Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limpar , on his way back from international duty with Sweden in Oslo , told me : ‘ Shearer is top class , a striker I rate very highly . |
| 2 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 3 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 4 | M. I 've never really thought of M objectively before , as another person . |
| 5 | The champagne I spurned so imperiously … |
| 6 | I would be grateful if at some point Mr you were to deal with er Doctor 's er most recent comments on the Greater Crested Newt , since of course I 've only just had those er more or less on coming into this room , and I have n't had a chance |
| 7 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I feel all right . ’ |
| 9 | Before I left the fortress , in the late afternoon I climbed once more up to the guardian 's hut to say goodbye . |
| 10 | If the terms of Bell 's inequality are calculated from the composite wave function I mentioned above then the inequality is found to be violated ; on the other hand , it is always satisfied for wave functions that are simple products . |
| 11 | Returning to the front of the croft I batter once more on the door , knowing full well that I shall never see her again . |
| 12 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 13 | In Ystradgynlais , he regained that ‘ wonderful feeling ’ , lost in ‘ years of perfecting the painter 's craft ’ , of having , ‘ felt that having a soul and a mind I needed little else ’ . |
| 14 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 15 | He 's making it sound as if I was stretched on a couch , locked in a room with a ‘ Do not disturb ’ sign on the door while Sir Matt , the doc and a priest I have certainly never met , got to work straightening me out , socially , medically and religiously . |
| 16 | In this chapter I have once more attempted to describe the work of two pioneers , while at the same time using their work as a platform for discussion of issues which are crucial to my own philosophy . |
| 17 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 18 | Is n't this all , to use a term I 've so far studiously avoided , too New Age for comfort , with all its dubious connotations of exploitation , escapism and Wyndham Hill music tapes , whose utter blandness makes the most soporific MOR music seem positively hardcore ? |
| 19 | Heart in mouth I continue more cautiously to a sound belay in the upper gully . |
| 20 | I was allowed to go there on condition I came straight home again every afternoon to do the washing and ironing and to clean the house and cook the supper . ’ |
| 21 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 22 | Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies . |
| 23 | Indeed , there wo n't be much alteration from the side which triumphed so convincingly in Lithuania and Latvia although we could perhaps see the return of Nottingham Forest winger Kingsley Black at some stage . |
| 24 | Here , in the tangle of islands and fjords that is Patagonia , the volcanic chain becomes established on the South American continent with Mt Burney , an obscure , almost unknown volcano which has only once been visited by a geologist , in 1911 . |
| 25 | In a few years more , he was to decide that it was German blood which ran most compellingly in his veins . |
| 26 | She was able to carry out the simple reward programme which worked very well and then progressed to rewarding Luke for passing a motion in the lavatory . |
| 27 | Now that I have recalled this episode , another event from around that time in my father 's career comes to mind which demonstrates perhaps even more impressively this special quality he came to possess . |
| 28 | In which case , the random elements of a football match take charge , as well as that capacity for spreading fear which lurks most menacingly in tall , dark strikers . |
| 29 | There is abundant evidence from government and private research which shows quite clearly that manual workers , and particularly the unskilled , are more likely to suffer from both short-term and long-term unemployment than the non-manual groups . |
| 30 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |