Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was that she and her book would have nothing complete to say to the age until her grandfather 's misspent energy had been redeemed inside herself . |
| 2 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 3 | 2 Immediately upon receipt of the Selling Notice , the Company shall give notice in writing ( a " Compulsory Sale Notice " ) to each of the members ( other than the Seller ) giving the details contained in the Selling Notice , requiring them each to sell to the Proposed Purchaser at Completion [ all of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] / [ such proportion of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] as is equal to the proportion which the Selling Shares bears to the total holding of [ shares in the Ordinary Share Capital/ " A " Ordinary Shares ] held by the Seller ( including the Selling Shares ) ] . |
| 4 | Mid morning he would yell out to the trainees during lulls in activity : " Everyone off the phone " When all had complied , he instructed them each to write on a piece of paper ten numbers out of the 40 that corresponded with the internal telephone lines . |
| 5 | Immediately before the Spanish Conquest in AD 1521 , the Pátzcuaro basin was the focal point of the Postclassic Purépecha ( Tarascan ) Empire , with an estimated population of 60,000–105,000 ( ref. 17 ) , of whom 35,000 lived in Tzintzuntzan on the northeast shore ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 6 | Nothing memorable happened at their only meeting , in a Gloucestershire sanatorium , though Malcolm Muggeridge once remarked that he would have loved to see and hear them together , and it is still open to anyone to write an imaginary conversation of the event . |
| 7 | In one year alone she was overseeing twelve undergraduates , of whom eleven emerged with first-class degrees . |
| 8 | What is it about them that speaks to you , that calls forth such a strong response that at the end you feel satisfied , nourished , as though something new had taken place ? |
| 9 | ‘ I meant what I said , Mickey … get them that done in Antney . ’ |
| 10 | In ‘ What 's In Your Life For Me ? ’ or ‘ And I Do n't Love You ’ or ‘ Into Each Rain Some Life Must Fall ’ or a score of others , Smokey thinks through the problems of modern love and squeezes music out of them that drips like honey from a spoon . |
| 11 | An impressive feature of the early post-war Palace sides was the triumvirate of Alderson in goal , Little and Ernie Rhodes at full-back , and those who watched them play for the Palace will tell you of an understanding between them that bordered on the uncanny . |
| 12 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 13 | So it is the capacity to mobilise both of these resources and switch smoothly between them that seems to be the hallmark of effective creative production . |
| 14 | ‘ A lot of them that works on commission just say there 's nothing they can do and call in the tow-truck . ’ |
| 15 | Gill-net entanglement affects coastal dolphin and porpoise species worldwide , and these animals ' low reproductive rates make them ill-suited to cope with this type of threat . |
| 16 | " So that , in the end , you 've nothing definite to show for it ? " |
| 17 | We can deliver them direct to site in bulk , small quantities , or in house sets . |
| 18 | We actively encourage them to take on tasks out with the role of resident to give them some leaning to their life , to give them some creativeness to actively tap some of the skills they have had as a housewife or when they were out in the community . |
| 19 | One plays upon a pipe or reed like Pan , another drinks from a crystal bowl while behind them another leaps with an arched back and arms outstretched into a cloud or white birds . |
| 20 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 21 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 22 | should give it me this gon na take me three weeks cracking these almonds |
| 23 | They 're quite easy to train and hunt a variety of prey from small birds to pheasants and hares , which makes them interesting to work with . |
| 24 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 25 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 26 | DULLARD COUNTRY Joes from Canada who 've got nothing fresh to add to the runnings — just a stinky , laboured , rock-heavy thing . |
| 27 | Will it not be found that the political activity of societies consists ordinarily , perhaps invariably , in filling sieves and making sand ropes — sieves which those who fill them half know to be sieves , sand which those who weave it into ropes suspect to be sand after all ? |
| 28 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 29 | With no shell and thus no firm base on which to attach a muscle and nothing rigid to serve as a lever , these larvae are indifferent movers . |
| 30 | ‘ It leaves me free to concentrate on the show and anyway , I 'm not there just to play my favourite records . |