Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , if she 's got a young family , I mean , nine times out of ten it 's her that 's got to watch them rather than saying to the husband , oh I 'm off to play football dear ! |
| 2 | It also criticized the Department of Transport ( DTp ) for not applying them vigorously and called on the department to widen the scope of inspections and review methods of enforcement . |
| 3 | Overall , the most fruitful way to examine the interaction of courts , executives and assemblies is to see them all as engaged in a continuous process by which the law and rights are constantly being defined and redefined . |
| 4 | Take some of the favourite things that your child likes , mix them together and serve from a warm pot with a ladle . |
| 5 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 6 | Add them together and divide by the number you 've got . |
| 7 | It might be easier if we all presented a resume of ourselves rather than waited for the questions ! |
| 8 | A year later she met someone else and asked for a divorce . |
| 9 | When problems have arisen such as in the urban riots they have explained them away as resulting from a lack of proper parental and school discipline ( blaming the victim again ) or as the work of political agitators . |
| 10 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 11 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 12 | He loved these allusions to river craft and the water , once describing himself approvingly as looking like a rough bargeman . |
| 13 | Then he started to pull himself together , returned to Hollywood and stayed sober — except for Sundays , when he would lock himself away and drink like a fish . |
| 14 | He pulled himself away and sat on the edge of the bed . |
| 15 | He shrugged himself upright and moved towards the door . |
| 16 | Almost all of this increase was attributable to the growing proportion of lone mother families , which more than doubled over the period . |
| 17 | Moreover , both total exports and exports of manufactured goods increased more than GDP , which more than doubled over the whole period . |
| 18 | This actually was the game against Birmingham and here he comes out fearlessly spreads himself beautifully and robs of a goal there . |
| 19 | As they approached , a big rabbit appeared over the edge of the ditch , looked at them quickly and vanished into the bank . |
| 20 | ‘ You told me once that going to a Workhouse was simply exchanging one prison for another . |
| 21 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |
| 22 | In particular , a firm undertaking FDI needs a firm-specific advantage ( e.g. a brand name of a patent ) , which it prefers to exploit itself rather than license to an existing domestic producer . |
| 23 | She all but tripped over a clothes line embedded in the tussocky grass . |
| 24 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 25 | Dry them thoroughly and massage into the skin a little vegetable oil ( or cream ) containing a few drops of the same essence(s) . |
| 26 | This is cheap enough for a user to want to buy one rather than go on a commercial training course . |
| 27 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 28 | If you leave them behind and take to the lanes you 'll rarely see a car . |
| 29 | They ca n't feel me cos they do n't know I 'm there , and if I want to I can fly over their heads and leave them behind and live in the sky . |
| 30 | Would you care to accompany me now or follow in a couple of minutes when you have finished your conversation ? ’ |