Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back . |
| 2 | Of course I never knew whether anybody understood very much of my verses . |
| 3 | He could not control his horse which finally bolted so he and the royal purveyor stayed drinking in Inverkeithing . |
| 4 | Because the single driving force which ultimately determines whether new technological developments flourish is the willingness of people to buy products based on them . |
| 5 | The chief inspector shivered with an indefinable dread , the fear she always experienced when faced by a hatred that could only be satiated through violence . |
| 6 | After teaming up with fellow musicians in the early Seventies , he formed Alaap , performing at Asian shows and weddings , a practice they still do as well as supporting the likes of Peter Gabriel and UB40 at international music festivals . |
| 7 | The session was marked by the frank and abrasive attitude taken by Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk towards the CIS ( whose collapse he apparently regarded as imminent ) and his combative response when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested that the legal basis had been set for joint CIS armed forces . |
| 8 | you thi , you look at it , you stand here in poor light it just looks like the stain 's continued through . |
| 9 | Thus , the curvature singularity which usually occurs when , in this case , is replaced by a coordinate singularity which is normally interpreted as a horizon of the Kerr solution . |
| 10 | This produces that variety of note-successions so typical of the total-chromatic usage of serialism ( Example 140 ) : This exercise has been written in such a way as to reveal the considerable difficulty which inevitably occurs when using several serial forms at the same time . |
| 11 | She was acquitted on 17 counts of murder but admitted manslaughter during the trial which dramatically collapsed when the INLA bomb gang threw in the towel and changed their pleas . |
| 12 | ‘ As the midwife came into the room , I had a strong contraction which really felt as though I was in labour . |
| 13 | A wilderness which gradually widened until not a single shrub of hope was left . |
| 14 | Ireland are still playing a style of rugby you only see when watching an old black and white Pathe News reel . |
| 15 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 16 | Doreen was a girl who always sounded as though her nasal passages were obstructed or her throat sore . |
| 17 | He let out the incredulous , admiring little snort of laughter he usually did when mentioning the stationer 's : " Greeting cards ! |
| 18 | It was the GP who then decided whether to treat the patient , to refer the patient on to another agency , or to do nothing . |
| 19 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 20 | All they could do was plead for commonsense or , in desperation , threaten a stern lecture from Anna Essinger , a device which usually succeeded when all else had failed . |
| 21 | At the end of the alley I paused , waiting , but all I saw was the end of a nose which quietly withdrew as I stood there . |
| 22 | They despised the rest of the school population who passively did as they were told and called these the ‘ ear'oles ’ . |
| 23 | They went into the small drawing-room they always used when they were alone in the house . |
| 24 | Charles and Alex drank a lot , but Charles did n't feel the relaxation he normally experienced when getting quietly pissed with a fellow actor . |
| 25 | Yet beyond this general expectation he did not pressure them too early , at one point he seriously doubted whether Hideki was fitted to benefit from university study . |
| 26 | ‘ During the day I only paint when he 's asleep , and sometimes for the extra hour if he 's happy playing beside me . |
| 27 | It is strictly unnecessary for me to deal with the issue of discretion which only arises if the court has power to rectify . |
| 28 | The early death of a sibling is an event which Dally cites as being common in the histories of anorexics , and a year or so later my baby sister died of bronchial pneumonia . |
| 29 | The statement , entitled ‘ Socialism needs everyone ’ , followed a meeting of the 21 members of the Politburo , who also brought in numerous members of the lower-ranking Central Committee — a rare event which only occurs when urgent and important issues are at stake . |
| 30 | Most of all the fate of Poland illustrated the necessity of strong monarchy and the fatal disunity which usually followed when it was lacking . |