Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 2 | ( Sweet ale drinkers vigorously attacked it as that pernicious and wicked weed ) . |
| 3 | I am writing hurriedly to you but I have thought it right to apprize you of this … |
| 4 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 5 | Yet if you have dry hair you have to be careful to choose a shampoo that will effectively rid you of these nasties without stripping your hair of its natural oils . |
| 6 | The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance . |
| 7 | How could he hold her so tenderly one moment , only to treat her like this the next ? |
| 8 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |
| 9 | Your family has obviously sustained you through many crises . |
| 10 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 11 | It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured . |
| 12 | And seeing Nicole had only reminded her of that fact . |
| 13 | It fears , and when it does not fear , it despises , non-conformity ; and if non-conformity must be allowed its say , it will gently rob it of all anger and all laughter , of all passion and all heartache , until it lacks both pith and point … |
| 14 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 15 | You should only consider it at all if you believe your marriage can continue . |
| 16 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |
| 17 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 18 | only seen it in that . |
| 19 | But I 've only seen it in some of the |
| 20 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 21 | Then they decided perhaps I did n't have to stay in that one after all , so put me into another single cell , which was equally disgusting . |
| 22 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 23 | What was it about him that constantly stirred her into such a state of agitation ? |
| 24 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 25 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 26 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 27 | I mean you liked it at night but I mean we 've got people right but some Friday nights we 've only got them in that bar . |
| 28 | Yeah but , they 've only got them in that flavour , I do n't like cherry . |
| 29 | These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week . |
| 30 | I think we should perhaps provide you with some extra lessons . ’ |