Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that some journalists are greedy and ask for rather more samples than they require , but this is not the norm and these people are soon sniffed out . |
| 2 | We stayed at John Bannon 's Hotel in Manali Orchards for rather more time than we had intended . |
| 3 | They 'd talked , in a lazy , desultory fashion , about so many things that she 'd lost track . |
| 4 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 5 | The romance lasted for only two months but it had amusing , melodramatic aspects . |
| 6 | Children should also work for only one hour before they start school . |
| 7 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 8 | She 's been at my side for so many years that it 's more than just a business relationship . |
| 9 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 10 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 11 | I for one am going to go after much younger women because they 're tractable , cute , and society tacitly approves of that sort of thing . |
| 12 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 13 | Well , I think , once he gets established , and once he starts getting work in , I think meself , that work will start , wo n't say rolling in , but I think the work 'll start coming in after about three months and I can get established . |
| 14 | I 've known teachers go on to other posts in the private sector without any trouble after far worse things than you will ever be accused of . |
| 15 | Part-time cleaner Betty Woods , 60 , paid full contributions for just four years before she wed Ron , 62 . |
| 16 | The young striker was on the pitch for just five minutes before he made his mark . |
| 17 | You know , they , they , they can be a bit hard , they can be a bit bitter , they can drink a bit too much , they can be a bit promiscuous , they can be all sorts of rather iffy things but I do n't think Lyndsey will . |
| 18 | Erm straight into the city centres of most major cities so you er if you travel by train you 're there in the centre if that 's where you want to be . |
| 19 | On close inspection , several of the demonstrations of a dissociation between latent inhibition and habituation turn out to be of less theoretical significance than they first seemed . |
| 20 | It 's use for tasks such as stylistic analysis was recognised but considered to be of only minor interest since it did not consider the ‘ important ’ questions , such as how humans are able to process language . |
| 21 | ‘ Plenty of much bigger bastards than you have been made captain , ’ Kimberly said . |
| 22 | He wanted her to sever herself from " all that lot there ; you are made of much better stuff than they are " ; and to embark on a career of respectability . |
| 23 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 24 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 25 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 26 | Nevertheless it is possible to distinguish a number of broadly different approaches and we shall consider four . |
| 27 | Hard coral colonies of species such as Goniopora and Favites are made up of individually small polyps and it would be possible to divide a colony into several separate pieces . |
| 28 | Life may be construed as a series of ever growing accomplishments as we move towards a multitude of personal goals . |
| 29 | Defending champion Huggett , the former Ryder Cup skipper , missed six putts of under five feet as he slipped to a 73 for a two round aggregate of 145 — three over par . |
| 30 | There are other problems , apart from the fact that Harrison 's evidence dates from 1790 and if there was a regular working pattern in Bristol it may have been of more recent origin than he suggests . |