Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean what about apparently we eat more chocolate than any other country . |
| 2 | My Keith tried a little drop last night and he said I must n't drink this so soon after then he had another sip must n't drink it and he |
| 3 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 4 | It 's self evident Mr Deputy Speaker that this government is utterly unconcerned to carry out an obligation to which is bound by a treaty , freely entered into and the minister must answer the question of how he squares this inactivity with regulation nine three which obliges registration officers to take reasonable steps to obtain information about who should be eligible to appear on the electoral role . |
| 5 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 6 | A metaphysical world view raises the question of why you attracted that event . |
| 7 | The lean times seemed very hard , but the thing you think of when you have some success is how on earth did you survive them ? |
| 8 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 9 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |
| 10 | Within three overs Gooch had his century , his first against Pakistan , 17th in all , ninth in his 27 Tests as England captain , and for once he bore little resemblance to lonely General Gordon , whose last stand is immortalised by George Joy in Leeds Art Gallery . |
| 11 | So for once I have some sympathy with John Major , who is enduring similar torture at Number 10 . |
| 12 | It was like when you had that part in Z-Cars . |
| 13 | You know we had an accident along where we opened that car door and that cyclist |
| 14 | From my position as the chair of a governing body of a primary school , I do n't actually think it 's given us very much more flexibility in how we run that school or how that school is operated , and I do n't really and I find it very difficult to see the benefits of us becoming suddenly having erm the responsibility of the funding dumped on us , and therefore the responsibility of any cuts from from erm Local Authorities . |
| 15 | Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all |
| 16 | Both these versions of the expertise theory assure us that the special expertise of directors at once justifies conferring upon them the discretion to run the business and imposes a restraint on how they exercise that discretion . |
| 17 | I was going to have to manage him , and whether I was able to do that successfully depended very much on how I managed this moment . |
| 18 | Well , again , it depends on how you set this plan up . |
| 19 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |
| 20 | We ask the general assembly to remit to the assembly council to give attention to the placing of health and healing within the overall work of the church and to report to next year 's general assembly on where they think this remit should most effectively be discharged . |
| 21 | This was what a boost to when we won that thing at to the stewards and the members , it really was it was an uplift . |
| 22 | Anyone who is offering a proposal that requires a " yes " effort should be clear as to why he expects that effort to be made . |
| 23 | Okay , can you point to where you get most discomfort ? |
| 24 | Cut out each step more accurately along the line of the sloping path , to where you want each step to fall . |
| 25 | Their flickering light showed her the way down the hall to where she placed another candle in an alcove and then , with matches in hand , she walked towards the living-room . |
| 26 | Depending on when you get this letter , I may already have married you . |
| 27 | ‘ I may have agreed to keep quiet about how we know each other , but I did n't agree to our relationship being viewed as an affair ! ’ she protested . |
| 28 | We were very careful about how we entered this market . |
| 29 | dir : I 'm still puzzled about how you got this idea . |
| 30 | ‘ Right , young lady , there are a few things you need to know about how I run this unit , and the first is that my nurses do n't loll around in the corridors indulging in idle chatter with strange men ! ’ |