |
| 24 | So , as villagers sadly began to dig up bluebell and primrose roots from the soon-to-be-flooded little woods of their pleasant countryside and to plant them elsewhere on safer ground , the Anglian Water Board asked Dame Sylvia Crowe , the landscape architect , to take on the challenge of turning the proposed 3,000-acre inland sea , with its 27-mile perimeter , into an ‘ environmental asset ’ . |
| 25 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 26 | Turning now to the views of professional employees on taxation , we confine ourselves again to British studies . |
| 27 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 28 | All the big firms have strong international links that cushion them somewhat from domestic troubles . |
| 29 | You want to psycho-analyse me and send me home with all my little idiosyncrasies ironed out ! ’ |
| 30 | However , Wanderers are true amateurs on the field and will no doubt battle until they give up , so let's hope Athletico can keep up the good work and send them home with three lost points and the Samaritans ’ telephone number . |