Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 2 | John , like Clement , worked hard to secure the king at home and abroad so that he might one day embark on the crusade : the barons , the Scots , and the French were all pressured by John on Edward 's behalf . |
| 3 | That day at the Fontana di Trevi , you threw in a coin as all tourists do , so that you would some day return to Rome . |
| 4 | This did n't happen last year and I was cross it did n't but I 've organized it so that it will this year . |
| 5 | Only four miles from his home of Airyholme Farm , Cook must have visited the market here many times , just as you can each Thursday and Saturday . |
| 6 | He shrugged them off as he would soft core porno . |
| 7 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
| 8 | They 're very good with each other 's babies too , you can come in and not know which baby belongs to who , or a girl 's got an exam coming up and they 'll all muck in and change the baby for her . |
| 9 | John Wayne may be fresh-faced as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach ( 1939 ) but , a scant decade later , he was prematurely playing old men in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( 1948 ) , much more convincingly that he would 20 years later on as a real old man in the indulgent True Grit ( 1967 ) . |
| 10 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 11 | It can be regarded as private ownership at least as readily as it can public ownership . |