Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pos pn] [noun] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says effectively half my farm will disappear — we 'll have to replan our business to take that into account . |
| 2 | Surely he was only afraid his memories might fade , leaving him dispossessed . |
| 3 | When Rhiannon Petts was born nearly 4 months early in May last year she was just 7 inches long , so tiny her arm could fit through her mother 's wedding ring . |
| 4 | As I looked out of the window into the black emptiness , I wondered about the great mystery of death , and thought of Helen Burns , who was so sure her spirit would go to heaven . |
| 5 | It 's a folly that was built by the Earl and Countess of Coventry so all their friends could see it for miles around . |
| 6 | Erm when you 've finished sorting them out into their little piles , if you 'd like to then put each little each pile into a separate bag , so all your bones would go into one pile er one bag , erm all your pottery into another bag , and then this is where the label comes in . |
| 7 | If I were not so big my mother would place me across her knee and spank me . |
| 8 | If I 'm not careful my family will have grown up and I will have missed part of it . ’ |
| 9 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 10 | Attacking ( 10 credits ) : The higher the Attack rating , the more likely your guy will win in a ruck . |
| 11 | ‘ Mummy , ’ my son observed after overhearing the conversation , ‘ if you are n't careful your nose will grow very , very long . ’ |
| 12 | Christina was n't sure her husband would agree . |
| 13 | Thousands of people will be effectively priced out of the system , no matter how strong their cases may appear . |
| 14 | You 'll be surprised how tranquil your life will become and how much time to talk you will have . |
| 15 | No coffin-maker or funeral furnisher worthy of his reputation would have failed to dress a corpse , no matter how lowly his subject might have been . |
| 16 | How contemptible his flight must have appeared to her whom , not long before , he himself had urged not to try and solve her difficulties by running away . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ said St John , ‘ but unfortunately we can imagine how different our lives might have been . ’ |
| 18 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 19 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 20 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 21 | Er well I mean I want to find from A T S or someone like that how much their cars would cost |
| 22 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 23 | I had not realized just how cold my house might seem , she having no need to be working about the place . |
| 24 | Using Estée Lauder 's Destination range , which features plums and smoky greys , we showed how good her eyes can look with quite strong colours . |
| 25 | Almost all our village would go — brothers , sisters , relatives and friends , arriving home every fortnight , unless we had the good fortune to be working nearby . |
| 26 | I looked at Mum and thought if only she was as nice as she looked maybe all our lives would have been better . |
| 27 | If Cramlington had been a designated New Town then all their housing would have been built on land which was designated as housing land before it was sold to them . |
| 28 | Perhaps then all our children can have the best education money can buy . |
| 29 | And this is where Derek comes in ( think how useful his fax would have been with the more timid cross dresser ) . |
| 30 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |