Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It is verbal irony when some character comes out with a statement or a choice of words which have a meaning to those in the know , either within the text or outside it , that is significantly different or even contradictory to that which the character may be supposed to have in mind .
2 Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah .
3 With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption .
4 You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water .
5 now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems .
6 For the next hour or thereabouts I shall be at the Burgers ’ house in Wood Lane . ’
7 After an hour or so we reached a Slovak village with houses in the traditional wood construction with wooden roofs .
8 After an hour or so we were offered a free drink from the buffet , a new and well intentioned gesture that soon will be seen as an albatross like being asked your height by an undertaker .
9 After half an hour or so he was happy that the fault had been corrected — for the time being .
10 During the next half hour or so he asked his sailing master if he was happy with the speed of the ship .
11 He seemed to be awake for a long time , I think , you know like you wake up and you do n't know what to do with yourself , I think it was like that , so every quarter of an hour or so he kept me , shouting for a drink he did n't know quite what to do with himself
12 The sun was getting low over the sea and in an hour or so it would dip below the horizon , where there were horizontal bars of dark colour .
13 For the next half an hour or so I felt very panicky and unready to have this baby .
14 Well I was n't that nervous , but er I had a go and after an hour or so I got quite confident on me own then .
15 Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion .
16 When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move .
17 For half an hour or so she had Barbara Paulus , ranked 21st to Durie 's 102nd , chasing shadows as she won the first set 6-2 .
18 The only certainty , she reflected ruefully , soaking in fragrant warm water up to her chin , was that in half an hour or so she 'd have to find the courage to face Roman again , possibly over the breakfast-table .
19 During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide .
20 It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority .
21 Sometimes , when in funds , as he thought of it , he would spruce himself up and visit the West End where occasionally he would come across a wartime crony in a small , ex-officers ' club in South Kensington .
22 So please will you consider for three months out of our funds which has to be the to pay her that amount of money or else we can not cope .
23 Give me money or else I 'll flash ! ’
24 For NOx reductions of 80 per cent or more , the USA , Japan and West Germany have opted for SCR ( selective catalytic reduction ) , in which ammonia is injected into the superheated region of a boiler or outside it , in a catalyst bed at around half the cost of FGD .
25 After 10 minutes or so we both got the most appalling horrors .
26 Over the next 40 minutes or so I hope to take you on a review of the practical application of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in the field of aircraft maintenance within the RAF .
27 He 's you see , bu but after about twenty minutes or so he loses touch with what 's what you 're actually doing and if , if you catch him just right he goes berserk !
28 After ten minutes or so it seemed to end satisfactorily .
29 In the twenty minutes or so it took them to reach the outskirts of Mariánské Láznë , Fabia basked in the warmth of her happy memories of her splendid morning .
30 For the next ten minutes or so she sat listening to these mature men chipping him , and he , her quiet Charlie , giving them back as much as they sent .
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