Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special Cabinet committee under the chairmanship of Margaret Thatcher had been set up to review my proposals and effectively to decide whether they would become Government policy . |
| 2 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 3 | One was my fox terrier dog Simon , whom I loved passionately in my loneliness and shamefully deserted and neglected in my adolescence . |
| 4 | In my opinion that simply involves that the payment was voluntary if no improper pressure was brought to bear , and involuntary if it was . |
| 5 | ‘ At no time did any of them mention my pregnancy nor indeed question whether I would be coming back after maternity leave . |
| 6 | She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils . |
| 7 | She had completely changed her views and now declared that she was sure war was imminent . |
| 8 | One specialist in geriatric medicine recommends his students to put some elastic bands round their fingers and then try and do some everyday things . |
| 9 | Er , Mr brought slavery into it , but no one had more slaves than India and the Moguls and what about suttee where widows were burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands and still leap and still the system was des er was stopped by the English Just a moment the door was opened by Mr talking about slavery we do n't shut it on |
| 10 | Only a year ago the pundits were shaking their heads and gloomily prophesying that the Democrats would never again provide a President . |
| 11 | She brushed a woodlouse from her skirt and then realised that George was staring at something behind her . |
| 12 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 13 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 14 | Children after the age of 2 are often so keen to prove their own independence and ability that they feel they know much better than their parents and so argue or ignore parents ' normal requests . |
| 15 | I noticed their appearance and also noticed that , left alone , they disappeared too . |
| 16 | He had identified her body and yet behaved as though she had never really existed . |
| 17 | The strike was continued for another four days , partly to show that it had not been panicked by the killings into throwing up its responsibilities and partly to ensure that persons on unemployment insurance and social benefits received payment for a full week . |
| 18 | They favoured Italian in their evidence and only said that Scott 's scheme complied with the conditions . |
| 19 | The diversity of papers produced for the conference in November 1988 which gave birth to the association , as well as the enthusiastic reception accorded to the novelist and film maker Sembene Ousmane when he addressed the participants , suggest that the teaching of African literature in French has not involved the depoliticisation of its content that often occurs when works of art become the object of academic study . |
| 20 | The Pre-Raphaelites and their circle depicted jewellery in their paintings and also designed or purchased pieces to give to their relatives and friends . |
| 21 | Catriona wiped down the last of her tables and suddenly realised that the conversation around her had stopped . |
| 22 | The job of the buyers is to assess the health needs of people in their area and then see that those needs are met as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 23 | It aims to minimize its impact and subsequently treat and cure it . |
| 24 | Several held public meetings where local MPs were put on their mettle and remorselessly pilloried if they failed to acquiesce . |
| 25 | Wild wolf cubs beg for food from their mothers and also bark but they grow out of such grovelling behaviour . |
| 26 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 27 | When the entire pile had been transferred , she bunched the needles together with her hands and alternately stroked and beat them with her karaso , knitting them into a kind of rudimentary bale . |
| 28 | She helped her mother and always did as she was told . |
| 29 | The derivation of original research proposals is never easy , but to participate in their creation and perhaps to stimulate or catalyse them can be very exciting when there are no artificial restrictions on what can be done . |
| 30 | your lines are either working and making you money or there working and costing you money , and the supervisor 's job is to make sure that whoever 's working these phone 's is getting a result |