Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It conditioned my hair really well but I think I may have used it too often because my hair became a little TOO soft to style after a while ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The brush gripped my hair really well and was easy to control . |
| 3 | I lost my accent very quickly and my style of speech which betrayed a cross-fertilization of three cultures — Chinese , Malay and Indian . |
| 4 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 5 | Well , that 's where you 're in error , both of you , because I 've set my course as far as you 're concerned , Master Tristram , and now I 'll hold to it . |
| 6 | I would prefer to finish my sentence here even though I 've only got three weeks to go . |
| 7 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |
| 8 | Only I would wish to tell my sister as soon as possible and put paid to her nonsense . |
| 9 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 10 | ‘ It is n't very high on my list of priorities but I guess I 'd change my mind soon enough if I were to meet the right person . ’ |
| 11 | Its images unfold in my mind as effortlessly as a story riding on the voice of a parent , a voice so familiar it disappears , entering in the half-dark , soluble in dreams . |
| 12 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 13 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |
| 14 | If I want to visit a bank for a few minutes , I park my car as near as possible as many do , to be able to rush in and out again as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , send me your letter , and I promise to reconsider and let you have my reply as soon as possible . ’ |
| 16 | It is our custom to bathe in the streams near my home very often and wash always before eating . |
| 17 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 18 | I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship , still on his feet , was embarking on a further point . |
| 19 | Oh , sweet heaven ! ’ she cried as I entered her , my weapon as hard as any spear . |
| 20 | I love my fiancé very much but his personal hygiene leaves a lot to be desired , and judging by the conversations I 've had with friends , their men are just the same . |
| 21 | I could prove my point much better if I kept on , I 'm determined , so I kept on . |
| 22 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying anything because it 's none of my business as far as I 'm concerned |
| 24 | I went to my room as often as I could , and then after a week I went to the local Employment Exchange . |
| 25 | A winning attitude says , ‘ I do my job as well as I can , so please respect me . ’ |
| 26 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 27 | You know my name as well as I know yours ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Meaning , I can have my say so long as I do what you tell me ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I shall get you in and out of my palazzo as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 30 | My mother was always ill , my father often away or working . |