Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took no notice , and I began to hate her , not because I was having to apologize — she looked so old and sad that I was genuinely sorry — but because she would n't listen and it was such a-terrible physical struggle for me to talk ; my mouth seemed to be full of some sickly , sticky stuff , like chewing-gum . |
| 2 | My work had to be spontaneous so I have n't time to work out lighting etc … |
| 3 | My work had to be spontaneous so I have n't time to work out lighting etc … = The Aymarians ( Andes dwellers ) are very shy people and if , and when , they did consent to be photographed , they 'd insist it did n't take long . ’ |
| 4 | My husband tries to be sympathetic , but I can tell his patience is running out . |
| 5 | My father seemed to be happy to conduct his affairs through them for long enough . |
| 6 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 7 | Number five , which coin ceased to be legal tender in August the first , nineteen sixty nine ? |
| 8 | Which coin ceased to be legal tender in August the first , nineteen sixty nine ? |
| 9 | Right , which coin ceased to be legal tender |
| 10 | Her patience appeared to be inexhaustible . |
| 11 | Hall effect semiconductors will measure low flux levels although their response tends to be non-linear and temperature dependent . |
| 12 | Now you 'd expect somebody who 'd had their car stolen to be uptight . |
| 13 | In practice , however , they are contradictory , because the purpose of the rules is to produce a single solution to any accounting problem while economic reality , with which accounting purports to be concerned , is far too complex for unique solutions . |
| 14 | Does Her Majesty wish to be involved in this tawdry merchandising ? |
| 15 | She and her father had visited many places of historical interest , including several castles , but the small castle perched on its rock promised to be special . |
| 16 | With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs . |
| 17 | Everything about her and about her marriage seemed to be perfect , apart from one disquieting fact : she hated going into churches and she absolutely refused to be present at the consecration of the Host . |
| 18 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 19 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 20 | Its confidence appeared to be growing , for in 1864 the tsar enacted three measures that were second in importance only to the emancipation itself . |
| 21 | She said her husband seemed to be unbalanced and capable of doing nasty things to their children . |
| 22 | Such a grammar needs to be appropriate to the audience that is to use it , its content needs to be appropriate to the culture of the people whose language is to be learnt , and it needs to progress smoothly from one topic to another . |
| 23 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
| 24 | He had now been her lover for nearly three years : the physical side of their relationship seemed to be perfect . |
| 25 | Their strategy seems to be widespread but low-level guerrilla warfare to discredit and destabilise the Phnom Penh government . |
| 26 | Additionally the full length product spanning repeats 10–13 was observed only in tumor cell lines , particularly in U251 mRNA although its occurrence appears to be rare in the different cell lines tested . |
| 27 | Two other points are also clear however : first that heads ought also to have featured explicitly in the strategy from the outset , since their role proved to be critical ; second , that there was a serious lack of linkage between the strategy 's various components , particularly where advisory staff , heads , PNP coordinators and class teachers were concerned . |
| 28 | Finally it was suggested that if her father continued to be unkind or unpleasant , the only way she could increase the level of care she provided would be to move away from her family and live with him . |
| 29 | Her Grace wishes to be alone . ’ |
| 30 | Its machinery had to be capable of carrying out the role in relation to those institutions now designated as polytechnics — which , as we have seen , were far from homogeneous — and in relation to a large variety of other institutions with one or another proportion of its work at the level of CNAA degrees . |