Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was collecting glasses and plates from all over , slinging the contents in a vile bucket , and Philippa noticed that she was n't particularly careful where she stubbed out the cigarette that dropped a little trail of ash wherever she went . |
| 2 | It was never entirely clear where he bedded down at night after he lurched from the pub with various caddying cronies of a like mind . |
| 3 | The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science . |
| 4 | If so , it is clear that he gave up after a short while , returned to E ( which needed a fresh set of running titles before printing could resume ) and finished it off regardless . |
| 5 | Although the mainstream group , Fatah , made clear that it ruled out any question of subverting the Hashemite regime , other groups , of which the PFLP was the most notable , made equally clear their view that the overthrow of the Hashemites was a necessary preliminary to the recovery of Palestine . |
| 6 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 7 | You are sometimes so stiffly English that you bring out the need to tease . |
| 8 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |
| 9 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 10 | After the first few months , George was insistent that she give up the market stall . |
| 11 | I must say , the diplomatic bag works extremely fast in both directions , so we are managing to keep up some kind of dialogue : she was insistent that I get out of ffeatherstonehaugh 's as much as possible . |
| 12 | But , go back here , it 's interesting that you point out something I had n't really thought about , which is why I tend to use typefaces that are sort of garden variety — printer 's types , as opposed to the sweller Berthold revivals or whatever . |
| 13 | Interesting that you picked up on that one . |
| 14 | It was fortuitous that my slackening off in actual programme production at CBC coincided with an increasing social activity , mainly with the Semmens family , whose house I had almost begun to regard as home . |
| 15 | Machines that are considered ‘ out of the way ’ in a corner of the room will be relatively more unsociable if they block off a doorway or interrupt television viewing . |
| 16 | At the end of September the group split up ; determined to get away from things English , they now decided to explore different areas , thinking they would learn more German if they gave up each others ' company . |
| 17 | The barricades at the front had to be removed to stop everyone getting crushed and it brought back memories of the heady days of punk . |
| 18 | This is clear if we look back over the years . |
| 19 | The conversation then started to get interesting and we turned up the volume in London . |
| 20 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 21 | If something went wrong and you landed up inside a black hole , I 'd never be able to get you out . |
| 22 | They had their they measured it and it was eight foot high and he jumps up , spins around and crash |
| 23 | A tube of Zovirax , which you can get from your doctor or dentist stops the virus dividing and makes each attack less painful until they die out . |
| 24 | Yeah , she come back as a bloody well , thirteen year old was a five year old and she come back |
| 25 | What would be funny if we meet up |
| 26 | Well , in the beginning , erm , this is an interview before they start rehearsing one evening , or like , what they each other play , and they 're just talking about how they met and everything , cos they , the vocalist and the guitarist met in a chip shop , and knocked all the chips everywhere , and then he er , the guitarist talks about , erm , he met , I mean , he knows a drummer that 's free and it turns out that it 's the vo vocalist 's vocalist 's brother . |
| 27 | It was like he had n't done anything really interesting until he kicked off . |
| 28 | Synthetic bags maintain their insulation even when wet and they dry out much more quickly than the down bags . |
| 29 | But the floor was wet and I slid along before colliding with a slab of sprats , cod and ice which showered over me . |
| 30 | Jim Lauderdale is like a neutered Dwight Yoakam , though his tribute to George Jones and Gram , ‘ The King Of Broken Hearts ’ suggests he could be exciting if he loosened up a taste . |