Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 2 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 3 | She was going on as if she loved the fucking man , not just the fucking ! |
| 4 | It boils down to whether you think the extra features and quality are worth the extra money . |
| 5 | They 're all covered with smoke and grime left over from before they passed the Clean Air Bill , and the only place that might once have looked good is the Methodist Chapel at Southwark that 's been taken over by Fundamentalists . |
| 6 | FitzAlan turned on her , flinging her off as if she carried the plague . |
| 7 | That 's all we 'll end up with if we split the cash . " |
| 8 | But is this not something you just have to put up with if you join the Army ? |
| 9 | Fig 2 shows what you would end up with if you applied the formula to the chord voicings that were shown in fig 1 . |
| 10 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 11 | She held her hands out as if she held a sub-machine-gun and went ‘ Rat-tat-tat-ta . ’ |
| 12 | Then , we ask you return to the area of your car , but do not get back in because you run the risk of being injured erm , through cars ploughing into the back of you , far more than you , as much for a personal attack . |
| 13 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 14 | and walked around as if we owned the place . |
| 15 | How I was brought up , but a no one 's ever called me pompous I mean , the way walks around as if he owns the place , I think it 's really funny ! |
| 16 | They were just wandering about as if they owned the place . ’ |
| 17 | Concealing his pain as best he could , knowing the driver might pass on by if he thought the hailer was wounded , he stepped out into the street , and raised his hand to wave the driver down . |