Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We walked further than that when we went to Crackside . |
| 2 | In nineteen eighty two , a loaf was thirty seven P and in ninety sorry eighty two , thirty seven P , ninety two , it 's fifty four P and er I 'm reliably informed by er my wife that you can actually get loaves less than that if you go to the er large supermarkets where they 're discounting the bread to get you in the store obviously . |
| 3 | Mick was up earlier than usual and we sat on jerry-cans , warming our hands on mugs of tea . |
| 4 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 5 | Viola Machin looked even more aristocratic than usual as she expatiated on Walter Machin as working-class novelist . |
| 6 | A harmless grass snake , I concluded , although I must admit that the proximity of the Reptile Centre did make me a touch more circumspect than usual as I made for the summit . |
| 7 | This account is couched in computational terms , which are objective rather than subjective but which relate to what one might call the ‘ structure ’ of phenomenology . |
| 8 | Normandin was a precious link to that other world that held John and I was more excited than nervous as we walked to his apartment near the Champs-Elysées . |
| 9 | They are people striving for purpose and meaning in circumstances that are usually much less than ideal and which call for constant adjustment , adaptation and redefinition . |
| 10 | Daniel Barenboim looked more than fine when he strode into Carnegie Hall . |
| 11 | I make the point because , in the report that we are debating , we make several recommendations and we wish the Government to take them more seriously than those that we made in the past . |
| 12 | They were rumoured to wait until dark and them to cross into the white suburb and steal wallets from trousers draped across bedroom chairs while their white owners slept . |
| 13 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 14 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 15 | ‘ Governors do as much or as little as they care to , ’ says David White , editor of the island 's only daily newspaper , the Royal Gazette . |
| 16 | It looks healthy and comes to the top of the tank , as usual when I walk into the room . |
| 17 | The sitting-room light at Lomond View was on as usual as she turned into the darkened driveway . |
| 18 | In training though you can still have the same problem erm you know perhaps towards the end of the session you 've probably seen it as and I , I 'm guilty of it myself cos we 're trying to rap on through it as quickly as possible so we get in ya way by six o'clock or that so we break all the rules late in the day |
| 19 | André , Alyssia discovered , proved to be alarmingly persistent in his promise to see her as much as possible while she remained in France . |
| 20 | Please could you let me know as soon as possible if you agree to this and then I can go ahead with the arrangements . |
| 21 | Please could you let me know as soon as possible if you agree to the siting of the skip . |
| 22 | He needs time skills as well , instead of just doing things as soon as possible because you get to the things that become more pressing take over , |
| 23 | The guide-lines for the course , as regards its fitting into the Chinese way of thinking , have been very gently imposed , and we are wondering whether we shall be as fortunate as this when we move to the other cities . |
| 24 | We might say we perceive them as separate because they vibrate at different frequencies . |
| 25 | I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the men I know who were desperate to experience fatherhood and regarded a woman 's desire for children as paramount when it came to choosing a partner . |
| 26 | Members would like the people they represent to be able to watch as much as they wish of their MPs at work , and whenever they wish , without being dependent on the editorial and journalistic selections of the broadcasters . |
| 27 | Now Cézanne 's art , despite its use of simple , often almost geometrical forms , could never be described as conceptual although he did of course impose a very rigorous sense of pictorial order upon his subjects . |
| 28 | But of course , the ‘ life from space ’ hypothesis does not answer the question of how the very first organic molecules arose ; and it seems at least as likely that they arose on primitive Earth as elsewhere . |
| 29 | The clock in the hotel foyer showed the time as nine-fifteen as she pushed through the doors and walked through the patio . |
| 30 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |