Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell me some bits then and work out Could you draw a picture of |
| 2 | I said good-bye to Uncle John and Aunt Janie , gathered my few belongings together and bought a one-way CPR ticket to Vancouver . |
| 3 | We gathered my scattered things together and made our way up to Claro leaving dribbles of wet in our wake . |
| 4 | ‘ Just roll up the carpet , take it and its grisly contents downstairs and have it burnt . |
| 5 | Employees were able to take advantage of Black Horse Relocation 's guaranteed home sale programme to sell their old properties quickly and purchase houses in the new area . |
| 6 | They were with Mr Mandela until 10pm , much of the time he and Mrs Sisulu simply recalling their old days together and recounting what they had done all these years . |
| 7 | PUTNEY buried one of its favourite sons yesterday and bore testament to a passing era . |
| 8 | It seemed long ago that she had left her teenage years behind and faced college and a job with determination . |
| 9 | However , many exporters import the materials and components used in their exported goods rather than buy them locally . |
| 10 | to develop opportunities , relationships and patterns of living , in line with their individual wishes rather than rule of thumb normality ; |
| 11 | Jobs says NeXT has left its loss-making days behind and claims the privately-held company will be in a position to make a profit in 1993 . |
| 12 | For these teachers the time taken up by their extra activities more than repays itself in renewed zest and self-confidence in school . |
| 13 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 14 | Although organisations recognise that employees may not always be able to refit old carpets or curtains in the new property , policies do often include a statement to the effect that staff should make every effort to adapt their existing possessions rather than buy afresh . |
| 15 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 16 | Julia felt too tired and afraid to speak , but she lifted her heavy eyelids again and looked at him . |
| 17 | It concluded its deliberations with a series of ringing statements on the desirability of a united Europe , with some common institutions , within which ‘ the European states must transfer and merge some portion of their sovereign rights so as to secure common political and economic action for the integration and proper development of their common resources ’ . |
| 18 | The rational expectations hypothesis challenges macroeconomists of widely differing outlook to re-examine the short-run dynamics of their respective models so as to check that no assumption of irrational behaviour has been implicitly or inadvertently embedded within the structure of the model . |
| 19 | The basic idea ( see Figure 9.2 ) was that members agreed to maintain no more than a 2¼ per cent band around all their respective currencies so as to set a limit to the degree to which exchange values could fluctuate ( the ‘ snake ’ ) . |
| 20 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
| 21 | In the main , however , they employ their temporary workers directly and issue them with some sort of employment contract . |
| 22 | power ( potency ) impotence have their approximate equivalents everywhere and serve to designate a focus of abnormality . |
| 23 | They also tended to know their middle-class patients better and communicated with them better than with their working-class patients . |
| 24 | She swung her shapely legs inside and began talking as he switched on the ignition . |
| 25 | Watching a small , speckled lizard sunning himself on the trunk of one of the trees , Luce made an attempt to push her uneasy fancies aside and fulfil her half of the bargain . |
| 26 | They did n't see their prewar friends again and did n't replace them , it was hard to know why . |
| 27 | Regarding the second theme , market liberals concur with radical liberals like Illich that professionals and bureaucrats tend to promote their own interests rather than meeting the needs of their clients . |
| 28 | Resources should be used to equip people to act in their own interests rather than to pauperise them by treating them as dependents . |
| 29 | Headmen were inclined to use police powers in their own interests rather than act as bureaucratic tools . |
| 30 | As people identify their own problems collaboratively and begin to analyze the conditions that contribute to the problems , they can develop strategies that are appropriate for their own culture , time , and place . |