Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growing out of childhood involves a great many major changes , so it is not surprising if teenagers seem totally self-absorbed and may sit for hours apparently doing nothing but day-dreaming . |
| 2 | ‘ Rebecca practically accused me of starting the fire , and you believed her . ’ |
| 3 | As we shall see later the social anthropologist 's view of society as a network of person-to-person relationships almost takes it for granted that all human interactions can be broken down into elements of binary exchange of this kind . |
| 4 | Examinees sometimes answer it by saying : ‘ B can sue A but he will fail . ’ |
| 5 | Pink riding hats , turquoise waistcoats , stetsons ( Jane just stopped herself from asking where the corks were ) and they wore all these glories even when they were mucking out . |
| 6 | His mood also deterred him from ringing Dottie Banks . |
| 7 | Squatters had moved into their house and a sign on the window legally barred them from entering . |
| 8 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 9 | Thus accommodation here is fresh and modern , and the management now prides itself on offering the most comfortable of stylish , up-to-date amenities . |
| 10 | Still , that discovery never stopped me from making another collection of the glistening best ones that same night . |
| 11 | But days and weeks passed , and Mrs Reed still said nothing about sending me to school . |
| 12 | How dreadful it would be if you hooked a big fish only to lose it through poking around with an inadequate net . |
| 13 | ‘ The workers in our group already have lots of knitting to do what I need now is another group of volunteers , ’ Moira said . |
| 14 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 15 | ‘ Her husband probably discourages her from learning English in case it gives her ideas beyond what he perceives to be her station , ’ said Amiss . |
| 16 | Mr today congratulated me for slapping Anthony . |
| 17 | WALES holds the record among the regions for the number of organisations actively involving themselves in getting new lines opened , new stations added and services improved . |
| 18 | Dr Mumby successfully defended himself against causing distress by performing allergy tests in front of others and of giving patients ' names to the press . |
| 19 | Owen normally took them for granted . |
| 20 | What 's worse , although one might start with some hunches in a mammalian brain , the anatomy of the chick brain is very different from that of mammals , and even now not well mapped , so I could n't afford inspired guesses derived from mammalian expectations — chickens hardly have anything worth calling a hippocampus , for example . |
| 21 | The man 's Jacobitism clearly prevented him from securing any alternative office , and the division of the collectorship had to be resurrected . |
| 22 | Knitters often ask me about knitting double jacquard , saying that they do n't like the floats on single-bed Fair Isle fabrics . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the weather conditions often prevent you from learning gradually , unlike a ski slope where you can choose the degree of difficulty of each individual run . |
| 24 | Although most of this chapter has been given over to an exposition of the policy inefficacy proposition which was grounded in the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework where variations in the absolute price level figure prominently , the reader should note that many new classical writers simply take it for granted that , in a competitive economy , markets clear on average over time . |
| 25 | For example , they may force the potentially inefficient firms either to join them in adopting cost-saving innovations which involve some disruption of current working practices , or to go to the wall . |
| 26 | this is a restriction on the debtor personally preventing him from disposing of or dealing in any property owned by him . |
| 27 | Doing television only teaches you about doing television really . |
| 28 | AN undercover paramilitary group emerged in Colombia yesterday dedicating itself to ending the country 's wave of bombings and drug terror and offering a $5 million reward for the cocaine king Pablo Escobar — dead or alive . |
| 29 | Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time . |
| 30 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |