Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If food to be eaten raw or without further cooking has thawed , it 's acceptable to refreeze it if just the surface has softened but you can still feel some ice . |
| 2 | You may not consider yourself as either a salesperson or a negotiator but you are a persuader nonetheless . |
| 3 | Closely related species , however , like chimps and humans , have such large chunks of adjacent contents in common that we can easily identify them as basically the same , even though we ca n't use quite the same addressing system for the two species . |
| 4 | Up until that moment I had seen myself as simply a person ; colour of skin had n't registered with me . |
| 5 | I had always seen myself as potentially a sort of protector of her ; and for the first time , that evening at Bourani , I saw that perhaps she had been , or could have been , a protector of me . |
| 6 | At once CAMRA declared itself as both a consumer and a conservationist watchdog , speaking up for citizens as well as consumers against the abuses inflicted on one of our best national traditions . |
| 7 | The American Association for Recorded Sound Collections has made its second Lifetime Achievement award to Brian Rust , citing him as probably the most prolific discographer in the world and recognizing his extraordinary contribution to the field . |
| 8 | How could you refute it when just the memory of his scathing comments made your eyes fill with tears ? |
| 9 | I know that girl , know her as only a mother can , and I know she 's not well . |
| 10 | I asked her whether she felt she could walk past them , giving them as wide a berth as the width of the pavement would allow . |
| 11 | There are also some that are actually innocuous but are seldom eaten for they have taken a rather complicated gamble by copying the colours of poisonous caterpillars to delude aggressors into giving them as wide a berth as the creatures they mimic . |
| 12 | Even he did n't consider such deeds heroic ( heroes are usually frightened men who rise to the occasion ) , but saw himself as just a reckless fool whose luck would one day run out . |
| 13 | It saw itself as primarily a teaching institution and Lindop underlined that ‘ we are at pains to ensure that we recruit staff who share our view of the primacy of teaching ’ , and the Polytechnic was requiring new and inexperienced staff to attend an in-service training programme of about 250 hours in their first year . |
| 14 | He gave him as sharp a look as he dared . |
| 15 | Since he finally won test honours against France in the domestic series in 1991 McKenzie has established himself as arguably the world 's best tighthead prop . |
| 16 | The two modes fight it out in Schlesinger 's Billy Liar , where the hero escapes from the constraints of life in an undertaking business by fantasizing himself as variously a soldier , Winston Churchill , a gunman mowing down his family or an aristocrat living with obliging parents whose behaviour is strikingly different from that of the real screeching proletarians . |