Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So once you got him into your fleshy arms — ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My father 's made it clear enough that he wants us to — to — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 4 | You are a young gentleman and I am sorry to say , not better than I wish you to be . |
| 5 | ‘ You alone must decide what to do , ’ he replied , ‘ and now I must leave you , so that nobody suspects me of warning you . ’ |
| 6 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
| 7 | This ‘ newness ’ , which is not really new but more an expansion of the rigid barriers of the individual self so that we see something as if we were not ourselves , is , I believe , one of the attributes of authentic , pleasurable art . |
| 8 | All this was done by the morning of the I twelfth day ; and all that day the people of the Cid were busied in making ready their arms , and in loading beasts with all that they had , so that they left nothing of any price in the whole city of Valencia , save only the empty houses . |
| 9 | Moreover , their physical knowledge contributes to their perception , so that they see something as an object , or as moving . |
| 10 | You build a bond up with them , so that they see you as a friend with whom they have this special relationship . |
| 11 | Slightly larger objects , however different and unrelated , should be grouped so that they have something in common like colour or national origin . |
| 12 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
| 13 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 14 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 15 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 16 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 17 | In Division One he was subjected to a lot of dubious physical challenge and then , as Palace managers came and went , Vince 's role was constantly changing , so that he became something of an enigma to Palace fans who would one week marvel at his sinuous skills and near-perfect control but then despair at his virtual anonymity the next . |
| 18 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 19 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 20 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 21 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 22 | It should actually have a clip so that you stick it in your inside pocket |
| 23 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 24 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 25 | If in the peg and socket arrangement the true priorities were the alignment and the contact then we might redesigns the whole thing so that it looked something like the drawing shown here . |
| 26 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 27 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 28 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 29 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |