Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What theme might we expect to find in the background of someone highly motivated by money over long periods ? |
| 2 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 3 | And er , last time I I get in touch , me mum told me , turned round and says to me , I do n't want any more mum , I says why , he says , oh she wo n't let me have pillow and then I then I think if summat else brought to light , I kill her |
| 4 | Macallister had one clear run at goal in the first half , and looked to have enough speed to round the keeper and score , but instead he pulled up clutching his back . |
| 5 | For the discourse analyst , it provides another way of accounting for sequences of utterances , though one apparently limited to discourse which is the mutual construction of more than one person . |
| 6 | Remember this was many years ago , so the magazine in question was a general craft magazine , not one especially written for machine knitting — those were very thin on the ground at that tine , in fact there was only one in this country . |
| 7 | He therefore lives The Natural , something apparently forgotten in favour of an alienating fiction . |
| 8 | In 1847 , during the famine in Ireland , Sutton sent over seeds of turnips , cabbages , and other vegetables to be used as possible alternatives to the diseased potatoes , and he experimented with new varieties of potato to find one better suited to cold , damp climates . |
| 9 | Second , of all the families of doubt this is probably the one best helped by reading . |
| 10 | The advent of Dutch William in 1688 may have brought a Protestant ruler , but it brought one already embroiled in war with Louis XIV , and ended a period in which the offshore island had played small part in the struggles of continental Europe . |
| 11 | Since the dual task paradigm is the one normally considered in relationship to Easterbrook 's hypothesis it should be noted that at least one alternative paradigm , perceptual dominance , produces completely contrary results , in non-aroused conditions central stimuli dominate attention while with mild arousal peripheral stimuli dominate ( Shapiro , Egerman & Klein , 1984 ; Shapiro & Johnson , 1987 ; Johnson & Shapiro , 1989 ; Shapiro & Lim , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | To be honest , I kinda like that loose , gliding feel , but when you 're getting everything totally nailed to perfection — the drums , the bass , the rhythms and the lead — the songs just have a ‘ snap ’ to them . ’ |
| 13 | And still there is something more needed in order to train a bird . |
| 14 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 15 | ‘ His [ Coleman 's ] House , doubtless was the one originally occupied by Vial , there being no other in the immediate neighbourhood of sufficient size for his family and resident Students . |
| 16 | On one side of the coin , there was an image of an ear of barley , plump kernels sprouting whiskers , each one finely raised in relief Ninfania had been arable before , not pastureland and orchards only , as today , but covered in fields of grain , a cereal basket of the ancient world , an Egypt . |
| 17 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 18 | A formal dinner means that the person opposite you is probably the only one well placed for speech readability ; those on either side of you are too close . |
| 19 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 20 | If the speaker is lying , for instance , it may be that what caused his utterance was something quite opposed to belief in what he meant to say , or a favourable attitude towards what his utterance was meant to commend . |
| 21 | If I see this and if I see that , then that means something else , and that something else taken in conjunction with something else that I see might suggest so and so , and so on . |
| 22 | That something actually achieved in writing gives no assurance , to reassurance for any writing still to be done . |
| 23 | ‘ I bought this because I wanted something brightly coloured for winter . |
| 24 | At the Sollum Voe anchorage this 145 tons of sea water was pumped out and the ships patched up , causing a day 's delay but also giving time for Christmas dinner and a night 's sleep with everyone fully recovered from sea sickness , a malady with no respect for rank or courage . |
| 25 | Where a statutory authority is under a mandatory obligation to supply a service , whether with a saving or nuisance clause ( that nothing shall exonerate it from proceedings for nuisance ) or whether without such a clause , the authority is under no liability for anything expressly required by statute to be done , or reasonably incidental to that requirement , if it was done without negligence . |