Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [noun sg] and [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By the time I reach it , at this time of year , the house itself is usually nothing but one or two lighted windows in the darkness , with perhaps my wife and daughter ( see separate headings ) visible inside .
2 Dr John Gauden , who had managed to hold the Deanery of Bocking successively as an Anglican and as a Presbyterian , secretly claimed that ‘ This book and figure was wholly and only my making and design ’ , and demanded his reward .
3 PAMELA : Pray your honour , forgive me , only my father and mother .
4 He is as much my flesh and blood as Curtis is and he 's going to stay here .
5 So my journey and tale are about to commence .
6 Perhaps their fidgeting and silence had nothing to do with what he had said ?
7 Open galleries surround her three decks and only her saloon and dining-room are air-conditioned .
8 One might suppose that it would depend on all the complex features of the star from which it had formed — not only its mass and rate of rotation , but also the different densities of various parts of the star , and the complicated movements of the gases within the star .
9 Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction .
10 The waiters , and particularly the wine waiters , are so beautifully trained that you notice only their discretion and skill — you hardly even see them filling your glass or taking your plate .
11 These graduates have already supplied not only their name and address but also names of colleagues , which are now held on database .
12 They had in common only their youth and health and the fact , like all women , of each being someone 's daughter .
13 It is also true that Kilvert had no gift for self-analysis , and further that the diary was impoverished by his widow 's removal from it of the volumes which apparently described not only their courtship and marriage , but the two most profound of Kilvert 's previous affairs of the heart ; though she left the frequent passages describing Kilvert 's passionate attachments to young girls , whose fundamentally erotic nature it is clear that neither she nor Kilvert himself recognized .
14 There is no proposal to ban cigarettes — only their advertising and promotion .
15 No charges are required from any candidate , only their time and effort to complete our study programme .
16 Policing in Northern Ireland is a very controversial topic in a sensitive environment , and this sensitivity has implications for the research ( on which see Brewer 1990 b ) , especially its design and location , as well as for the validity and reliability of the results .
17 More ominously its size and capacity also took into consideration future military needs .
18 Not so her mother and father .
19 The less stock , the better its health and growth rate .
20 Asked how much his relationship and sense of responsibility towards the rest of the band gave him the impetus to get his act together , there 's a long embarrassed silence .
21 Perhaps his heart and mind leaped together at the daily realisation of his dream to take his beloved Johnson on this tour to these parts .
22 Or perhaps his son and heir ?
23 In Wycliffe 's temporary office there was only one small , dirty window high up in the wall , but the sun happened to be shining through it and so his desk and chair were placed in a pool of sunlight .
24 So his Mum and Dad were right after all .
25 Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty .
26 Stealing from the camp one night with only his rifle and iron rations , wading the river at the border , finding a sympathetic ship 's captain to take him to Sweden , working there for a while and then making his way down through Poland and Germany and the rest of Europe , village by village , shtetl by shtetl , always moving west , America the ultimate goal , until he reached Cork .
27 Our individual and collective responses to these questions will affect not only our understanding and interpretation of the following chapters of this book but , more importantly , the nature of the school process as experienced by teachers and pupils in the future .
28 Design a template for each type of document that you produce and save it as a separate file — even if it is only your name and address and other information about the page layout and design .
29 Pruning in the second and subsequent years should try to begin a routine or system — and only your cultivation and experience will determine this — of removing wood that has flowered in proportion to the amount and vigour of new wood that the individual plant puts up .
30 After a certain arbitrary figure — a hundred thousand , ten thousand , even a thousand , it all depends upon how much your heart and mind can take — any increase in numbers becomes meaningless .
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