Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The crisis can not be interpreted in terms of independent action by the commons ; the magnates too petitioned for reforms , and a group of them vigorously supported Archbishop Stratford in 1341 . |
| 62 | However , the contract will doubtless contain other terms , some of them expressly agreed between the parties ( e.g. the date of delivery ) and some of them implied ( often by other sections of the Sale of Goods Act — e.g. as to the place of delivery , section 29(2) ) . |
| 63 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 64 | Although most of them rarely attend , hereditary peers could still , if they so wished , dominate the proceedings of the House of Lords , and it occasionally happens , when a matter of vital and controversial national concern , such as the abolition of hanging , galvanises them , that many more than usual attend . |
| 65 | Both of them rarely talked . |
| 66 | Arboreal rodents , primates , and many other mammals take to the trees as an escape route and the majority of them rarely risk a descent to the ground unless it is vitally necessary . |
| 67 | He was Arthur Wharton , a Jamaican about whom little recorded evidence exists apart from his sprinting achievements . |
| 68 | ‘ That seems to me rather to reinforce suspicion that Amy killed Hereward , ’ Laura said . |
| 69 | The response of the Treasury official upon receiving the nomination , according to the duke , was to ‘ put the presentation in his pocket , desiring me rather to name somebody that might be useful for my interest , for nobody knows this Achterlonie ’ . |
| 70 | ‘ It actually , ’ said Emma , raising a hand to her face and brushing it across her eyes , ‘ made me rather weep , listening to her . |
| 71 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 72 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 73 | Often we can secure the release of refugees from detention if we can find them somewhere to live . |
| 74 | ‘ Small spaces help residents to communicate with each other — and also give them somewhere to escape to . |
| 75 | Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night . |
| 76 | I had nice Tory ladies saying that to me in 1983 , and me vigorously nodding my agreement . |
| 77 | And through them all does there not run a consistency of effort to strengthen the ties of monastic life , to bring back those in error , to wait patiently for better times , while occupying his time with theological work , with preaching and counselling the erring , for whom he displays an affectionate concern — even for the king . |
| 78 | What they do , I mean just play a game , it 's just a ga it 's a it 's a game , like sort of Simon says , try and catch them out in things , you 'll say right , now you 've got to point at a window , say , and then you have to point at , and you can get them all doing it , you |
| 79 | I do n't know mate , o I only know that that 's take us Ann and Paul and Ann and John and all them all doing all the others so |
| 80 | I did so erm partly because this seems the most useful approach for an audience , not all of whom perhaps have read in detail the fifteen volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu , erm and partly because he in fact offers a very interesting challenge , I think , at this precise level . |
| 81 | Not the least fascinating aspect of the story , which broke the day after France 's quarter final defeat by Switzerland — and barely three months after the memorable celebrations which had accompanied their winning of the trophy for the first time in 59 years — was that although Noah 's decision was said to have been known to his players and coaches several weeks earlier , no-one apparently bothered to tell French Tennis president , Philippe Chatrier . |
| 82 | It made me suddenly realise how much they had changed . |
| 83 | One such example is : ( 189 ) … the cry which made me suddenly to re-enter the dimension of distinctness . |
| 84 | What happened was that the rope they 'd put on me suddenly pulled tight . |
| 85 | However when cheek meets apathy , nothing apparently happens . |
| 86 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 87 | Even in those large congregations all the bidding prayers are spontaneous , beautifully prayed and with everyone obviously listening to what was being said . |
| 88 | Then Stirling called everyone together to explain his plans . |
| 89 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |
| 90 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |