Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting on the next barstool was an antiques dealer called James ; he discussed his feelings with Clare for the next two hours and then took her to dinner at the Ox on the Roof , where she chose the most filling dishes . |
| 2 | Where you have a fairly long shelf , it is wise to add a horizontal back support . |
| 3 | If you decide that kit garages do not offer what you want , or you have a particularly awkward site to cope with , you may decide that you have no option but to design and build a garage to suit your requirements . |
| 4 | If your bed base is an unusual size or you want an even larger mattress , you can have one made to measure . |
| 5 | The experimenter instructed each child to pick up and talk about one toy and then applied a mild ‘ punishment ’ if he or she chose the more attractive of the pair . |
| 6 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |
| 7 | In indicating content and method they spawn ‘ approved ’ material of all kinds which , if used , serves to protect the individual teacher from any criticism which might arise were he or she to follow a more tangential or personalised approach to meeting curriculum goals . |
| 8 | Only they will probably both know that these must not include anything too worrying or controversial , which could create the type of tension and anxiety that can so easily build up in the elderly , particularly in the many who suffer from circulatory troubles , or who have a naturally anxious personality which has become even more vulnerable with age . |
| 9 | Our favourite was Brands Hatch , where we had a really good time . ’ |
| 10 | I suppose if we look at British history there was a period in the last century and earlier where we did a pretty good job of conquering people , but we do n't feel too badly about that , but we feel pretty indignant about Germany trying to take a bit more territory at various points . |
| 11 | I am , however , open to reasoned and informed argument and I await with interest your correspondents ' blueprint for reversing our economic decline , bearing in mind that the stark choice is that we either increase our earnings or we accept a quite considerable reduction in our living standards . |
| 12 | Then Mabel took charge , leading the way to the Men and Boys ' Outfitting on the first floor , where they took an equally long time comparing styles and prices of under vests , and shirts with detachable collars and cuffs . |
| 13 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 14 | First , there was an exodus of thousands of Catholics to the south , where they became the most implacable opponents of the Communist north . |
| 15 | On the porch outside the front door , I kicked off my sandals and pushed them to one side where they joined an already substantial pile of varying styles and sizes . |
| 16 | The substances pass from the blood vessels into the cells of the brain , where they affect the delicately balanced chemical processes on which the functioning of the brain is based . |
| 17 | To stop a child from acting in an unacceptable manner , you should arrange for him or her to terminate a mildly unpleasant situation immediately by changing the behaviour in the desired direction . |
| 18 | Another vivid example of this kind of reasoning was offered in a book on The Troublesome Boy ( 1936 ) by Dr H. S. Bryan , a medical officer in the child guidance service and an Assistant County Commissioner in the Boy Scouts , where he brought a little psychoanalytical inspiration to Scouting together with the romanticism of the movement 's founder . |
| 19 | Hawkins ' qualities in this sort of role were deployed again ln a film that brought together the American director John Ford and former Ealing writer T. E. B. Clarke , Gideon 's Day ( 1959 , Gideon of Scotland Yard in US ) , where he plays a slightly muddled police officer who , in true English fashion , only reveals his mettle under pressure . |
| 20 | USAC was fine and Mario was a star there , but to be a real star in America , you have to win Indianapolis , and that was one place , Mario recalls , where he had a really lean time of it . |
| 21 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
| 22 | A brief visit to the USA in 1926 was followed by a research fellowship at the London Hospital , where he established a long lasting friendship with Paul Fildes ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 23 | His sudden death shocked the world of Formula One racing , where he remained an extremely popular figure . |
| 24 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 25 | Or anything to avoid the potentially offensive gesture of actually leaving ! |
| 26 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 27 | And it seems to me that everyone overlooks a very vulnerable spot . |
| 28 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |
| 29 | And you 'll note that I prefer the somewhat old-fashioned personal touch to high-tech methods . |
| 30 | Now let me just add very quickly here , I am not going to tell you or anyone that I got the best out of Bomber Command . |