Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I think it was Oh What a Lovely War that I first remember seeing you round about the university .
2 Where you out on the front , .
3 Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world .
4 seeing it not as a game between two teams but between his team and the opposition , a position which not only gave him a particular involvement , but also particular rights of commentary and criticism on the team , the management and the club .
5 Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size .
6 Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play .
7 It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment .
8 While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard .
9 It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before .
10 If I live to be 110 , I shall doubtless feel no more alien than anybody else in the prevailing subtopia because nobody will be working out-of-doors .
11 When he reached 120 matches in January , Gray had played more first-class games for Wellington than anyone else for a NZ province , in a career which began in 1975–76 .
12 The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards .
13 The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy .
14 He had a degree in fine arts from the Sorbonne ; he had further training from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , and the Beaux Arts in Paris ; he knew more about the history of jewellery design in general , and of the de Chavigny company in particular , than anyone else except the man he was going to see now .
15 But there was one man to talk to in Israel who knew more than anyone else about the land of Palestine .
16 That did n't stop him roving , teasing , passing and crossing that bit better than anyone else on the field , a constant delight to the eye .
17 The line at the Channel 4 press office is that Paul Merton now gets more female fan mail than anyone else on the channel .
18 Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes .
19 Alastair Martin ( Ards — Mike the Bike ) , second in the Grundig ATB championship last week , has a better record than anyone else on the Kilbroney Park course .
20 She probably knows more about the nineteenth century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world .
21 Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’
22 She probably knows more about the nineteenth-century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world .
23 It 's more to do with you than anyone else in the world ! ’
24 They came almost in ignorance of an often sublime short game — the big attraction was to see him smash a golf ball further than anyone else in the world and their adulation proved his undoing .
25 ‘ Bryan did no better or no worse than anyone else in the Turkey game , but that 's not the standard by which he judges himself .
26 It would be a reunion with her lover ; with him she loved better than anyone else in the world .
27 Now they will face bigger council tax bills than anyone else in the country .
28 The acquisition of more power than anyone else in the world .
29 This is the man , who , more than anyone else in the squad , on current form , we badly need to have inside the tent pee-ing out .
30 Britons have a deep-seated belief , fostered by the popular press and some politicians , that they are more heavily taxed than anyone else in the world except perhaps the Swedes .
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