Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Toby was n't God , except to me for just that second , and he 'd been hurt . |
| 2 | Yes I think my socks garnished with holly and ivy will last me for quite some time ! ! |
| 3 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 4 | OWNERS of motor vehicles are sitting ducks for avaricious chancellors who already screw them for far more cash in fuel and vehicle tax than is spent on the roads . |
| 5 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 6 | WHEN people digest the high living styles of star England cricketers like David Gower and Ian Botham , the inference is that I must be well off too , having played alongside them for so many years . |
| 7 | ‘ Before we appoint a new assistant , we interview them for quite some time . |
| 8 | He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them . |
| 9 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 10 | One government pamphlet complained how scarcely any of the Anglican clergy could find it in their hearts to thank the King , " and those Few that pretend to do it , have proceeded so Awkwardly in their Acknowledgments , as renders them of very little Value , since in the same addresses they also pressed for " the continuance of those Penal Laws , which diametrically oppose … the Royal Indulgence " . |
| 11 | Many girls wrote to me of exactly this kind of thing — for instance , Amelia , aged thirteen : |
| 12 | ‘ He reminded me of so many things I 'd half-forgotten . |
| 13 | We 'd worked together on a BBC play called Shiftwork and he had a slightly wry , sullen world-weariness about him which reminded me of so many downtrodden husbands . |
| 14 | All around , tacking between the galleys , milling around the Doge 's vessel , I see the myriad small craft by which for so many years Venice exerted its supremacy around the Adriatic shores . |
| 15 | His new habit of sleeping on and on to rid himself of as much time as possible and then of staying up drinking alone until very late only left him with none of his natural good time and hour upon hour of his bad . |
| 16 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 17 | Entering again , after ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , his valley of the dry bones , Eliot dismembered himself with scarcely less thoroughness in the new Christian poetry of Part II of Ash-Wednesday , published in 1927 . |
| 18 | My book shows that Modigliani was not that gloomy pessimist of morbid temperament who ‘ destroyed himself with as much care as he put into constructing his talent ’ , but that he never doubted his worth nor the imminence of success . |
| 19 | Too many customers wait too long for replies to their complaint — replies which in too many cases are badly written and do not deal with all aspects of the complaint . |
| 20 | I am glad that he has drawn the attention of the House to the situation in Scotland and to the law of Scotland , which in so many ways is superior to that of England . |
| 21 | He never admitted this to himself in so many words , which was probably why he had occasional attacks of breathlessness and a tendency to develop a rash behind his ears . |
| 22 | He did n't know what was happening between Gesner and Suzi any more , had n't seen either of them since the Season began , since that dreadful scene at Willi 's party , but he knew he had to submit himself to yet another bout of torture and watch them together on the stage . |
| 23 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 24 | Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought . |
| 25 | To suggest that the signs are up in order to show a ‘ vigorous contempt for the people whose productive labour pays for all their intellectual endeavour ’ is not only wrong but reinforces the old stereotype of ‘ them and us ’ which at least some colleges are trying to break down . |
| 26 | Obviously the main justification for location shooting is for outdoor work , but , given the costs of set-building , it is often realistic to film indoor material in a ‘ real ’ house — it is a moot point how ‘ lived-in ’ it ought to look : studio sets do tend to look like studio sets , but real houses are often too run-down to provide the slightly artificial air of super-tidiness which many commercials strive for and which at least some consumers seem to respond to . |
| 27 | Physics and chemistry , for example , seen to have had nothing like as much attention from the writers of fiction . |
| 28 | But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off . |
| 29 | For example , we know that some people eventually decided not to be recorded because of painful secrets in their lives , while there were others who for just this reason found it helpful to talk : but how far these two groups balance out can only be guessed . |
| 30 | I 'm contracted to tutor you for so many hours a day , and I 'm afraid I must insist on fulfilling my contract . ’ |