Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not what you 'd call the retiring type , and I rarely flinch from a fight when I 'm sure of my own righteousness ; but there is one thing I can not cope with , and that is unprovoked aggression . |
| 2 | She gives a brief , cut-off little cry like a chirp as she comes , and sinks her teeth into my shoulder . |
| 3 | It is no surprise they all have bright red noses , for their two great loves are tobacco and whisky ; they rarely appear without a pipe and are known to raid cellars , particularly favouring homemade ale . |
| 4 | The reason is simply that there are so many XT and 286 machines that are in perfectly good working order and only suffer from the fact that they are not 386s ! |
| 5 | Well we 've been talking about the benefits which the local firms obviously gain from the work that 's going on here , but the question could be asked , what benefit do the academics in the University and also the students gain from the , the programme ? |
| 6 | Generally a good daily rub in the bath or shower is all that is required . |
| 7 | ‘ But I got myself extremely fit during the summer and got the bug again . |
| 8 | She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them . |
| 9 | The important points to remember are that pipe runs from the hot water cylinder should be kept as short and as direct as possible to avoid heat loss — and a long wait at the tap before hot water arrives . |
| 10 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 11 | The other five millions include the labourers and less skilled workers , male and female , whose maximum wages only suffice for the necessities and barest decencies of existence , and for whom therefore any mischance means penury , passing swiftly into pauperism . ’ |
| 12 | ( viii ) Dry the pups with tissues and gently stimulate with a tissue or surgical swab until they are pink and breathing regularly . |
| 13 | It is quite small , perhaps 125–128cm at the withers and weighing 500–700kg on average . |
| 14 | The tales of wrist-breaking fights with leviathan carp are legendary , and the ghostly , mist-shrouded waters that provide a backdrop for these real or imaginary scenes only add to the mystique that anglers love . |
| 15 | I do n't remember the paper I only look at the front and the back on a Friday , well pick it up and have a look |
| 16 | So look to the future and suss out the science of beauty . |
| 17 | They were forced to ponder on whether the Reform Bill would end the old system , or , in aiding the middle classes , merely add to the strength and number of working-class oppressors . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you lived in this area long ? ’ she decided was a safe enough question after a lull when another beer was brought to him . |
| 19 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 20 | They resist change because they feel threatened by it and are the ones who constantly refer to the rules and regulations before they will do anything . |
| 21 | They only get in the way when you 're using a keyboard and anyway they 're easy to get off because the glue 's not up to much . |
| 22 | These all originate on the stipes and include the levator and depressor of the palp , the flexor of the galea and the stipital flexor of the lacinia. to . |
| 23 | There was not enough contact between the service and the world outside Whitehall while , in general , promotion depended too much on seniority and too little on merit . |
| 24 | Is there really much harm in a father or stepfather fondling a girl ? |
| 25 | What we 're really asking voters to do is ask searching questions of their candidates to really find out how they feel and how they personally feel about the environment and how that spin-off would become part of their council thinking . |
| 26 | That , however , is not much use to the retailer if the boy has chosen instead to sue the retailer for breach of contract . |
| 27 | Cecilia thought this would not be much comfort to the relatives and friends of the waitress and the guest . |
| 28 | You only go into the flats if you 're visiting someone or if you live there , so there 's no , there 's none of that hustle and bustle that you get on a , on a regular street . |
| 29 | We only go to the pictures but there 's a scene to face every time when she goes home . |
| 30 | Note that the above exceptions only apply to the extent that a patent relates to that thing as such . |