Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STEVE DAVIS , the defending champion , lost his quarter-final clash with Ken Doherty in the most humiliating circumstances when he forfeited the deciding frame and the match on the ‘ miss ’ rule at the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters at Goff 's , County Kildare . |
| 2 | I 've sometimes made some rather awful mistakes when I have thought first about what I would like to give rather than what my friends would like to receive , so do try to find out before you embark on a special garment . |
| 3 | I had gone perhaps fifty yards when I felt a bullet sing past my ear and heard the crack of a rifle-shot behind me . |
| 4 | There were so few homes where she could relax and , without talking about the hidden things , not be consciously hiding them . |
| 5 | Actor Jimmy Nail , who plays the hard-nosed Geordie ‘ tec , was back in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne for only 12 hours when they pounced . |
| 6 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 7 | And especially these computers where they change every |
| 8 | Suddenly , salvation : Jo took hold of my arm and dragged me away , giving several extremely good reasons why we should leave as soon as possible . |
| 9 | There are so many reasons why it wo n't work , you taking over here , but … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 11 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's why I cast so many unknowns when I came to make the movie , ’ Dickerson reasons . |
| 13 | So many nights when she had been left alone . |
| 14 | He can only highlight the atmosphere supporting the plot , especially those circumstances where he has to portray differences between classes and thus general behaviour , idiosyncrasies , etc. , for example the contrast that must be made between the dances for all and sundry in the town square and those for the aristocrats in the ballroom of Romeo and Juliet . |
| 15 | Lizzie ( 45 ) , who is filming her final scenes at ‘ EastEnders ’ ' Elstree studios , was supposed to stay with the BBC1 series for only five episodes when she joined the cast in January last year . |
| 16 | Both the children have brought me through extremely difficult times when I could easily have given up . |
| 17 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 18 | As far as we know there were only two places where he was likely to feel sufficiently at home to take his jacket off — in his own house and at Laura Passmore 's . ’ |
| 19 | Michael Banks managed his lines fairly well , with only a couple of mishearings and one awfully long thirty seconds where he totally lost the thread . |
| 20 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 21 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 22 | The only Clough contribution came after just six minutes when he released Keane . |
| 23 | Simon Pickering , 22 , of Lindisfarne Road , Spennymoor , had been married just six weeks when he was involved in an accident near the Brough by-pass . |
| 24 | According to the barman in the White Lion , he had been putting away double scotches when he received a telephone call at the bar . |
| 25 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 26 | Gloucester needed an early score , an early lead and they got it after just 9 minutes when they won a penalty right in front of the posts . |
| 27 | Clough 's only moment of inspiration came after just two minutes when he superbly threaded through a pass to utilise the blistering acceleration of White . |
| 28 | Having sifted through the views of countless organizations , through its technical appraisals , through computer assessments , it had concluded that there were just two places where it would pursue its investigations for an underground dump . |
| 29 | Stuffing the ‘ Hydracals ’ will be one of my most cherished memories when I look back on my spell as manager of Athletico Whaddon . |
| 30 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |