Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard was born in 1862 in Thwaite and when he was twenty years old or so he left Swaledale to work for a London publishing firm . |
| 2 | When the other rabbit spoke , however , it was clear that either he had no interest in what Hazel had said , or else he had some other reason for not questioning him . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 4 | Next day we went ashore near Kapp Lee on Edgeøya , and had a long walk up through Rosenbergdalen , a fine valley which was much more vegetated than any we had so far seen . |
| 5 | It was a question so typically feminine that somehow it released part of the tension in him . |
| 6 | ‘ And you have been more quick-witted than even I expected . ’ |
| 7 | It was interesting that apparently he had n't chosen to . |
| 8 | Erm but it 's still , still reasonably clear and then we 've got this which is erm it 's all er constructed so that there 's a weighted score |
| 9 | Childbearing makes women dependent and thus they have less access to such freedom . |
| 10 | For a second he looked exasperated and then he murmured something in his own language and suddenly drew her to her feet , his hands gripping hers , steadying her and comforting . |
| 11 | We followed the road up the valley , crossing and recrossing over bridges which became progressively more primitive until finally they ceased to exist and the track disappeared into the river to reappear at the far bank . |
| 12 | ‘ The game was going OK and then it went up in flames . |
| 13 | So er you know they 're making their bed er nice and feathery and yet they denying it us and then that 's where the erm the sore point comes in . |
| 14 | Er with one T V commercial and yet you 've said that your initial thrust will be erm in three areas . |
| 15 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |
| 16 | She let Ferdinando teach her how to judge an aubergine ripe and a chicken fresh and then she copied those older women she had seen for the rest . |
| 17 | You can forgive or punish at the same time ca n't you , you can punish somebody and say that is wrong and yet you forgive them , that is you do n't hold it against them but you later on . |
| 18 | If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong and yet I have never understood the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling and I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery . |
| 19 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 20 | And then I 'd have the joy of taking it up to Uncle Jonathan to get a new signature and of course he 'd know that something had gone wrong and then he 'd |
| 21 | Nine times out of ten they 're both totally wrong and sometimes I have to stop myself from butting in . |
| 22 | But after our win against Slough confidence is high and anyway we like being the underdogs . ’ |
| 23 | Pat and David have known each other since they were eight years old and astonishingly they say they always knew they would marry ! |
| 24 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 25 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 26 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 27 | She twisted herself sideways in frenzy , screaming still and trying to wrench her wrists free and then he moved both her hands to one of his and gave her a light stinging slap across her cheek . |
| 28 | She had waited until this sympathetic-looking man , elderly , fatherly , was free and now she pleaded , " Can we have the gas on now , please , it is so cold … no hot water … it 's awful … " |
| 29 | probation officer with the state in Texas and they decide they want a trial at monitoring and they ask if I would be interested and so we begin the programme , the first in-house operative programme in Texas , and we set up our programme from scratch and started just kind of working on trial and error trying to make the thing worked . |
| 30 | The last tour I had the whole thing note-for-note worked out and it got a bit boring after a while ; this way it stays exciting and sometimes I pull it off and sometimes I die a death . |