Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [noun] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain packed half her things and then picked up the telephone . |
| 2 | She shivered , suddenly feeling ridiculously shy and uncertain for a moment as he swiftly unknotted his tie and quickly removed his shirt with tense movements . |
| 3 | You select the facts that are telling ( pun intended ) , the facts that will advance your story or make clear your characters or even make your locations easy to assimilate , and you hope that from them you can produce something that is not too far distant from the unwritable reality . |
| 4 | That would have helped me more than going to prison and mixing with all them people and just getting depressed and fed up and full of hatred . |
| 5 | Just walk down the road here to all them shops and just knock one of them off , bring the stuff back , stash it till the morning and then go and sell it to buy some gear … |
| 6 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 7 | Phil Marsh would like to record thanks to Steve Underhill and the 6024 Society for all their help while not forgetting the vast amount of work done by Keith Lobley and Nick Illesley . |
| 8 | The answer is that by furthering the interests of the banks themselves , the Institute increases support for all its activities and thereby benefits individual members . |
| 9 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 10 | All you kids that just sit in line , |
| 11 | Mr Kingdon , who has lived in Africa all his life when not teaching zoology and art at Oxford , can exemplify any point he makes with an anecdote and a case history : from beetles in Namibia to monkeys in Zaire , chameleons in Cameroon or giant groundsels on Mount Kenya . |
| 12 | It is as though he continued to play with toys all his life and never reached maturity . |
| 13 | Nasser maintained his memories of the peasants all his life and often referred to their plight before even he came to power . |
| 14 | To end my composition I would like to say this : a friend is someone who knows all your faults but still likes you in spite of them . |
| 15 | When you reach the base of the skull , use all your fingers and gently circle the area several times to release any muscle tension ( see Fig. 18 ) . |
| 16 | But with that , I have to stress , do not snap away merrily at all your valuables and then take your film into Boots or Supersnaps or whatever with all your details on it , because you do n't know who works there and who 's going to pick up that and . |
| 17 | We rarely find one who provides answers to all our questions , meets all our expectations and generally measures up to perfection ! |
| 18 | Correcting her instinctive move towards him , she made herself open her eyes and slightly shook her head . |
| 19 | The film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers . |
| 20 | Sophie looked at both her sons and then sank into a chair . |