Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I just have to go to or I just have to sort of explain that when you pack a van , you do n't pack it like the advert for KitKat . |
| 2 | Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip . |
| 3 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 4 | Managerialist attitudes have also had an impact , with a few authorities ( particularly on the radical right ) preferring a managing director model , which downgrades corporate management and has sometimes undermined Bains-type arrangements even where they formally continue in existence . |
| 5 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 6 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 7 | She was , however , able to describe and explain the scenario that would be repeated in most of Nicholson 's most spectacular films — where he personally falls in love with his co-star . |
| 8 | The archer fish lives in mangrove swamps in South-east Asia , where it frequently searches for food near the surface of the water . |
| 9 | But there is some duplication in the figures of government revenues , because in the years covered by the table about half of the gross revenues of the republics and provinces was transferred to the federation ( where it again appears as revenue ) . |
| 10 | I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so |
| 11 | This is my do it yourself manual , that I just learned by trial and error . |
| 12 | Nor that I thereby hope for immortality : |
| 13 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 14 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 15 | Yes , I 've got a guy in , well I 've got a couple of people on the shift , and er , the more you give them to do , they just love it , but the thing about it is , I think the mistake that I certainly make from time to time , is the more you give them to do , you 've sort of erm , taken something from somebody else , and then it , it 's trying to keep that erm , trying to keep that more level , and fairness to everybody . |
| 16 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 17 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 18 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 19 | Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown . |
| 20 | In December nineteen eighty seven she was transferred from intensive care to a main ward , but it was not until February nineteen eighty eight that she fully emerged from coma . |
| 21 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 22 | What is clear is that she rapidly took in hand the Communist Party cells in the various academic bodies to which she was attached . |
| 23 | Erm , we were consulted by the A C C as it were , between committees and had to respond on proposals for giving individual local authorities wider discretions in paying compensation to their employees , erm , the issue here actually summarised quite well in the digest that you already looked at Paper C. The relevant which , at one of which was that the A C C sought powers for local authorities to have a discretione a discretion to award up to an extra , up to fifty two weeks pay in addition to existing statutory requirements . |
| 24 | Well the actual State er the statutory sick pay is fifty six pounds ten pence per week erm it is no more than that but I would be interested to see the , the leaflet that you actually got from work . |
| 25 | And the worst thing is she was trying to tell a coloured person that there was n't any prejudice , and that you only come to school to learn about the European way of life . |
| 26 | Many girls said to me that you never recover from anorexia or bulimia or compulsive eating , but having suffered from all three for over seven years , I can say very strongly that this need not be true . |
| 27 | Long-term goals are those that you realistically achieve with patient , thoughtful and careful training . |
| 28 | gives you a bit more time to decide exactly what you want to talk about cos if if it has go to be in week three or week four , then we really sort of like decide now what you 're going to write about so that n Cos next week is gon na be our last meeting on this topic , so you really want to sort of give a bit of a presentation on what you 're going to say . |
| 29 | Indeed it may well be that a claim for contribution in respect of exemplary damages is not within section 1(1) on the facts of this case , so that one never gets to section 2 in relation to such a claim . |
| 30 | Moreover , in the humanities and much professional and social science literature , titles are by no means the precise description of the subject matter that one usually expects in Nature ; in a notorious example , an article on information retrieval appeared in the Library Association Record entitled " How golden is your retriever ? " — an article which would greatly puzzle dog fanciers who had turned to the computer for search along these simple lines . |