Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I also pass on my thanks to your master for providing such a great venue for my business lunches . |
| 2 | I have no anger , only my love for him , ’ said Mrs Pratley . |
| 3 | Also , it 's only my word against theirs . ’ |
| 4 | And it 's coming down my shoulder to my hand . |
| 5 | Seventeen blissful years with nary a thought of green sunblock , purple reflective goggles or navy blue knockers and not a knot in my stomach , in anticipation of hurtling off a glacier with sweat running down my longjohns into my boot-bindings . |
| 6 | ‘ We always started seriously , usually discussing Louisa and perhaps her problems with her legs which stopped her doing her old-time dancing . ’ |
| 7 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 8 | The grandness of the meal , and how much of it you pay for , depends upon the expectations of yourself and your guests and perhaps their relationship to you . |
| 9 | For the import of the " new " sense of design which I have hypothesised could be developed from these sketches is its interaction with social forces — literally its forming of them . |
| 10 | And it was surely only her memory of her mother that made it repulsive . |
| 11 | From the other side , leaving only her fingers around its edge , she said , ‘ Good-night . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's only her word against yours . ’ |
| 13 | And still she did not go , but hovered , touching with long fingers along his shelves of vessels , reaching up to rustle the hanging bunches of herbs overhead , keeping only her profile towards him . |
| 14 | Standing over him , she saw how very old he must be , with the skin of his face and neck pleated in heavy folds of wrinkles and his wild hair quite sparse and white , and only her respect for his years prevented her from shaking him . |
| 15 | Still , he wanted to keep something of that spirit , if only its dauntlessness in what looked like a hopeless future ; for similarly contemporary reasons he wanted to offer his readers a model of elementary virtue existing without the support of religion . |
| 16 | Prime Minister Vorster had threatened to take action against English-language newspapers which refused to tone down their criticism of his government , and these included my paper , the Daily Dispatch , and the Herald of Port Elizabeth . |
| 17 | The rain was cold on their heads and streamed down their necks inside their clothing . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the Croats , throwing down their arms in their bivouac areas , had commenced moving down the main road in a dense mass , urged on by the Partisans at the back who were discharging arms in all directions . |
| 19 | In one study subjects were required to telephone the local weather information service on awakening , and to record a few details of the weather forecast on the top of their diary sheet before writing down their accounts of their dreams . |
| 20 | The thunder burst with a grand crash above our heads , and the heavens flung down their contents upon us . |
| 21 | Remember here that some people do not like seeing you write down their words for it interrupts their flow of thought . |
| 22 | Besides , I did n't fancy going to the Chapel and having all the family looking down their noses at me . |
| 23 | The stained-glass knights and their ladies looked down their noses at us rollicking serfs . |
| 24 | Simon , s brother , John , saw himself as one of the new breed of Conservatives , who were not bound by class ; yet he complained at length about other branches who ‘ look down their noses at us ’ . |
| 25 | Do n't look down their noses at you . |
| 26 | It 's just that New York fashion people look down their noses at you unless you 're a graduate of a fancy school of design . ’ |
| 27 | Those the people that have been there and put down their names on it ? |
| 28 | Five grandfathers are less favourably remembered as drunkards : at least two passed down their habits to their sons — ‘ dad had a poor bringing up ’ — while a third son was provoked into signing the teetotal pledge . |
| 29 | She felt his big rough hand running along her body outside her new dress . |
| 30 | By pumping its throat muscles , the fish draws air down its throat to its pouches . |