Example sentences of "[adj] and [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most recent biographer has observed that ‘ because Aymer de Valence held the English earldom of Pembroke and spent his entire career in English service it is easy to forget that in origin he was almost entirely French and that he retained very close links with France throughout his life ’ . |
| 2 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |
| 3 | But it was n't OK and when I reached for my bishop , he 'd wave his arms over the board like a referee who 's just counted somebody out — and change his move . |
| 4 | And the quality systems will help us to monitor and identify where things are going wrong and once we know what is going wrong , we 've got an opportunity to put it right . |
| 5 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 6 | I always say it will be done in a fortnight ; this gives me more leeway if things go wrong and if I get the garment finished before the two weeks are up the person is usually delighted . |
| 7 | My scream brought Mum up to see what was wrong and when she saw my face she ordered me back into bed . |
| 8 | But Liz revealed her hair was naturally curly and that she prefers to dry it straight . |
| 9 | The sky was aflame and though she tried not to think of the sunsets from Fernando 's cliff-top it was virtually impossible . |
| 10 | But however one expresses it , all the evidence is that the quantum phenomenon and the uncertainty principle are unavoidable and that they occur in every branch of physics . |
| 11 | He is old and when he dies he selfish son inherits the land . |
| 12 | So the craft show , er adults are a pound , there 's easy free parking , children are free and if you want two tickets give us a ring , but make a note Nottingham University , this craft show , Jessie Conference Centre , Nottingham University , Friday and Saturday November the twenty six and twenty seventh from ten A M till six P M. |
| 13 | view is that one hopes that my hopes are that of the direct report you er worked for erm is equal and competent and is erm in a sense courageous and brave and that they realize that sometimes to get the best results you have to do things which are perhaps challenging and orthodox |
| 14 | damp and If you get me back to mum 's for about three o'clock time at the latest to take her to Osborne House . |
| 15 | As I say , I only get 36 off the social and when I get it on a Monday , I usually spend 30 right away on food for the kids . |
| 16 | After the ‘ Talk to Your Daughter ’ album came out , people started getting interested and so they started making the guitar again and people started buying it ! ’ |
| 17 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 18 | It was all terrifically exciting and when I got the parts I could hardly believe it . |
| 19 | Can I just point out that something here , erm , was , I think I mentioned about my children it was the height of the table and its just so little that , that they indicate their in height in this picture , but it is there and , erm , that , I found that really very exciting and as I say the , The Threes , it , the three goblets , the three apples the three puppies , so often I 've , I 've found that there is three sets of , three objects and in |
| 20 | Seaside holidays are always popular and whether you want a family caravan or friendly small guesthouse or hotel you 'll find it on Somerset 's forty miles of varied coast . |
| 21 | Boys , as well , are quite popular and if you like one especially , you might give him your painting ! |
| 22 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 23 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |
| 24 | So if you 've got children looking at mortgages , just tell them to be careful and that I think really my advice would be to , for anyone starting off a new mortgage now , to definitely go for repayment , until they 've sorted out what they 're doing , because if you cash an endowment within two years , if you ca n't keep up the payments , if you lose your job , then y you get nothing back . |
| 25 | You can do too much of this if you are not careful and as I tend to paint with sharp stabby strokes it can be a fault with me to look rather bitty . |
| 26 | However , in the event you are not likely to want to do that , the embroidery usually looks delightfully spontaneous and if it does n't balance you can generally add an extra petal to help it out . |
| 27 | Use a green pencil to underline all the foods or meals you normally eat that you think are nutritionally sound and that you do not want to change . |
| 28 | I think almost daily there were discussions between our two shop stewards and the quarry owners about you know , levels of production , expected targets , increase in production and all this , and er I think you know through those daily discussions we made our side of the argument known and we we told him that we 'd work to rule if things were n't proper and if we did n't like it . |
| 29 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 30 | But what really brought it to light was your letter telling me I was contemptible and that you washed your hands of me ! |