Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The astonished reptile released its grip just long enough for Laba to break free and stagger off down the track — with the serpent in hot pursuit apparently loudly vocalizing with the same sibilant barks which we were later to hear ourselves while filming a python hunt . |
| 2 | It means that we can be involved straightaway with patient 's management when they 're admitted to hospitals within the Oxfordshire region , and so decisions can be made between the referring doctors and ourselves as regards the best policy of treatment . |
| 3 | Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of . |
| 4 | It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place . |
| 5 | Given the very real threat of political vetting , many in the community think it is better to say nothing than risk the wrath of government . |
| 6 | I would rather abandon Eton , Winchester , Harrow and all the rest of them than sacrifice the advantage of the grammar school . ’ |
| 7 | As always with selective , individual cases , there is more to them than meets the eye . |
| 8 | Loaded symbols Giles Sutherland reviews an exhibition of Philip Braham 's landscape paintings and finds more to them than meets the eye |
| 9 | But we make common cause in attaching more significance to them than do the theories ( except perhaps for Idealism ) discussed so far . |
| 10 | ‘ Although it was an ensemble piece , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I felt that Michael and Rita Tushingham were the co-leads because we structured the film more around the two of them than did the play , which was a fairly even four-hander . ’ |
| 11 | The occupation did nothing except to fuel the sense of outrage the Italians felt about their treatment at the hands of the older powers . |
| 12 | The Turks cautiously did nothing except invite the powers to maintain the Berlin settlement . |
| 13 | But so far Sergeant Juron had done nothing except walk the Emperor along , swaying , in their wake . |
| 14 | He said the RSSPCC would unconditionally oppose the programme ‘ on the simple principle that this can do nothing except prolong the distress and damage of the children , ’ regardless of the rights or wrongs of the authorities ' handling of the case . |
| 15 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 16 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 17 | To this the Queen returned a gracious reply which while maintaining the full impartiality of the Crown encouraged me to continue to do my best to serve her as her First Minister . |
| 18 | It was on the basis of such national concerns that the Committee attempted to construct a version of English which while serving the state in strategic , institutional , and cultural terms , would also appear free from state control because apparently grounded in free individual identity . |
| 19 | As far as anybody knew , he 'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs . |
| 20 | This is achieved by capacitor C3 , which whilst blocking the flow of d.c. , allows the a.c. audio signal at the lower end of resistor R4 to flow to 0V . |
| 21 | By the turn of the century , which was only ten years since his first professional engagement , John Tiller had amassed a great fortune for himself whilst changing the lives of working-class girls by giving them good wages and a career . |
| 22 | Although Hutcheson thought of himself as defending the reality of moral distinctions , and the genuineness of a morally good benevolence which was not egoistically based , other thinkers were not happy with his treatment . |
| 23 | Matisse saw himself as occupying a similar transitional role to Giotto , but it is , in a way , Giotto 's role turned around . |
| 24 | Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control . |
| 25 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 26 | He sees himself as having an intuitive , feminine aspect . |
| 27 | This is no exaggeration : though primarily a moralist , Arnold was almost equally a political reformer , and he thought of himself as performing a service to the state . |
| 28 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 29 | However , occasional background chords are introduced ( e.g. seventh chords on D , F♯ , A♭ , E , etc. ) which though overlaying the G minor chord , momentarily agree — very loosely — with the voice part . |
| 30 | In many cases though , the body-mind-spirit will heal itself if given the chance . |