Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ … ] nowhere , except Paris , is it performed better than here , and you would doubtless be well instructed to see me sometimes beat time [ battre la mesure ] and give the tempos [ mouvemens ] with Lully 's famous stick [ canne ] . |
| 2 | That made me just want revenge . |
| 3 | He told her plainly , ‘ My reason was this : I have no wish to lose my newly appointed designer at such a crucial stage in the proceedings . |
| 4 | By then he should have fully recovered from the injured right thigh muscle that has delayed his eagerly awaited debut in Italian football . |
| 5 | John Wisson was driving through Milton Keynes with his wife and an auntie to see his newly born grandson . |
| 6 | Ricard wiped his constantly dripping nose . |
| 7 | Corvan seems to draw on the ‘ traditional ’ associations — the feelings of continuity — clustered around the Scottish tune , ‘ Na Good Luck about the House ’ , to support his nostalgically cast complaint . |
| 8 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 9 | In future , students will be able to take individual Higher National Units or build them up to gain group HNC or HND awards . |
| 10 | In 1724 the University Garden needed more space and Boerhaave used his newly purchased country estate at nearby Oud-Poelgeest as an extension . |
| 11 | I say I usually use celery but I say that grows wild in the school , so we use that |
| 12 | So though I was a member of the Travellers ’ and did my serious entertaining there , for socialising I infinitely preferred ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 13 | They also made me extremely randy , an effect I pointed out to you , who seemed unaffected in that department and were astonished that they should stimulate my already overwrought sexuality — ‘ oversexed and under seventy ’ is how I still think of myself . |
| 14 | Mowbray stroked his evenly clipped beard . |
| 15 | No one else has got , has someone else got responsibility for client contact record sheet ? |
| 16 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 17 | At the moment we have a tour which has somebody else playing Lady but we 've got Judi Dench now so that 's that 's that . |
| 18 | In moving towards a satisfying identification of some entity , the mind of a speaker will naturally tend to describe it initially by matching its roughly perceived whole against those properties that are most common in use and perceptually basic . |
| 19 | Evidence of change lay in the increasing local diversity of management arrangements as authorities and managers used their new found autonomy to shape structures and roles to suit themselves . |
| 20 | We send you in to do battle with the enemy , and what happens ? |
| 21 | During the early and mid-1980s , there were persistent shortages in the money market and the Bank of England found itself regularly providing assistance to the market in the form of purchases of commercial bills . |
| 22 | ‘ But how come you still get animal experiments if that 's the case ? |
| 23 | I slip some things into my holdall and work through five different ways to say I 'm sorry , but ‘ How come you only work night time ? ’ she wants to know . |
| 24 | How many times has one ever had recourse to a term like anadiplosis ? |
| 25 | Each member has one democratically elected representative on the board , who , in turn , has one vote either to admit or reject new members . |
| 26 | ‘ Many of the artists in the 1993 Biennial exhibition work consciously to deconstruct and de-center the politically constructed site of whiteness and its relation to the ever-changing direction of Americanness ’ , writes one newly appointed curator , who is said to be already organising an exhibition scheduled for 1995 on the deconstruction of the African-American male , ‘ the body provides an immediate site for discussions of culture , gender , class , and sexual specificity . |
| 27 | Pausing to listen for any sounds of activity before making her dash across to the cover of the fosse , she found herself automatically reciting part of the Litany to the Blessed Virgin : " Mother most pure , Mother undefiled , Mother most admirable , Mother of good counsel , Mother of our creator , Mother of our Saviour , Virgin most prudent , Virgin most venerable … mystical rose , Tower of David , House of Gold , Ark of the Covenant … " |
| 28 | Has anybody actually taken advantage of that ? |
| 29 | Now the new regime want him back to stand trial , but to get extradition they have to establish a prima facie case under British law and their system is so different from ours that their evidence wo n't stand up over here . |
| 30 | But seeing her sister 's eyes turn from contemplating the deep indigo square of sky above the courtyard , and come to rest on her face in grief-stricken entreaty , she faltered , shrugged , and with impatient gestures , moved her over to make room on the bench where she dumped herself down . |