Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand strayed to touch his short thick hair , a small yelp of surprise escaping her as her wrist was grasped by strong fingers and she found herself looking down into alert blue eyes . |
| 2 | But I always knew you were fiercely independent and I knew how you 'd react to my eternal presence if you realised I was there as a self-appointed bodyguard . ’ |
| 3 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
| 4 | Imagine if your local electrical store allowed you to take a TV home for a month to sample its quality before parting with your money , you would be sure you had made the right decision before it cost you the earth . |
| 5 | She felt him pushing her backwards on the overstuffed settee and she let him . |
| 6 | But this only raises another question : how do we know a specific presence when we see one ? |
| 7 | What am I saying as we sit here talking about this rather strange difficulty that we find ourselves in ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless , he had cast the Marshal a grateful look when he saw him standing there as promised , watching with his big , slightly bulging eyes . |
| 9 | Modigliani painted hair when he saw it as part of his design . |
| 10 | ‘ She is also setting an example in these hard economic times and I think we should respect the Princess for this . ’ |
| 11 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 12 | It it 's not his best side er his right foot but you know he can weigh in on that side but er he does have a hunger for goals . |
| 13 | What was funny it made a loud noise but it hurt my ankle as well . |
| 14 | He was the regional winner before he knew anything about it . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 16 | Never one to idly beat around the bush , Hank gets straight to the heart of the matter , addressing the crowd with all the battle-charred frankness of a heard-headed grunt as he informs them , ‘ thanks for coming on down and well , good luck … ’ |
| 17 | Never one to idly beat around the bush , Hank gets straight to the heart of the matter , addressing the crowd with all the battle-charred frankness of a heard-headed grunt as he informs them , ‘ thanks for coming on down and well , good luck … ’ |
| 18 | " Lift that bloody foot like I told you ! " |
| 19 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 20 | But it was hypocritical sarcasm because she knew she would have done the same as him . |
| 21 | G M B is very busy and very influential on your behalf at European level and we appreciate what G M B does for us . |
| 22 | It was a trick , a way of helping his mother , and a cruel experiment because he thought he knew best . |
| 23 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 24 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 25 | Thank you , Lord , that you control the work of public and private industry as it affects us day by day , in our homes , in our neighbourhoods , at work . |
| 26 | Thirty pairs of eyes stared with unwavering concentration as I dipped my hand into the all-too-familiar breakfast of slightly sour rice and salted fish . |
| 27 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 28 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 29 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
| 30 | Our flight was announced over the loud speakers and we made our way through lots of small passages until we were on the plane . |