Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 2 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 3 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 4 | The city was dominated by material problems like unemployment and housing , which although related to the issue of discrimination , were more obviously tackled by campaigns that focused on the issues themselves . |
| 5 | These rules were subsequently amended by the CMI , which although affiliated with the ILA acted as an independent entity . |
| 6 | If this was the case the caveman 's body would need to be ready to run away very quickly , or enable him to try to defend himself if caught by the tiger . |
| 7 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 8 | In such a case , the State will pay the owner the value he has established himself and presented to the Federal National Heritage Service or Custom Officers . |
| 9 | When they were told that he was still at lunch , Morton thought that Bragg would explode , but he controlled himself and settled for a middle-aged assistant . |
| 10 | Then Gascoigne , hitherto a pale shadow of himself and stifled by the physical attention of man-marker Walter Bonacina , made his heroic contribution and doused those particular flames . |
| 11 | Crawford travelled to New York by himself and booked into the Algonquin Hotel just before Christmas 1966 , tucking into a turkey sandwich and cold tea on the festive day and desperately missing wife Gabrielle and baby Emma , who were staying with Gabrielle 's father on his farm in Kent . |
| 12 | Despite some unnecessary barracking from supporters , Mr Singh certainly enjoyed himself and got behind the team . |
| 13 | These rules include provision for the calculation of a quota of votes which if gained by a candidate will ensure election and this has the effect of producing in each constituency a result in seats which is as nearly proportional as possible to the opinions of the voters . |
| 14 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 15 | He defined trade secrets ( at p425 a-j ) as : ( a ) information used in the trade or business ; ( b ) of which the owner limits the dissemination or at least does not encourage or permit widespread publication ; ( c ) and which if disclosed to a competitor would be liable to cause real or significant harm to the owner of the secret . |
| 16 | It has a large preparation and grilling area with a removable firebowl , which if reversed with the windshield still attached will prevent rainwater collecting . |
| 17 | This provided an example of a well-understood formalism which if interrogated in a particle-like way gave particle behaviour and if interrogated in a wave-like way gave wave behaviour . |
| 18 | First , he saw himself as charged with a mission ( that of maintaining peace and unity ) which he could not simply renounce by an act of free will . |
| 19 | On 10 March 1779 Wasbrough was granted a patent ( no. 1,213 ) for a ‘ machine , which when applied to a steam-engine or any perpendicular motion … will cause such movement to become circular , without the medium of a water-wheel , for grinding wheat and other grain , and for grinding , rolling , hammering , and other uses in mechanical operations ’ . |
| 20 | 8 The stimulus is the pin which when pressed onto the hand , causes us to feel pain . |
| 21 | These are commands selected from menus displayed on the screen although the keyboard is used , the main input device is currently the ‘ mouse ’ which when moved on a table produces corresponding movements of a pointer arrow on the screen . |
| 22 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 23 | Certain conditions can be described specifically e.g. broken limb etc , which when allied with the claimant 's occupation can generally provide a good indication of the potential duration of a claim . |
| 24 | which when chilled in the fridge ( not freezer ) acts as a cold compress for baby 's gums and helps to reduce any discomfort he 's feeling . |
| 25 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |
| 26 | Coats of arms are described according to rules known as blazon , a term which when used as a noun is a description in words of a coat and , when as the verb ‘ ( to ) blazon ’ , the act of so describing . |
| 27 | Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained . |
| 28 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
| 29 | One is a preparation of dried bacterial cultures which when added to the drain is reactivated and break down fats into soluble form . |
| 30 | The final dividend will stay at 7.6 pence per share , which when added to the interim dividend of 3.3 pence , makes an unchanged total of 10.9 pence . |