Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it does n't seem right for them to drive about like that , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 2 | ‘ The notion of tragedy did n't enter my head , ’ she protested , ‘ but it did seem odd for her to break off in the middle of a phone call like that . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 4 | Making it as difficult as possible for them to come in by setting up barriers doing things , perhaps a at night , putting like some timer switches in the rooms that you 're likely to be sitting in . |
| 5 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
| 6 | Well I think she could be right about it starting off as that , I do n't know . |
| 7 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 8 | Look , I know you 've said it does n't matter , but I am sorry about what happened up at Handley Farm . ’ |
| 9 | Look , I was sorry about what happened round at the flat . |
| 10 | He turned his back on Hector , and walked deliberately over to Eachuinn Odhar 's side , waiting in vain for him to look up from his fingers , nervously rubbing at his fur coverlet , and meet his son 's eye . |
| 11 | I have left the way clear for anyone to take over as chairman . |
| 12 | Er few problems with the job before we started or during the job er , come back to us for a six so far so we have to What we will do is drop them down and Er another problem with the job is we 're about three week 's behind er arranged for them to come in on Monday . |
| 13 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 14 | The fact that Ian and I arrived first gives us priority , and it was extremely foolish of you to set up in opposition . |
| 15 | In the darkness of the church — there were only a few old women praying , oblivious of what went on around them — one of the girls took the note and quickly hid it in her knickers . |
| 16 | Naturally , with no reserve of our own in the county , we are much interested in what goes on at Rutland Water . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 18 | I go into schools quite a lot because I 'm concerned with the training of graduates as teachers , and I 'm very interested in what goes on in schools . |
| 19 | Meyer had his head buried in files he was comparing , apparently oblivious to everything going on around him . |
| 20 | Logicians , one would have imagined , dwell in mental ivory towers , austerely untroubled by what goes on in laboratories . |
| 21 | Hauling her all the way from the Bishop 's castle at a pace he must have known was impossible for her to keep up with , until she 'd had no breath left with which to explain . |
| 22 | It was clearly impossible for him to stay on in the studio . |
| 23 | It 's impossible for you to catch up on my record . |
| 24 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 26 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 27 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 28 | It is hard for us to communicate back to a horse with body language , but we can simulate some of the horse 's actions . |
| 29 | Can you tell me , do you know if it will be okay for me to come in at quarter past four ? |
| 30 | If , for instance , a lone ant finds a food source too large for it to bring back to the nest by itself , it runs back to the nest leaving a pheromone trail on the way . |