Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took an enormous amount of discussion to persuade me that we had enough intrinsic skills to mount a successful oil operation , but those closer to the competition and the marketplace knew better than I their own relative abilities . |
| 2 | No one knew better than he their stubbornness and volatile fickleness , demonstrated repeatedly after the Exodus from Egypt . |
| 3 | I 've sometimes made some rather awful mistakes when I have thought first about what I would like to give rather than what my friends would like to receive , so do try to find out before you embark on a special garment . |
| 4 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 5 | Not if what his sister says is true . ’ |
| 6 | Under present law , a father who commits buggery on his daughter is guilty of that offence whether she consents or not and whatever her age . |
| 7 | Of course , there are one or two exceptions to the no talking or moving yourself ‘ rule ’ : do speak up if something your partner is doing is hurting , or if you feel cold or uncomfortable in any way . |
| 8 | When we asked all the branches in Environmental Services if they had anything we should know about and put into print for the next Environmental Issues , such as had they done anything exciting or out of the ordinary recently , Branch manager from Pest Control Sheffield , Henri Amiss was quick to point out that everything their branch did set them apart from other branches . |
| 9 | I know , I 'll have my turtles now and you your turtles . |
| 10 | As far as what his political role will be , you know my husband is an ANC man — and he 's not going to deny it . |
| 11 | as well over here that our our guys have to cope with . |
| 12 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 13 | I think well because I my mother buy always the same it 's the flour specially for the cake . |
| 14 | immediately before you your family or domestic employees retire for the night . |
| 15 | immediately before you your family or domestic employees retire for the night . |
| 16 | In such a situation the teacher can not choose when to use the programme , and unless it is a rebroadcast , he will only have a very general idea of what the programme will be about or what its language content will be ( vocabulary , grammar , structures , level of difficulty , appropriateness , etc ) . |
| 17 | In the eighteenth century it was more and more usual for an ambassador accredited to any of the greatest European courts to be given it , irrespective of how long he stayed there or what his duties were . |
| 18 | Er , first of all , I ensure that people are not de-counted unless they have er , wished to go and maybe that their their dwellings are er , in er a state of er , disrepair or there 's something structurally wrong that they feel unsafe er , in them and then er , they are , I do n't like the word de-counted , but then they er , are offered er other accommodation . |
| 19 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 20 | Parents have a tremendous responsibility to know how and what their children are being taught . |
| 21 | They 're all there but their their umbrellas and their walking sticks |
| 22 | Oh I mean I I after we after er we may never see look at each other again so my my job is to is to say right I can forward your name to and say look you know er I will make one or two points this guy er needs to be concentrated on , not as an exception , but you know because we 've taken fliers with people before you 've been very successful . |
| 23 | ‘ We could have done it on Renascia , because we knew where the stars where and what their names were . |