Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern scholars have found proof that from here they continued to withdraw north-eastwards , groups of them eventually making their way to the vicinity of the Tigris-Euphrates basin , the region which now constitutes the border between Syria and Iraq . |
| 2 | I had nice Tory ladies saying that to me in 1983 , and me vigorously nodding my agreement . |
| 3 | Then Stirling called everyone together to explain his plans . |
| 4 | It would suit them better to use their surplus cash to aid starving children in other countries . |
| 5 | As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future . |
| 6 | Fill them in to save your hospitals , not just the unions or the M Ps , Labour , Conservative , Liberal whoever they are , it 's your hospitals , it 's their hospitals they 're trying to close . |
| 7 | But despite the place given to women , most of the programmes are organised around a male presenter who ‘ manages ’ the women and brings them in to contribute their bit of knowledge . |
| 8 | George Eliot had loved the bonnets and sprigged china — because she knew them , or because writing them down gave her power over them , made her gentle and generous to their meaning ? |
| 9 | Then he saw one of the boys turn his back on the man he seemed to be dancing with , hook his fingers in the skimpy underpants , wriggle them down to reveal his bottom and then wiggle the bottom until it shook like a jelly . |
| 10 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 11 | And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record . |
| 12 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 13 | ‘ If the FA had asked me personally to select our opponents I 'd have gone for Orient , ’ said Still . |
| 14 | Our invaluable handbook , which otherwise retails at around £100 is included in membership — and members invariably find that knowledge gained via membership , be it from the Handbook , a seminar or fellow members , allows them annually to recover their membership subscription . |
| 15 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 16 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 17 | Money , of course , was scarce , and to help pay the bills she began to take in lodgers , moving me in to share her bedroom and letting my room and the attic . |
| 18 | It took several miles on the bus and a lot of questions still to be answered outside his front door before he invited me in to meet his mother . |
| 19 | If he is to continue , he should now be taking different movements and linking them together to form his fighting style — a format of defence and attack that becomes second nature to him . |
| 20 | Some of them obviously exceeded their duties in their zeal for examination improvement , as a memo of December 1942 makes clear : These examinations are to be regarded as a domestic affair of the Local Education Authorities for the conduct of which no responsibility must rest upon Inspectors … |
| 21 | But it was going to be a real bummer not having the little guy around to chat with while I single-handedly solved my cases . |
| 22 | However , he offered me a place ( perhaps out of consideration for my father ) , and I duly began my undergraduate career . |
| 23 | And I duly accept their off accepted their offer . |
| 24 | I uneasily awaited his first question about my journalistic ambitions . |
| 25 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 26 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 27 | Other special Air Force camps were built in different parts of Germany and it was in these that I eventually spent my rime as a prisoner . |
| 28 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
| 29 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 30 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |