Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I ha have my piece of cake later please ? |
| 2 | You may , perhaps , have thought that I put my point of view too emphatically to you on a matter on which you hold strong views , whereas I am not a partisan on the question of the death penalty . |
| 3 | ‘ If I could have got my nose in front again maybe I could have twisted it round but it was n't to be . ’ |
| 4 | Packages of that rare onion-skin typing paper which made my erasures of mistypings so easy came from your mother , who also sent you boxes of drugs , chiefly Dexedrine , those shocking-pink amphetamines which , I later discovered , are bad for the heart . |
| 5 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 6 | I found my own apprehension of form and my sense of humour very much the same as masons of around four hundred years before . |
| 7 | As it was , with Helmut gone , Jean-Claude had the time to convince me that my life in London not only lacked quality but was something of a farce . |
| 8 | My mum , as mums tend to do , had divined my state of mind rather shrewdly and moved over to the bed in a thoughtful kind of way . |
| 9 | Displaying his sense of humour , McKenzie quipped : ‘ I think I 've had my arms around Phil more often than I 've had them around my fiancee ’ . |
| 10 | They did n't use their feet much and did n't handle my style of bowling very well . |
| 11 | But then I return to the knifeblade , flexing gently under my weight as I try to shift my centre of gravity as far as possible over my feet to protect the belay . |
| 12 | It is incredible that my challenge in tournaments so often during this time had been to make the cut . |
| 13 | I think you can read all you want and talk to people as often as you want but , in my case , my understanding of Europe just simply did n't exist before I went there . |
| 14 | All viewers have the right to express their views on television either personally or within the framework of representative organisations . |
| 15 | By some means or other , people who have been forced to deny their beliefs , have eventually re-established their acts of worship either openly or clandestinely at whatever cost . |
| 16 | mountaineers come to this church in Bristol to train … to keep fit … to learn new techniques … its the only centre of its kind for miles around so its a base for all Central South climbers … |
| 17 | She 'd better make the most of the occasion and put her views on marriage more forcibly once she returned home . |
| 18 | This new equipment will be more automated than Abbey Hill , so the frigates will be able to bring their defences into action more quickly , without waiting for human operators to analyse the danger . |
| 19 | The individual must try to act to reduce their level of stress as soon as possible . |
| 20 | Marx argued that the state and its forms of intervention not only reflect the balance of class relations in capitalist society but atomise , and therefore diffuse ( and defuse ) , imminent class conflict . |
| 21 | Whatever resources were devoted to the transformation approach , the bulk of agricultural production continued to come from the millions of small farming families who were adjusting their forms of production only slowly . |
| 22 | This was the constant complaint of Arthur Young , among others , and the great sociologist Max Weber later put its link to consumption very clearly . |
| 23 | THE sister of fire death girl Natalie Godfrey lost her fight for life early yesterday . |
| 24 | The better-off farmers could send their sons as fee-payers to endowed grammar schools ( in Thame or in Oxford itself ) ; the gentry could take advantage of the railways and dispatch their sons to boarding-schools further afield . |
| 25 | They twist on their perches in positions never before seen in life-size British bird illustration , their eyes betraying a sense of character created by the artist 's pen . |
| 26 | This makes their speed of acquisition initially faster , but with the lack of knowledge of BSL grammar and rules the only strategy available is to impose English rules . |
| 27 | Journalist of the Year is Maggie O'Kane of The Guardian for her reporting from Bosnia as well as for dispatches from Dublin . |
| 28 | It really is sickening to have an aeroplane , which is worth its weight in gold out here , broken through damned bad handling . ’ |
| 29 | He must be at least six feet two , she decided confusedly , wondering why those blue eyes turned her legs to jelly so quickly . |
| 30 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |