Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [coord] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In the end it is only trial and error that one settles on a suitable selection .
2 ‘ I 'll miss you though , Kate , you 've kept me together body and soul since I lost Mandy .
3 You will save yourself much time and trouble if you have a course of lessons from a qualified teacher ( all the information you need is in the next chapter ) .
4 But I was kind of forced into that because it was only bass and guitar and I was trying to do as much rhythm as I could , but stab a few notes in here and there to make it sound like there was more than there really was .
5 It was always touch and go whether he would be fit to take his place , and he only got the nod after coming through a trial game without any problems .
6 It was always touch and go whether he would be fit to take his place , and he only got the nod after coming through a trial game without any problems .
7 But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ .
8 I put his age at forty , but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome , and he knew it , for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen 's hand , and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away .
9 Printed material is suitable for both orientation and instruction and it has the advantage of ease of use for casual library users and those too shy to ask for help .
10 Perhaps you could say to both daughter and stepdaughter that you are finding it hard to cope with your husband and need to ease up on the child minding .
11 The new classical school was distinctly more categorical in both analysis and prescription than its predecessor of over six decades earlier .
12 English was defined as including both language and literature and we were to take into account relevant aspects of drama , media studies , information technology and information handling .
13 English was defined as including both language and literature and we were to take into account relevant aspects of drama , media studies , information technology and information handling .
14 We used to go up there for our breaks as well morning and afternoon and they used to have dances sometimes in the evening .
15 The blue vein in Davide 's temple beside the scar where the bullet had entered throbbed and swelled to give warning when one of his bone crunchers was on its way ; lying quietly stretched out in the shuttered bedroom of their apartment , he was able to defend himself , as it readied to pounce , testing its grip on his nerves as a cat tests its claws on the obliging furniture ; he could slip under the velvet cloth of numb unconsciousness , without plunging his family into squalor and even starvation and illness as he had risked doing-as he had done — on Crosby Street near the Bend in Little Italy .
16 Indeed Poly and Plugger as they have been christened look set to live long , happy and fruitful lives .
17 They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station .
18 We can not explain our hostility to internal compromise by appeal to principles of either fairness or justice as we have defined those virtues .
19 At the end of one debate there was nothing left of either Fascism or Communism when he had finished with them .
20 She 'll have to find a path around it either north or south and there 's no path except the ride . ’
21 He said I am sure I am sure that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord .
22 If there is indeed the same relativism in physics and in morals , should not one individual 's choice in his particular situation be as unimpugnably right or wrong as his measurements of distance and duration ?
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