Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I was full to the gills of roasted cat , which is one of the reasons I ca n't stand the animals now .
2 From these accounts I could n't recognise the Tom Watt I thought I had known .
3 There were a thousand possible combinations … one-four-six , one-four-seven … in twenty minutes I could perhaps try a hundred and fifty numbers .
4 In the sea of pebbles I could n't see the bolts — so much for environmental concerns — but fortunately it was easy climbing .
5 ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’
6 Having identified the most likely candidates I shall then consider the critical experimental evidence ( which again derives from studies of the role of contextual factors ) .
7 His enthusiasm was infectious , and as Merrill looked up at the lively amber glint in his eyes she could n't suppress a smile .
8 Apart from a strong pair of legs you 'll also need a good dictionary to decipher the route names .
9 In other words you ca n't see the power , you can only see the result of the power .
10 ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back .
11 On the subject of Fanatics you should always buy the full allowance .
12 yeah there 's a lot of different designs you ca n't move the back of these
13 By moving the flux points around and changing their strengths we can easily assess the effect of a changing core field on VGP path .
14 While we demand oil in such quantities to fuel our petrol driven lifestyles we can not ignore the consequences , both short term and long term .
15 I mean in other words we 'll now have a proper strategy the Vale of the White Horse , which was always an area of the county where the County Council services to the elderly was poorer than elsewhere .
16 The Immigration people were being very nice about it , but with the stringent new visa regulations for Indians and Tamils they could not let a couple of whites in without ceremony .
17 When those hybrids overran the guards they might simply tear the last survivors apart .
18 However , the principle in Williams v Singer can not be taken too far and Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC made the point that if the trustees were actually to receive the income which they were bound to pay over to the beneficiaries they will not avoid an assessment on themselves .
19 They lead to a formal , didactic , teacher-centred approach , they operate with devastating force upon teachers newly trained in ‘ activity methods ’ , but in the tough , bleak conditions which obtain in some schools they may well represent the only possible alternative for a struggling teacher to adopt .
20 See the first week I went to these schools they could n't speak a word of Punjabi .
21 In showing off to the raw recruits he might even throw the small plane into such daring bankings or dives that it could n't be manoeuvred out of .
22 While the booksellers were looking at his books he would quietly nick a few of theirs to sell to another shop .
23 Even if the racket stays in the cupboard for six months it will still need a restring — the strings will have stretched and gone ‘ dead ’ .
24 ‘ In very strong winds I ca n't prevent the sail from lifting me out of the water . ’
25 Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is .
26 Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday .
27 But Tony Murrell , managing director of financial advisers Fraser Marr said : ‘ In most circumstances we would not recommend the use of educational trusts because these can only be used for school fees — nothing else .
28 In such circumstances we may not describe a band as being due to a single local mode , and the empirical methods we have used so far break down .
29 After most peoples experiences of travelling on camels they would probably find a penny farthing easier , but Robyn Davidson trekked 1,700 miles across the Australian desert with two camels and a dog for company .
30 Although tripodding involves an additional operation ( and unnecessary extra work in good weather ) , in high-rainfall areas it will often reduce the need for extra turning and tedding and the risk of crop loss or damage .
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