Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between these two groups , each including within itself many sub-groups , there was on most of the great issues of the day a fairly clear division . |
| 2 | Shower and bath gels , face masks and deodorants bought by women are also favourites , although men are too lazy to shop for their own . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry to go through it all again , but there 's something about it that seems odd to me . ’ |
| 4 | It had , for example , to struggle with West Germany 's complaints about a High Authority decision to allow French steel to be sold within West Germany with a lower level of taxation than that placed upon its own steel being sold in France . |
| 5 | In this way a project which would have been profitable evolves into something much more fancy — and more fun — but something which is no longer profitable . |
| 6 | Real animals are dotted around here and there among the hypothetical monsters , each perched in its own unique place in genetic hyperspace . |
| 7 | That looks like us that 's us , that 's us that 's us , that 's grandma . |
| 8 | This led to nothing more than Morrissey 's former headmaster making a radio appearance wherein he spoke briefly in defence of the education system before recalling proud remembrances of his former pupil . |
| 9 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 10 | Some of these parents may also wish , through adoption , to protect children against the social order , but they are ‘ real ’ parents in that they are prepared to go beyond their own concerns and hold the child 's interests as their priority . |
| 11 | ( It is not clear if this refers to his own experiment or to the fact that Jones had by then made his work known to them . ) |
| 12 | ‘ Right now this Capricorn ca n't wait to get one particular little Virgo into his bed — and do some research of his own ! ’ |
| 13 | It would be interesting to know with whom this initiative was discussed by those who advise the secretary of state . |
| 14 | ‘ T was to stop you becoming completely distraught , but I was afraid to look at you , afraid to come to you that night in case I saw fear or revulsion in your eyes . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The man in the field must be prepared to work on his own and work conscientiously . |
| 16 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 17 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 18 | ‘ Is n't this interfering with your own writing ? ’ |
| 19 | This happened to you some way or other ? |
| 20 | We can only conclude that it was chiefly in the enthusiasm with which the British talked about it all . |
| 21 | This amounts to nothing less than the extension of the nomenklatura system to intrabloc relations . |
| 22 | Since there are few books indexed under " swords " , the " history of swords " searcher may well be prepared to look through them all ; there are thousands of books under " history " , and only a minute proportion will contain anything of relevance to this searcher . |
| 23 | One thing parents ca n't afford — especially our sort of parent — is that the whisper might be put about that they had been willing to toy with their own children 's safety . |
| 24 | If having read this you feel you would like to offer time etc but none of these are what you are looking for then please ring either The Chairperson or Secretary who I am sure will be only too willing to discuss with you any further possibilities . |
| 25 | If you have consulted the proxy and confirmed that he or she is able and willing to vote for you that is enough . |
| 26 | Indeed , until the ecumenical era of the 1960s , few catholics in Ireland were prepared to put before themselves some of the political religious issues which would have to be resolved if a united Ireland or accommodation to a separate political entity in Ulster were to become a possibility . |
| 27 | When their secondment did come to an end , 22 returned to their former jobs , 7 continued their secondments , 14 moved to another employer and 7 entered entirely new jobs . |
| 28 | This derived from my own sad experience when I was selling . |
| 29 | The stress , arousal , motor activity and so on inevitably associated with learning themselves result in biochemical and physiological changes in the brain at the same time as the animal is learning , and they are all important and interesting to study in their own right . |
| 30 | Primarily , I greatly respected the culture and customs of the people and , as a western woman , although free to dress in my own cultural fashion , I dressed respectfully for an Islamic country and covered my hair , arms and legs and wore loose fitting clothes , so I felt comfortable drawing and was protected from the heat of the sun . |