Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 2 | I put on my stern voice so I would n't giggle . |
| 3 | ( These are only my personal feelings and I would n't want to put anybody else down for the way they dress . ) |
| 4 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
| 5 | This is so much my own trouble that I did n't want my husband 's name to come into it . |
| 6 | Do n't go in there and that could have gone down my whole body as I was walking through everything keeps falling off . |
| 7 | It 's entirely my own fault if there are consequences . ’ |
| 8 | So my two boys and I took it prisoner . ’ |
| 9 | There were three brothers , Jacob , Phillip and John , who were very much their own men and who would stick to a viewpoint through thick and thin . |
| 10 | What would distress me would be if Scotland were not able in such a process to express democratically her own voice and her own vision of the European future and of the future of Scotland in Europe . |
| 11 | The police harass them , and have closed down their weekly flea-markets and their all-night parties . |
| 12 | More than a century later the emperor Julian ‘ the Apostate ’ was complaining that the Christians look after ‘ not only their own beggars but ours as well ’ . |
| 13 | The whole world fell away beneath us as we soared upwards , and leaning back and enjoying it I watched the little valley unfold along its twisting length until I could see away into the main Dale with the great hills billowing round and white into the dark clouds . |
| 14 | As his hands slid down her upper arms and he drew her slowly but inexorably towards him , her throat grew dry . |
| 15 | The Duke found himself staring down her powdered cleavage as she curtseyed . |
| 16 | He undressed her with care ; slipping the loose silk dress from her shoulders , and helping it down her slim body until it fell in a circle around her feet . |
| 17 | The weight of the lorry , see the lorry weighs something itself so its total weight when it 's got its load on is eight hundred plus a hundred times the number of engines on it . |
| 18 | But what drove him on was less his outsize libido than his desire to prove a point and win public acclaim : ‘ Everyone thinks I 'm going to die . |
| 19 | But it looks more likely that the one-time England midfielder will start only his second game since his £2 million move from Arsenal in the summer . |
| 20 | The Peace Committee cited not only his religious work but his ‘ struggle for the liberation of Tibet ’ . |
| 21 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 22 | It 's only his third run and he 's he 's in the most competitive two and a half mile chase in the year . |
| 23 | FIATA now supplies an air waybill form which allows the freight forwarder-consolidator to sign as a contractual carrier , in a box in which he fills in his full name and his capacity as a contractual carrier . |
| 24 | It affects not only our emotional well-being but our physical condition too . |
| 25 | Unless you are a member of a joint research team , the results will represent entirely your own work and your examiners will judge it accordingly . |
| 26 | It 's entirely your own fault if you chose to stage a lie-in in your cabin . |
| 27 | We have stupidly cluttered our lives to the point of frenzy , cramming our culture down our own throats until we choke on it . |
| 28 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 29 | She had gone to the cloakroom at the back of the building to put on her white coat and he had gone to the box in Chief Inspector Martin 's office to switch off the system which protected the inner doors of the main Laboratory rooms . |
| 30 | He wanted badly to creep into her arms and be told he had done marvellously well , that she had put on her red dress and her new pumps specially for him , for his seduction . |