Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not see the female but , as I was raised to their shoulders , I caught a glimpse of my happy home , that cave where Elsbeth and I had been so content . |
| 2 | On the way to the camp we passed a boulder where Tony and I competed for rock climbing idiot of the evening . |
| 3 | You can expect much more than £1,000 if you make such a beachcombing discovery . |
| 4 | Her girlfriend , Josephine , does not take to the water , so Kelly and I go in alone with Simone , treading in unison till the chill is mellowed , and swim to the deep end where we cling to the buoy and discuss other people . |
| 5 | So if you 're travelling at more than 6.2mph and you turn the wheels more than 5deg , then the diff-locks will cut out . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ No-one works harder than Faldo and I admire him because it must be very difficult for him to do that . |
| 7 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 8 | How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit ! |
| 9 | He 's taking a few days ’ vacation out there , right now , so Pat and I thought it would be a good idea to let Fred Klepner stand in . |
| 10 | Yes , we all know that he prefers consensus rather than confrontation and I suppose maybe because he has that kind of style he might be just what the doctor ordered for the nineties . |
| 11 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 12 | There were inter-party rivalries within the UUUC and inter-factional rivalries within the parties and , although Paisley and I belonged to different parties , the fact that we were both identified with the Black case was not necessarily always helpful . |
| 13 | Customers have been far sharper than IBM when it comes to game theory or its real world equivalent , common sense . |
| 14 | This was no more than bravado since I charged blindly on . |
| 15 | Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels . |
| 16 | Sean McMullan , IPE 's Systems Development Manager , said ‘ they are considerably cheaper than X-terminals and we do not need full graphical capabilities . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It has more dignity than charm but it has shops and is closer than Córdoba . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He 'll do more than weep before we see this out , ’ Nora promised . |
| 19 | Wright has such talent that he can become a much more exciting player than Lineker because he has the added bonus of being able to play with the ball as well as without it . |
| 20 | Each Renault engine costs more than £100,000 and they rocket the 800 brake horse-power car to a top speed of more than 200mph . |
| 21 | And yet that is one of the youngster 's attractions , that as well as being a very good tennis prospect , she is also a girl who enjoys life and the things other than tennis that it has to offer . |
| 22 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 23 | He would have had to herd with less congenial characters than gamblers if he had been sent to The Fleet or the Marshalsea . |
| 24 | Sanyi considers the populace politically immature , ignorant and apathetic : ‘ The people wo n't vote in someone better than Iliescu but we need a clean break with the past . |
| 25 | Well , we feel that there 's it 's obviously quite a lot of points that are , are very good in the report , but we really feel that it 's concentrated very much on the administration of pension schemes , rather than security and I think that whilst if everything that , everyone of his recommendations had been law , I think it would have made it more difficult for Maxwell , but I do n't think it would have made in impossible for Maxwell and I think that what th what we see the problem is , is that in many ways the , the Maxwell problem was brought about by two major , major factors I think . |
| 26 | You 've got rather more experience than Pam and you have taught at — it was Queen Elizabeth College you taught at ? |
| 27 | The sudden flood was more like a wave than rain and it blinded the window as surely as darkness . |
| 28 | Snow looks less innocuous but is even worse than rain because it blots out visibility more . |
| 29 | Further significant costs resulted from lost productivity with 37.3m lost hours ( translatable into more than $400m if you take the average hourly wage as $10.53 ) ; 60% of companies included overtime costs , and 7.6% added fines to their expenses . |
| 30 | For the walk-in horses are better pack animals than llamas as they carry much more and cost about the same , but horses can not reach all the base camps . |