Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whatever the problem — bereavement , illness , disability , debt , marital problems , loneliness or anything else causing worry and distress — SSAFA is available locally to help . |
| 32 | Workshops are generally conducted with the participants sitting round in a circle of rocking chairs , which dismiss the idea of ‘ teachers and taught , ’ and stresses instead that everyone there brings knowledge to share . |
| 33 | And they had all this on top of it and everything , so everyone just eat bread . |
| 34 | Colin Stephens did not quite convince that he was the Messiah in waiting at flyhalf although his coolly taken first-half drop goal showed that he can perform under pressure . |
| 35 | Their troubled relationship with Prost notwithstanding , Honda 's successful assault on the bastions of Formula One is admirably chronicled by Christopher Hilton in Conquest of Formula One , although his somewhat hectoring style makes the first few pages something of a battle . |
| 36 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 37 | Not that I ever drank beer . |
| 38 | Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it . |
| 39 | You will notice that I never include rice and pasta in the menus on the last day of the week to avoid causing an artificial weight gain — the last thing we want for tomorrow morning . |
| 40 | I have already stated that I discovered death at the age of six , and also that I never considered suicide as a possible course of action . |
| 41 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 42 | The day flew by so quickly that I hardly noticed evening stealing in on crimson wings . |
| 43 | The football stable must be cleansed and further breakages of the law regarding payments will be dealt with in such a severe manner that I now give warning that clubs and players must not expect the slightest leniency … |
| 44 | Apart from the ( very ) occasional disagreement with the teachers I think that I quite like school as I am here for my own benefit . |
| 45 | Your filter is fairly powerful and should be up to the job , but I must admit that I personally prefer undergravel filtration for almost all purposes . |
| 46 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |
| 47 | We did n't take any action because I take the fact that someone else uses part of your song as a compliment really . |
| 48 | ‘ So I just went a-front there with my milk and vinegar ; rubbed it in my palm and fingers ; and then I rubbed it inside the horses ’ nose and then round their nostrils . |
| 49 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 50 | Marje now admits that her carefully nurtured image has been torn apart by revelations from a new biography . |
| 51 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 52 | She almost ran from the room , as if afraid that her newly found resolve would melt away if she did not immediately put it into practice . |
| 53 | As Haar has nicely put it , the situation is akin to that of a sweepstake : a single ticket fetches much more than its mathematically calculated value , for the simple reason that the grand prize may fall to any one holder . |
| 54 | Early on , someone said to me that nobody really took AIDS seriously until someone they knew died through it and when the first ex-volunteer died , many of us felt the shock waves . |
| 55 | In the long run , Cabernet will probably improve Rioja , if only by persuading traditionalists to make better wines from Tempranillo , just to prove that nobody really needs Cabernet . |
| 56 | He took her virginity with care , giving her so much ecstatic joy in the taking that she scarcely noticed pain . |
| 57 | ACTRESS Siobhan Redmond has revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour . |
| 58 | ACTRESS Siobhan Redmond has revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour . |
| 59 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 60 | She was so absorbed in the task that she hardly noticed time passing . |