Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 2 | The outside stitches can now be removed , or I sometimes leave them as a trimming , worked in a contrasting colour . |
| 3 | Tell yourself ‘ Writing this letter will be easy and fun ’ ( not that it ‘ wo n't be difficult ’ , or you still associate it with the word ‘ difficult ’ ) . |
| 4 | That section is in the following terms : ( 1 ) Every one who by words spoken or written or by conduct represents himself , or who knowingly suffers himself to be represented , as a partner in a particular firm , is liable as a partner to any one who has on the faith of any such representation given credit to the firm , whether the representation has or has not been made or communicated to the person so giving credit by or with the knowledge of the apparent partner making the representation or suffering it to be made . |
| 5 | Anyone else using the mark or one nearly resembling it in relation to the same class or classes infringes the mark . |
| 6 | The court has to consider the child 's welfare as the court 's paramount consideration , and also has to consider the various aspects referred to under section 1(3) , that is they have to consider the wishes of the children , their needs , the likely effects on the children of change , the characteristics of the children , the nature of the harm they have suffered and the capability of the parents or anybody else offering themselves as carers , which would include of course the grandparents in this case . |
| 7 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 8 | She clung to him as he charged up the stairs and into her bedroom where he unceremoniously dumped her on the bed . |
| 9 | Well perhaps it need n't where he just had plenty of porridge |
| 10 | Where he actually shot somebody with a sawn off shotgun . |
| 11 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 12 | For the second lot , he may have another code which I do n't have or he just knows them by heart . |
| 13 | Magnus was either dragged out of sanctuary from a church on Egilsay or he voluntarily surrendered himself to his enemies . |
| 14 | I felt once again like a child , like a child who walks into a room and is aware that everyone there knows something about him that he does not . |
| 15 | I am glad you like Mr. Gould : — he has been always very obliging to me — although I never knew him till lately : Mrs. G. appears an exceedingly pleasant & amiable woman . |
| 16 | although I never see her on Wednesday night . |
| 17 | Having read that I immediately repent me in dust and ashes for having committed a dreadful grammatical error . |
| 18 | So tail-waggingly , bone-snafflingly puppyish that I nearly tickled him under the ears . |
| 19 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
| 20 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 21 | I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’ |
| 22 | I am sorry to say that I never heard her at her best because of circumstances . |
| 23 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 24 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 25 | I 've got to be made to realize that I only love him for what I can get out of it . |
| 26 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
| 27 | So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts . |
| 28 | This much was true , that I often found myself in my mother 's kitchen staring at the array of condiments , spices , herbs and tinned foods , wondering why she should have bought this particular kind of split peas , rather than another . |
| 29 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 30 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |