Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you find it hard to accept authority from younger nurses who may have less overall experience than you , try to explain your difficulties to them rather than allowing resentment to build up between you . |
| 2 | But those preparing standard assessment tasks and other assessment instruments should consider them so as to minimise bias in the task or context and guard against any preconceptions of assessors ; and any comparison of results between single-sex schools or between those with different ethnic or social class populations should be made in the light of the evidence referred to above . |
| 3 | Thus lawyer C tended not to translate his clients ' chosen outcomes , whereas lawyer B had transformed them so as to facilitate translation . |
| 4 | It may be that the oleoresins of the dipterocarps have an effect on the bacteria of the fore-stomach of colobines and it is now necessary to study the interaction of these bacteria with fibre and the wide range of tannins , some of which shield protein from degradation in the fore-stomach , or denature them so as to enhance proteolysis . |
| 5 | The best is to obtain juveniles from a number of sources , rear them together and let nature take its course . |
| 6 | The principle which animates these planes — holds them together and establishes communication between them — can be visualized as the life force or vital force , the Prana of the Hindus , or the Ch'i energy of the Chinese , that elusive something which departs at death . |
| 7 | Parents may hold their babies close and convey love for and admiration of their bodies , or they may hold them away and register distaste , even disgust , for some of their bodily functions . |
| 8 | ‘ The traditional way to eat peas is to buy them separately and put salt and vinegar on them for a sweet and sour taste . ’ |
| 9 | He shook himself again and nudged Boxer . |
| 10 | He listened to me more and had time to answer my questions . |
| 11 | ‘ Curse this arm , ’ he said , ‘ I ca n't hold you properly or make love to you . |
| 12 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 13 | If you have any sense you 'll let me pay you what Crevecoeur cost you now and let hir come back with us . ’ |
| 14 | A MOTHER-of-four has been left devastated by burglars who ransacked her home and stole Christmas presents she had bought for her children . |
| 15 | She thanked him composedly and made room for Sir Thomas by her side . |
| 16 | Social ostracism followed outbursts of silliness , hubby drank a lot , did n't hit her often but did bad-mouth her excessively , and took up fishing ; went away for weekends with male friends she 'd never heard of , Claimed to be tackling rivers but kept bringing home filleted sea fish on the Sunday night , and was always suspiciously careful to empty his pockets when he gave her his clothes to wash . |
| 17 | If a man has a loaded gun we will probably recognize him immediately as having power . |
| 18 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 19 | Always try to scan a photograph as near to the size you want it rather than use software to re-scale it , optically reducing scanners are a great help here . |
| 20 | With gloss paint the cause is painting over a dirty or glossy surface without preparing it properly and applying undercoat before the gloss finish . |
| 21 | It ‘ betrayed ’ Isildur to the arrows of the orcs ; it ‘ abandoned ’ Gollum , says Gandalf , in response to the ‘ dark thought from Mirkwood ’ of its master ; it all but betrays Frodo in the Prancing Pony when it slips on to his finger and proves his invisibility to the spies for the Nazgûl then present . |
| 22 | She let it in , fed it well , took it to the vet : the animal plumped up and out : it lost its dinginess , it all but glowed orange in the dark . |
| 23 | They were permitted into it only when giving evidence and not more than one at a time . |
| 24 | Use it tonight and see progress tomorrow . |
| 25 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 26 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 27 | Try it now and take advantage of this attractive Beatrix Potter books offer . |
| 28 | Lee was fiddling with the bag , opening it again and knocking grain caught in the folds of the sack on to the floor . |
| 29 | You know that er French pol There was er factories away out at that just er that did nothing else but take chair work you know . |
| 30 | Of course some of them like doing one job more than others ; I 've got one gardener who likes doing nothing else but cutting grass — well , he 's quite welcome to do that because the rest of us are not fussy . |