Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 2 | Banks have little desire to underwrite — it is risky and demands lots of precious capital . |
| 3 | In solid-state solar cells the junction between two materials of different electronic properties absorbs light and converts it into electricity . |
| 4 | Many a woman who considers herself kind , compassionate and unselfish has been horrified to catch a glimpse of something underlying that , something which is determined to catch and hold a person , which can be jealous and possessive and cares nothing at all for the claims of others . |
| 5 | Erm , right that gets us to the er performance analysis , and er graphs . |
| 6 | This can be uncomfortable and requires plenty of gnawing to relieve the growing pain . |
| 7 | A period of sharing your home is sometimes healthy , because it teaches you to be more adaptable and stops you from becoming too set in your ways . |
| 8 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 9 | The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality . |
| 10 | She 's totally loyal to Charles , absolutely discreet and sees it as part of her duty to provide Charles with those emotional satisfactions which set him up . ’ |
| 11 | She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting . |
| 12 | Regular use of a good cream helps keep hands soft and smooth and protects them from the onslaught of cold weather . |
| 13 | Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake . |
| 14 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 15 | Suppose , for example , Bill is very forthcoming and has lots of ideas on possible criteria . |
| 16 | His skin secretes a great deal of mucus which both keeps the young attached and prevents them from drying out . |
| 17 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 18 | The controversial hypnotist also transports volunteers to the hot Mediterranean and cold Arctic and entices them into conversations with men from Mars . |
| 19 | So many mixed feelings of guilt and anxiety , love and hate can blur the issue that it may be important to adopt the suggestion of one therapist and discuss all the issues with a wise counsellor , perhaps a minister or some other friend of the family , who knows most of the people concerned but has none of the strong emotional involvement of a family member . |
| 20 | In the first of a new series , which considers the properties of various media , MARTIN CHILD examines the brands available and puts them to the test . |
| 21 | ‘ We must tread carefully , because my postbag suggests that allegations of rape can arise from previously non-sexual relationships , where the man goes too far and persuades himself in the passion of a moment that ‘ No ’ means ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 22 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |
| 23 | She sees red and kills him with a very convenient weapon . |
| 24 | But Branson , 42 , does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner . |
| 25 | Since this brings out what they have in common and shows them to be on the same side , we too shall use ‘ Positivism ’ to include the Realist approach . |
| 26 | He folds the paper open and lays it on the desk . |
| 27 | He reports that the harvest had been very abundant but mentions nothing but potatoes , the surplus of which was being sent to the south , the earlies at £5 per ton which after deducting freight etc. leaves the farmer about £4–5–0 ; rocks were £4 per ton . |
| 28 | Another species , however , has only about twenty young but provides them with more yolk each and they remain within the sac until they become froglets . |
| 29 | It 's fast , flash , intelligent and makes everything on Radio One sound slow and middle-aged . |
| 30 | What people are frightened of is buying a property , finding the tenant goes bankrupt and leaves them with the running costs . ’ |