Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 2 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 3 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I hope I shall always be Kingy to you , Miss Sally-Anne , ’ making it clear that he included her in the charmed circle of his friends . |
| 5 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 6 | How people use this and they put it in the dictionary . |
| 7 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 8 | We use them as rubber and you hold them in your arms , alright ? |
| 9 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 10 | Yeah , I go to Mrs , erm can we fish , sharing lists I ga , you know , I think it 'll be easier if we did it in twos , and Becky goes why ? |
| 11 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 12 | Not now you 'ave n't … even if you 'ad some before they dumped you in the Mersey , which I suppose you did 'ave … at some time or other like … . ’ |
| 13 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 14 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 15 | The flat seemed cold and empty when she let herself in several hours later , and discovering a message from Kelly on the answering-machine brought no respite from the depression which had settled over her like a heavy black cloud . |
| 16 | The memory was so strong that he lost himself in it . |
| 17 | The careful and precise manner in which these financial arrangements were laid down suggests that many who served saw the war as essentially a business enterprise holding out the promise of substantial rewards for those who were fortunate or who distinguished themselves in the field . |
| 18 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 19 | So how would we find an outside correspondence for jealousy , a way of writing about it that would make it real for the reader , so real that it puts him/her in touch with his/her own jealousy ? |
| 20 | We 'd always get so much and we used it in rotation . |
| 21 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 22 | ‘ People should remember alcohol is dangerous whether you drink it in the pub or at the Christmas carol concert . ’ |
| 23 | The town was much as I remembered it in 1919 . |
| 24 | He has worked hard on it , and perhaps he is at his most content when he has something in his game on which to work . |
| 25 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 26 | By the way , I 'm sorry if I dropped you in the soup just now . ’ |
| 27 | We did that and we counted it in bunches of five dozens , tied them up with two other stock socks tied together , and when we 'd done , I 'll know this figure 's right two thousand four hundred socks we got six pence . |
| 28 | Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh . |
| 29 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 30 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |