Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth . |
| 2 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |
| 3 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 4 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
| 5 | She turned , wrenched open the door and hurled herself down the spiral staircase , pushing blindly through the group below , tears streaming down her face . |
| 6 | Dragging myself down the unlit hallway floor like a slug , I coiled myself back , back to the back room , and ate and waited . |
| 7 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 8 | They ca n't ever understand that if your desire is to go to the furthest limits of yourself then the actual form your art takes does n't seem important to you . |