Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | And because I took the trouble to save this life of yours I insist on seeing you recover properly and make full use of it . |
| 3 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 4 | Policies I five and I twelve provide for land for employment in the period up to two thousand and six , while in the T policies , the opportunity is taken to update road schemes in the county . |
| 5 | During my first stay in China in 1984 , it was very rare indeed to see young people holding hands in public and I clearly remember the expressions of shock when a student dared to ask , in a packed lecture hall , if students in Britain were allowed to ‘ talk love ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's my first win in the race , ’ Paul said afterwards ‘ and I must say La Greine gave me a great run . ’ |
| 7 | True Confessions in 1981 was an attempt at getting my stage nerve back after a disastrous premature version of Blood and Ice , my first try at a real play , went on in the studio of the Belgrade Theatre , Coventry ( ‘ I 'd rather be at the dentist — Birmingham Evening News ’ ) . |
| 8 | When I lost my first serve in the first set , it threw me off a bit . |
| 9 | ‘ When I first come to Paris in 1979 I am desperately lonely . |
| 10 | My hair jumps as I first go into the deep end |
| 11 | I do n't do it when I first go to a place . |
| 12 | I first go through the odd numbers in a seemingly random fashion 1 , 5,3,7 , 11 , 9 and then downwards with the even numbers 12 , 8 , 10 , 6,2,4 . |
| 13 | I want to know what has happened and then we can criticise it , but I first want to be clear |
| 14 | Right my two get in you have n't got coats on Charlotte in now and shut the door |
| 15 | A point of interest to myself is that our driver , Howard Bounds , shared the next bed to me during my last stay in hospital . |
| 16 | But this does not disguise its dated feel in a world of more advanced and dynamic designs . |
| 17 | What 's more , Pinnacle says it will deliver its S-10 clone at around 65% of Sun 's list price , which would peg an entry-level machine with a 36MHz CPU doing 86 MIPS , 44 SPECint92 and 53 SPECfp92 at around $12,000 — £9,600 . |
| 18 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 19 | For it enables people to unite in support of some ‘ low or medium level ’ generalizations despite profound disagreements concerning their ultimate foundations , which some seek in religion , others in Marxism or in Liberalism , etc . |
| 20 | The latter is the fibre bundle connecting the auditory area with Broca 's area , which some believe to be crucially involved in the imitation of sounds . |
| 21 | The peer review methods adopted by the Research Councils in the evaluation of research proposals were designed to provide for a fair distribution of national R & D funding , ( which some consider to be inadequate at present ) . |
| 22 | ISDN is currently priced in fixed 64Kb/second chunks , which some see as a limitation : with the latest compression techniques in place , 64Kb is a bit excessive for phone calls , but it is insufficient for some other purposes . |
| 23 | Llanelli scrum-half Rupert Moon sets the Scarlets in motion as they savage Pooler 27–3 at Pontypool Park to claim a place in the Schweppes Cup semi-finals and record their second win over Pontypool within a week . |
| 24 | Until then , Cambridge had looked set to record only their second win in 17 years and to take the trophy for the first time since its introduction by the present sponsors in 1987 . |
| 25 | CASTLEFORD moved to third place , beating BRADFORD 30–20 — their second win in 14 days over their championship rivals . |
| 26 | Willington picked up their second win in three games with a 3–2 win over local rivals Crook Town . |
| 27 | Maldon scored their second try through Jack Redfern and Battye converted . |
| 28 | Twenty years ago there were sixteen Catholic Colleges of Education , of which six survive as colleges of Higher Education . |
| 29 | Ireland nearly equalised in the second , but were held back and Sandra Colamartino scored her second try for Scotland in the final minutes . |
| 30 | And Mary Jane has continued its Mediterranean feel with terracotta flooring in the garden room at the back of the house . |