Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tie the beef and lamb into compact rolls or squares so that they retain their shape during cooking and will be easy to cut . |
| 2 | She was n't even aware of having spoken the words aloud until she saw his face tauten with some undefinable emotion as he held her from him . |
| 3 | UNTAMED HEART ( 15 ) CHRISTIAN Slater has specialised in off-beat roles ever since he lost his screen virginity at 20 , playing a novice monk in The |
| 4 | The other thing that was said about him , particularly towards the end , after the U-turn on economic policy , was that he 'd been captured by his officials , and that he also , in the end , rather relished the company of the permanent secretaries more than he did his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 5 | CARRY ON KISSING : Admirer Hubert , smothering smiling Di 's hand with smackers yesterday after she accepted his offer |
| 6 | He was still in hospital five months later when I finished my tour . |
| 7 | and unfortunately it was only about eight months before that she lost her mother , only her mother was the dominant feature of the family you see she kept them all together |
| 8 | Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months . |
| 9 | Thomas last played in the full England side 13 months ago when he won his first cap in Saudi Arabia and did little of consequence . |
| 10 | Survivors quietly described how families were destroyed , women abused , men castrated ; how the Gestapo made them play their gypsy violins even while they performed their atrocities . |
| 11 | New pastures indeed and I regret my lack of education in historical bibliography . |
| 12 | He took us to the pictures sometimes and we shared his intimate refuge from Mum . |
| 13 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 14 | The ice occasionally shears away as I put my weight on it . |
| 15 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 16 | But why should someone murder him decades later because he betrayed his country and worked for the Soviet Union ? |
| 17 | We would be purists indeed if we called their hospital work ‘ amateur ’ . |
| 18 | ( ii ) They should have continuing opportunities to write for formal or public purposes so that they increase their command of the structures of written Standard English . |
| 19 | The ship seemed a million light years away as she tilted her head back , letting the liquid slide coolly down her throat . |
| 20 | A woman , intensely reading a magazine in the corner , gave him a quick thumbs up as she caught his gaze . |
| 21 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 22 | It was not until a few years later that I think his talent really started to manifest itself because you could n't quite think where it was going . |
| 23 | The total cost of the expedition had come to roughly £2,00 — half of which Gould was to recoup less than seven years later when he sold his collection of Australian birds for £1,000 . |
| 24 | That was the last , as I thought , of my Criterion obituary ; but because of some slightly disparaging remarks I made in it of Montgomery Belgion , a Criterion contributor , I incurred the bitter enmity of that enigmatic figure , which exploded years later when he reviewed my book on Simone Weil . |
| 25 | Anyway , I 've been sober for a couple of days now and it changes your perspective a bit . |
| 26 | It is nearly two years now since we published our report on unemployment in West Belfast . |
| 27 | Is that , I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you were n't too well and erm , car picked him up and took him up there , then you get |
| 28 | Edwards has emphasised , ever since the annual meeting two weeks ago when he used his majority shareholding to secure Knighton a place on the United board that he would make his decision at the end of this season . |
| 29 | Edwards has emphasised , ever since the annual meeting two weeks ago when he used his majority shareholding to secure Knighton a place on the board , that he would make his decision at the end of this season . |
| 30 | It was only three years ago that we split our business from Healthcare and we really are a stand-alone Division now , particularly with the advent of M.S.I.L. [ Medical Services Incineration Limited ] . |