Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 2 | UP leaders immediately demanded the resignation of the Interior Minister Carlos Lemos Simmons , accusing him of ultimate responsibility for the crime and claiming that he had encouraged right-wing death squads to murder UP leaders . |
| 3 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 4 | It circled the small clearing warily , catching the light and jerking as it did so , moving quickly into shadow . |
| 5 | If your ability to speak and understand English is limited , there is also the challenge of adjusting to new ways of living and thinking when you feel you are too old for major changes . |
| 6 | John Bowes could have spent the whole of his fortune on good living and racing but he chose to apply a large proportion to this fabulous collection and its breathtaking setting , which now forms part of our local heritage . |
| 7 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 8 | In fact , I would argue that not only does it do this , but that it goes much further , indicting all men in complicity for rape and insisting that they share the guilt . |
| 9 | As we walked to the restaurant I felt miserable , foreseeing argument and dissent and wishing that I possessed the charm and the experienced polish to ease the tension between these people . |
| 10 | a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age . |
| 11 | So I took my time over the bread and dripping and I spilt my cocoa on the floor in an effort to play for time . |
| 12 | Just to set the scene and seeing as I have n't been in the plot too much lately . |
| 13 | It was a disagreeable story and coming as it did after the impact of the portrait it provoked in Dalgliesh a mixture of depression and foreboding which he tried to shake off as irrational . |
| 14 | Thus , in one , glorious fell swoop , we had not only first-hand , first-class information about island fishing locations , but also assured board and lodging when we arrived . |
| 15 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 16 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 17 | Further , according to this more sophisticated inductivism , creative acts , the most novel and significant of which require genius and involving as they do the psychology of individual scientists , defy logical analysis . |
| 18 | Now that I had this label — ‘ partially sighted ’ — and it was clear that my disability would become more acute , the teachers and girls at school found some semblance of the tolerance and understanding that they had previously lacked , and I slowly began to edge my way up the academic ladder . |
| 19 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 20 | For a moment he wondered about her , what she thought of all the ribbing and chipping that she received almost every day in this place . |
| 21 | He had taken all Anna 's coloured chalks , so that she was reduced to standing and watching while he drew the pictures . |
| 22 | Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it . |
| 23 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 24 | She remained serious about reading all her life , taking pains with her five children 's education and recommending that they read good books , " not some of the trash she had seen at Morrison & Gibb " . |
| 25 | A landlord is bound to include a covenant against assignment and subletting if he wishes to maintain control over the business tenancy . |
| 26 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 27 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 28 | When you see de rainbow you know God know wha he doing one big smile across the sky I tell you God got style the man got style When you see raincloud pass and de rainbow make a show I tell you is God doing limbo the man doing limbo But sometimes you know when I see de rainbow so full of glow and curving like she bearing a child I does want know if God ai n't a woman If that is so the woman got style man she got style |
| 29 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 30 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |