Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 2 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 3 | The unfortunate queen , unable to take sunlight after her lengthy seclusion , was entirely swaddled in black cloth — in which she was undergoing an exercise so rigorous that we wondered if she would emerge from it alive . |
| 4 | It 's said to last for days even this great high that they get when they jump off and leap off these bridges or something on a bit of elastic . |
| 5 | It 's completely cordless so it goes where you go , and because it operates on both batteries and mains , you 're not tied to the nearest plug . |
| 6 | Some of the leaves turn yellowy-brown and I wonder if it is through lack of food . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's that sort of sexual feeling really because you are on a fantastic high and you feel as though you could do anything . |
| 8 | She let him pass her , fifty yards to the east ; the temptation to shout was wrong but she waited until he was at the hedge . |
| 9 | Yeah so so you 've got to be slightly careful but I mean if you already can use theodolites and things then in a sense I mean what do they mean by experience ? |
| 10 | it seems funny because we reckon when it rains , it 's it makes a difference |
| 11 | A little embarrassed because it looked as though she had been prying , Meredith murmured , ‘ I 'm not much of a cook . ’ |
| 12 | Very often there are schools , just across the road , full of children who will very probably become unemployed when they leave because they will not be equipped to fill any of the jobs that are available . |
| 13 | Clibber and Butterworth ; how odd that I cans till remember their names . |
| 14 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 15 | The darkness was so total that she wondered if they would even be able to proceed without the aid of a torch . |
| 16 | The blocks are produced because andesite lavas are so viscous that they flow as plastic , rather than liquid , materials and consist of an outer chilled surface of solid rock with a steady progression towards increasing plasticity in the hotter , central parts of the flow . |
| 17 | In fact I 've known people to go right in , so it , it , it 's not a simple job , you know , and they do take a great deal of risk with this , and I do , I mean it 's much more serious than I think than the government find , it should really work hard to try , to try to find something else . |
| 18 | People know this , they identify with this , they recognise that you 're back-tracking and it looks as though your ke case is hereby weakened . |
| 19 | And that 's paid erm to your spouse to you know to keep things sort of flowing if you like while the long term pension is sorted out . |
| 20 | Such hill-walkers are uncomfortable unless they look like the remnants box in an Indian wedding-sari shop . |
| 21 | You can be as gruesome as you like if the adventurers really start looking for bits and pieces ! |
| 22 | This is n't as easy as it sounds because all the DOS 5 files are compressed . |
| 23 | This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament . |
| 24 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 25 | I have noticed on my Brother electronic that not all patterns look as good enlarged as they do when knitted at normal size . |
| 26 | And I would be always be with John in the stable and I got until I got into er some danger walking er underneath a horses legs and he 'd he 'd send me out banned me from the stable and shut the door . |
| 27 | Right now the gossip in the town is that Ingrid is pregnant and it looks as though Olive King is about to become a star … about time too ! |
| 28 | This close to Christmas it would be packed solid and I doubted if Eddie would be out on time , but I was n't going to risk it . |
| 29 | Acrylic tends to dry less opaque than it look when wet , and it may take repeated overpainting when thin layers of colour are used to cover completely something underneath . |
| 30 | He looked so gorgeous that she tripped as she reached him in her high red heels , and landed against his hard chest with a gasp of shocked pleasure . |