Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , I hardly think my alleged avoidance of you is justification enough for labelling me a man-hater . ’ |
| 2 | In this instance , that is in the interests of taxpayers and also of managers and employees because it is only through learning what the values are and what the method of bidding is that they will achieve a learning curve . |
| 3 | Thank you very much for bringing me the transistor — and I 'm sorry , Dr Vaughan . |
| 4 | Thank you very much for sending us the samples of prints from the English In Focus video taken from the Sony UP 5000 video printer . |
| 5 | Getting out , Flavia said dully , ‘ Thank you very much for giving me a lift . ’ |
| 6 | Thank you very much Mr Chairman thank you very much for giving me a chance to speak this afternoon . |
| 7 | In conclusion , I 'd like to thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to present our petition . |
| 8 | But Warren is prepared to meet Hodkinson halfway by paying him a further £25,000 — provided he beats McMillan but he will have to offer the WBO champion the same . |
| 9 | You can show me or remind me of the difference between orange and pink , perhaps by showing me a colour chart . |
| 10 | The creditor may have done enough by superintending himself the execution of the document and by attempting to assure himself by means of questions or explanation that she knows to what she is committing herself . |
| 11 | The human conscience should be respected and revered as the most precious and effective thing that the human race , in its struggle to civilise itself , has available , and it can be used only by giving it the utmost priority in child training . |
| 12 | Tolkien 's romance was an amalgam , then , and a potent one ; and its improbable success in his sixties lay not just in proving itself a bestseller but in making of itself the heart and mind of an international cult : a cult that was to spread to England from romantically-minded lands like California and the Antipodes . |
| 13 | He had a peculiar habit of sliding effortlessly from throwing me a bait to hitting me over the head with it . |
| 14 | Two people lingered , fingering the scarves , and she put her head down , feigning ignorance , or ineptitude , or just plain stupidity — whatever , so long as they went away without asking her the price of anything ! |
| 15 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 16 | • the possibility of setting up shared arrangements through personal contacts ( always worth giving me a call , I can be a communications link ) |
| 17 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 18 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 19 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 20 | Charles took on the job of improving Diana 's geography and also of teaching her the tricks of the trade — how to handle the different sorts of engagements , how to remember names and avoid missing or offending anyone , how to pace herself , how to address people , what sort of questions to ask and how to steer clear of banana skins . |
| 21 | I like to keep my ferrets sharp and that means marginally under feeding them the day before they are to be used . |
| 22 | If peasants could get out of hand when the government was trying to raise a militia , it was not unreasonable to suppose that they would run amok on learning what the government meant by freedom . |
| 23 | People strolled past without giving him a second look — couples hand in hand , families with pushchairs , groups of friends looking for a good spot to picnic . |
| 24 | One religious who responded to God 's calling to celibacy explained : ‘ Chastity does not consist of deadening our heart but rather in giving it a liberty of love , a single aim , a transparency to God . |
| 25 | If a student has a habit of over-ruddering in turns , it is often worth showing him the effect on the stall of using even a slight amount of extra rudder in a gentle turn . |
| 26 | Big manufacturers too often lag behind in knowing what the public wants in spite of their marketing departments . |
| 27 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 28 | In spring mulch the soil around it well after giving it a good soaking , this will encourage the soil to stay moist . |
| 29 | ‘ So , he waited till you were here before telling you the whole story . ’ |
| 30 | On the other hand , they felt that counsellors were generally helpful in sorting out their most pressing needs , particularly in finding them a more sympathetic GP and resolving their accommodation and financial problems . |