Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way .
2 What 's the difference between being in and being in all day ?
3 To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind .
4 Let those involved in violence — who plan it , carry it out or are in any way responsible for it — realise the damage that they are doing to people living in the district .
5 Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object .
6 In his judgment , Lord Justice Dillon rejected Mothercare 's claim for passing off because in particular the book taken as a whole , not merely its title , did not begin to suggest that it had been issued by or sponsored by or was in any way associated with Mothercare .
7 There 's a resistor there that was in that tray I do n't know whether it 's fell out the board or
8 They start off after one smoke and when they 're half-way the smoke 's gone from there and is in another place .
9 Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers .
10 Obviously its qualities varied considerably and are in any case difficult to assess .
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