Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ‘ white ’ of the sky and clouds appears to me not as pure white , but as a very pale tone , so I start with a wash of cadmium orange fading out from the horizon upwards . |
| 32 | ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day . |
| 33 | Although you look like a child , you are not really a child at all because your mind and your powers of reasoning seem to be fully grown-up . |
| 34 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 35 | ‘ So you return to a cold and empty hotel room instead , ’ Kelly snorted in disgust . |
| 36 | I just want a big comfortable feel , so you look at a sofa and want to curl up in it . ’ |
| 37 | It 's alright for you to lie to us as many times as you want but when we 'd asked you once you get in a mood and walk off and do n't talk to us . |
| 38 | Once you start on a convention , you stay with it until the end of your story or poem . |
| 39 | As your hard disk seems to work OK once you boot from a floppy I 'd hazard a guess that the MS-DOS system tracks have been corrupted . |
| 40 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 41 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 42 | We have reverence for titles instilled in us when we are small : many of us have a slightly different response to a ‘ Dr ’ than we do to a ‘ Ms ’ , ‘ Mrs ’ or ‘ Mr ’ . |
| 43 | It was thought to be efficient to increase the yield to produce more than we need at a price which is more than we can pay and then dump the surplus on the world market , leaving the farmer with nothing . |
| 44 | ‘ We thought elegance and sophistication was n't quite enough , so we put in a lot of new stuff we 're going to use on tour . ’ |
| 45 | It looks alright on the surface , you 're not going through a hassle at the moment , and our memories are short , fortunately and once we come into a calm patch the hassles of yesterday are quickly forgotten . |
| 46 | Although they suffer from a shortage of personnel themselves it is the young churches who are now providing the Church with missionaries . |
| 47 | than they come to a halt , as if obeying |
| 48 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 49 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 50 | However , status attributes ascribed by birth in a caste society define an individual 's position in the stratification system much more completely and securely than they do in a class society . |
| 51 | Enterprise Projects are currently running in departments throughout the University , developing the curriculum and teaching methods to assist students in acquiring skills so they graduate with a degree PLUS . |
| 52 | They have er thirty minutes each , er twenty minutes A at least ten minutes have to be given over to you for questions , so they speak for a maximum of twenty minutes . |
| 53 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 54 | They walk on their knees and the front legs like this , so they stand on a knee and then those two legs , and then that knee and these two legs , so they |
| 55 | It will take a matter of minutes once they get into a routine . |
| 56 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 57 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 58 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
| 59 | I like it brown you know , if I go to a party . |
| 60 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |