Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the sort of murder will have in your police procedural will present virtually no challenge to the reader to guess or work out who-dun-it before your detectives . |
| 2 | Although these differences are now widely known , there is so far no satisfactory explanation nor do particular penal philosophies , or the adoption of deliberate policy choices in favour of a greater or lesser use of custody , necessarily seem to have expected or intended effect on one jurisdiction or explain why its of imprisonment differs from that of another jurisdiction . |
| 3 | The little creatures have an endless appetite , and a digestive system that turns almost anything into perfect compost . |
| 4 | He flicked up his eyes , small and blank , holes that sucked in everything around him , but gave nothing back . |
| 5 | Icelandic weather is really buggering me about , I decide , and conditions are now near perfect except for the metre of soft snow that lies over everything in sight . |
| 6 | She opened the door and gazed down a splendid vista of reception rooms that opened out one into the next , which Buzz had learned was typical of grand French houses . |
| 7 | That at least was an attitude that owed almost nothing to the Civil Service . |
| 8 | would virtually take over completely , the section Cricket Green — Fair Green — Tooting Junction , providing the cars and crews that worked over it as part of a through service from a central London terminus . |
| 9 | Luke 's eyes stared down into hers , his gaze drawing up a veil of heat in her body until she was suffused by a sensation that blocked out everything but his closeness . |
| 10 | And she could not sort out her brain while he stood less than a foot away , watching her with eyes that gave away nothing of his own thoughts . |
| 11 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 12 | The quiet discursive approach actually delivers the goods in terms of reforming this nation and increasing our prosperity more effectively than carrying on everything as a flat-out argument . |
| 13 | There remained only a narrow gauge track , reminiscent of an Emmett railway and called the Meusien , that was designed to supply the wants of a peacetime garrison , and the second-class road that ran alongside it for some fifty miles from Barle-Due . |
| 14 | It was a past that had almost nothing in common with the learned past which Lanfranc had made abundantly available at Bec , and which pointed the way to the future . |
| 15 | She put by the rent for the six weeks , and laid out everything for the bills — she usually pays £6 a week for gas , £2.68 newspapers , £2 club for her son 's clothes , £30 for food , £2.75 for school dinners in term time . |
| 16 | He strongly criticised local government for increasing bureaucracy and asked why anyone with an interesting and busy life would want to be involved with it . |
| 17 | Now is a time to focus on priorities and to strip away anything in your life that is superfluous . |
| 18 | Once they had filled the trolley and checked off everything on their list Stuart and his Mum looked for a checkout that was n't busy . |
| 19 | I was saying Danny the other day do you remember the time he came and got out his in there ? |
| 20 | His way of looking and drawing became ingrained in us , and has too me in good stead ever since . ’ |
| 21 | l he vehicles entered the western end of this northern bay , and the coach body was lifted off its bogies and placed on moving carriers , the wheels removed from the bogies , the bogies then also placed on carriers parallel with its body and moved alongside it through the shop at the same pace , that of one vehicle every forty minutes . |
| 22 | Squeeze a little lemon juice over each portion and grind over plenty of black pepper . |
| 23 | Weber scurried to the ship 's blower , and shouted down it in fury , while Katze knelt below the shattered windowpane and took potshots at the dock with his Luger . |
| 24 | They spoke to lots of other Brownies , Guides and guiders over the radio and filled in lots of QSL cards . |
| 25 | Repayments can be monthly or quarterly , and spread over one to 20 years , which gives you the ability to fix an appropriate level . |
| 26 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 27 | ‘ I was studying maths at Cambridge University and wondering why none of my friends wanted to be in a glam rock group with me . |
| 28 | These flowers are visited by larger bees such as species of Xylocopa , which land on the hood-like ligule and forage underneath it for pollen . |
| 29 | Soon he is befriended by the kindly German ‘ Doc ’ ( Armin Mueller-Stahl ) who is interned in the local prison And we see him taught to box and fend fro himself by a likeable petty thief ( Morgan Freeman ) . |
| 30 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |