Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 2 | Never mind , it is a reckless , bloodthirsty tale , with Roland ultimately being punished for his hubris in refusing until it was too late to blow his oliphant , or horn , to summon back Charlemagne and the rest of the army to help his vastly outnumbered rear guard . |
| 3 | How often in the past have I not given due credence to relatives ' statements of how bad the client was ? |
| 4 | If this is correct , why was I not given any indication that this was a possibility ? |
| 5 | It would n't have been on the books if I ever seen blatant sectarianism at its worst it 's in that bloody motion . |
| 6 | Have I ever found any fault with Thee ? |
| 7 | Since then I have flown in another black cessna stunt plane and with my dad 3 times and I also done another circuit with Andy . |
| 8 | The cult of classicism and the ancient world is , of course , central to an understanding of Lorenzo , but far from remaining a theoretical and private interest , as was generally thought until recently , prestigious architectural commissions were part of his clearly defined political programme . |
| 9 | First he had to sustain the shock of getting up at eight am , then he had to wash and transform his carefully arranged untidy hair into real tidiness , for on this day , the bucket hat was taboo . |
| 10 | At one stage Dave Sprott the northern dentist had suggested they hire a black charabanc and people in Maple Drive , used now to his carefully preserved northern humour , had managed deliberately weak smiles of the kind they managed when Sprott backed them into a corner at someone 's Christmas party . |
| 11 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 12 | And they almost went in front on eight minutes , Michael Surgeon beating the Comrades ' off-side trap only to see his well struck 20-yard drive brilliantly tipped over by 'keeper George Cathcart . |
| 13 | Henry Hamilton claims , in his well managed English Brass and Copper Industries to 1800 , that " most of the German miners were killed , " but this is certainly not so ; nor is there any premiss conferring authenticity upon his statement that " the works at Keswick … were destroyed . " |
| 14 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 15 | His splendidly preserved antique desk had been placed like a barrier solidly across the room about two thirds of the way up . |
| 16 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 17 | If he can convince the 19m north-easterners that he and his recently formed New Aspiration Party will give them a better deal , and he manages to form an electoral pact with the honest and popular governor of Bangkok , he could be on the way to becoming Thailand 's next prime minister . |
| 18 | In the summer of 1820 , after a visit to Russia the previous year to promote his recently translated New Testament , which eventually saw the light of day in 1847 , Vuk again approached Miloš , this time offering to teach the ruler to read and write . |
| 19 | Not only have I never handled any drug stronger than an aspirin , but discretion and confidentiality are an integral part of my job . |
| 20 | The funny thing is I never heard that noise again . |
| 21 | With the brimming in-tray on his desk and his faintly harassed short-sleeved appearance Tom always gave the impression of having snatched organisation from the brink of chaos . |
| 22 | Have you only got one sort ? |
| 23 | Why have you only got one hand in this glove . |
| 24 | ‘ You soon filled that solitude , ’ she uttered softly . |
| 25 | So the challenge in the eighties was to say how you best split that processing of the application across the network to take advantage of the processing power and the mips of the server machines , the processing power and the strengths of the desktop device as well as minimizing the network traffic between those two types of er hardware . |
| 26 | ‘ Have you not read that restraint of profits is just as important as wage restraint ? |
| 27 | Have you not had much energy recently ? |
| 28 | Have you just left that running ? |
| 29 | Now do n't get rid of the Betnovate have you still got some left ? |
| 30 | When had she ever had any influence over Guido ? |