Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing what appeared to be a borrowed jacket in place of her own heavy overcoat and shawl , something light enough to allow her to carry on even though the sun might go behind a cloud every now and again . |
| 2 | Well , it seemed as if as soon as my back was turned Mrs Carrow went off down there , even though you could n't normally get her to go no further than the garden gate , like I said . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd obviously been counting on me having one , because the chillim was poised at her lips , ready for her to pull in deeply when the surface leaves caught fire . |
| 4 | His own seminal research work is referred to by other writers , and his experience in studies of the history of child care , policy trends , practice and organizational issues enables him to take both abroad and a detailed view of this complex field of human need and the research carried out within it . |
| 5 | Legally , it will be harder for anyone to do so now that the separate protocol to which we are not party provides , for those who wish it , the opportunity to introduce such legislation . |
| 6 | The result is that women typically become ‘ equal ’ by having to do more , to stretch themselves to work as hard as a man , even when experiencing bodily processes that a male has never experienced . |
| 7 | When we got there the chucker-out told us to go in quickly because the film had started . |
| 8 | He told us to hurry back home after the picture had finished because it might get foggy later . |
| 9 | These definitions enable us to say quite categorically that a household 's expenditure on food is consumption — the food will be eaten within a short period of time and that will be an end of the matter . |
| 10 | About a dozen were still milling around , hurling themselves at the fur shop window , almost certainly bullet proof , the rest were arguing or wrestling with about ten policemen who were too busy to tell us to move on even when the lights changed . |