Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it does n't seem right for them to drive about like that , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 2 | ‘ The notion of tragedy did n't enter my head , ’ she protested , ‘ but it did seem odd for her to break off in the middle of a phone call like that . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 4 | Making it as difficult as possible for them to come in by setting up barriers doing things , perhaps a at night , putting like some timer switches in the rooms that you 're likely to be sitting in . |
| 5 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
| 6 | Well I think she could be right about it starting off as that , I do n't know . |
| 7 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 8 | Look , I know you 've said it does n't matter , but I am sorry about what happened up at Handley Farm . ’ |
| 9 | Look , I was sorry about what happened round at the flat . |
| 10 | He turned his back on Hector , and walked deliberately over to Eachuinn Odhar 's side , waiting in vain for him to look up from his fingers , nervously rubbing at his fur coverlet , and meet his son 's eye . |
| 11 | You were not there , I was not there Saint Mark or the person who wrote this Gospel was not there Someone has recorded this for us looking back on it . |
| 12 | I have left the way clear for anyone to take over as chairman . |
| 13 | Come , we must choose some for you to take back with you . |
| 14 | Er few problems with the job before we started or during the job er , come back to us for a six so far so we have to What we will do is drop them down and Er another problem with the job is we 're about three week 's behind er arranged for them to come in on Monday . |
| 15 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 16 | The fact that Ian and I arrived first gives us priority , and it was extremely foolish of you to set up in opposition . |
| 17 | Burns had fourteen known children , half of them born out of wedlock . |
| 18 | In the course of ten years , some fifty students were trained , about half of whom went on to ordination and a few of the others were ordained after my time . |
| 19 | In the darkness of the church — there were only a few old women praying , oblivious of what went on around them — one of the girls took the note and quickly hid it in her knickers . |
| 20 | To make sure that these components met the quality standards needed by the main plant , the company despatched , at its own expense , what they described to us with only mild exaggeration as ‘ a regiment of engineers ’ from Detroit , some of whom stayed down in Brazil for months advising the subcontractors on how to meet the company 's standards . |
| 21 | Having seen some of what went on with secondary picketing in the 1970s , I regard it as the unacceptable face of socialism . |
| 22 | Some of them come back from all over Britain . |
| 23 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 24 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 25 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 26 | Some of them straggled back through Taunton , and being in no hurry to get home settled down in the Floral Gardens , playing guitars and tambourines , smoking joints , dropping acid and chanting mantras . |
| 27 | The lectures in 1871 were from E. J. Reed ( chief constructor of the navy ) on 10 February , on the stability of ironclads following the loss of HMS Captain ; then on 3 March Captain Noble , FRS , late of the Royal Artillery , reported on experiments on the power of gunpowder , some of them carried out with William Armstrong , the armaments manufacturer ; and on 12 May Colonel Drummond Jervois of the Royal Engineers spoke on the defence policy of Great Britain . |
| 28 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 29 | A total of 9.4 per cent , equivalent to 33,000 miles , were destroyed during the period 1984-90 , some of them dating back to Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 30 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |