Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [conj] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Well , very briefly , the ideas was Freud in his early practice was getting stories from his patients that they had somehow been sexually interfered with or abused or something of the kind when they were very young , often by an older male friend of the family , a relative , or even their father and initially Freud thought these reminiscences were literally true .
2 The only problem with the theory , from the point of view of a journalist , is that agents — as opinionated and informed as anyone in the trade — are rightly jealous of their relationships with editors and publishers , and so they refuse to be quoted on anything critical .
3 The user should close down the LIFESPAN system if it is running and ensure that none of the other stand-alone LIFESPAN utilities are running .
4 They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision .
5 They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs .
6 She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother .
7 Mr Adamson , of Banklands Road , Darlington , has no connection with the former soldier but hoped that someone in the town might be able to help .
8 Mr Liddle accepts the need for some closures , but argues that none of the council 's own figures back the selection of Hustledown House .
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