Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their diet of fruit , insects and small mammals make them unsuitable for release elsewhere , says a spokesman for the Rio primate centre : " You could save one species but wipe out 40 others . " |
| 2 | I ca n't see nothing wrong with golliwogs anyway . |
| 3 | No well there 's nothing wrong in pay any . |
| 4 | During that summer I hitch-hiked to Regina as often as possible on weekends to visit Wilf Scott or Peter Friedgut . |
| 5 | Unfortunately for the non-American user , the headings consequently correspond to current American usage in both use of terms and spelling , and often need amendment to make them consistent with usage elsewhere . |
| 6 | Recently on the cover of Direct , was a young black person who was er , a depiction of somebody unemployed in Britain today . |
| 7 | She could make all the speeches she would like Tommaso to make , a hundred times over , and yet his awkwardness under her mother 's severity filled her full of pity too , and her chivalrous love returned to warm her and fortify her , suturing the cut that had opened in her earlier at his muteness the night before . |
| 8 | The butcher goes to take his leave of his hostess , but finding her naked in bed soon has his will of her , again promising her the sheepskin . |
| 9 | Much rarer than Greater Sandplover , from which distinguishable in winter only by size , darker plumage , shorter , less stout bill and more gregarious habits ; in summer both sexes as male Greater Sandplover but with breast warm buff . |
| 10 | To its regular readers it is also renowned for its humorous In England Now column , introduced 50 years ago and now the subject of a new anthology . |
| 11 | If Raine Spencer 's iron will and unswerving competence made her intolerant of others less efficient — in the words of one neighbour , the kind of woman who ‘ rubs up worthy souls the wrong way ’ — does she deserve the epitaph of the woman who alienated the children , sold the family silver , was short with servants and decorated Althorp in poor taste ? |
| 12 | After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now . |
| 13 | Do hearing people have a significant role in raising the level of deaf people 's lives to help them fit into society better ? |
| 14 | And how about you , Pam , were you fortunate at school too ? |
| 15 | I laughed and nodded in agreement all the way through Forget sex : are you good in bed together ? |
| 16 | Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers . |
| 17 | ‘ On the other hand , nobody is going to call you full of promise again , ’ says Laura , who is heading for 30 . |
| 18 | She 's er she nice in denim actually . |
| 19 | I want to get you ready for bed early tonight . |
| 20 | Are you ready for coffee yet ? |
| 21 | When Michael asked me later ‘ Are you ready for Sunset yet ? ’ , |
| 22 | Moving to the double-glazed dormer windows by her bed , she threw both panes open , to be rewarded by a vista of church spires , each one different in design yet each unmistakably decorated by copper strips and inlays , greened with age and atmosphere . |
| 23 | No , I 'll do it tomorrow then do something different for dinner tomorrow , well you can either try some , oh I 've got another here , we could try |
| 24 | Vaughan Williams J. seems to have had something similar in mind in Re New Mashonaland Exploration Company . |
| 25 | And it 's even better because I 've outwitted the TEAM , and there should be something good on tele tonight , and I wonder what there is to eat . |
| 26 | Thus the definition of need in old age , which was adopted by Beveridge and was subsequently followed by all post-war Governments , was a minimalist one concerned with subsistence rather than the full participation of pensioners in society as equal citizens with other age groups . |
| 27 | ‘ I think that there 's something insane about fame anyway . |
| 28 | Even the Irish edition of the Daily Star said something positive about Sellafield recently when it reported that radon gas was to blame for 500 deaths every year . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 30 | That 's why I 'm allowed to swim in the secret pool — a reward because her mother made me responsible for Aleena whenever she 's on the Mantela . ’ |