Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also had strong opinions and found it hard to " brook any delay or frustration . |
| 2 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 3 | They chose instead to define only one boundary ( the lower ) of each division and to define it by a " golden spike " ( unfortunately only hypothetical ) driven into the most suitable horizon in the most appropriate section . |
| 4 | Erm now in general terms , this budget keeps within policy guidelines and I am grateful to Environment Committee for sticking to their lower level and help us out as mentioned yesterday . |
| 5 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 6 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |
| 7 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 8 | He smoked a cigarette and looked at her stubbly hair and bought her another brandy . |
| 9 | ‘ Bring me the women first , ’ Implexion had said , striding into the largest tent and making it his temporary headquarters . |
| 10 | If she was older she would go into that kitchen and tear her apart . |
| 11 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 12 | It is not a comprehensive guide to symptoms and services , but it should point you in the right direction and show you where to go for help . |
| 13 | It is not a comprehensive guide to symptoms and services , but it should point you the right direction and show you where to go for help . |
| 14 | He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train . |
| 15 | After the breakfast things had been washed up I had to take the milk separator to bits and wash each part and dry them in front of the fire and then put them together again ready for the night 's milking . |
| 16 | Moves are now being made to lift the aircraft from its watery grave and preserve it locally . |
| 17 | In other words , management must continue to develop their own professional skills and sell them to the best bidder . |
| 18 | Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty |
| 19 | Vocalists had to bob down out of the way during instrumental breaks , and those unfamiliar with recording technique had to be man-handled by the recording director to bring them close to the horn on low notes and push them further away on high notes . |
| 20 | There would be problems about fixing the boundaries of regional authorities and providing them with finance — a regional rate would scarcely be popular . |
| 21 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 22 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 23 | Then he bundled her now rosy body into her dry shirt and sat her down on the sleeping-bag to vigorously rub her hair dry . |
| 24 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 25 | With the Hughes — Ryan Act of 1974 , Congress endeavoured to impose some discipline on the CIA by requiring the agency to obtain presidential approval before embarking on covert operations and obliging it to notify eight different Congressional committees either before , or soon after , such operations commenced . |
| 26 | After all the peel and pith have been removed , cut in between the membranes of each segment and separate them . |
| 27 | And you had to do all that dusting and keep it and you 'd read over all these things , every time you dusted until you got to know them . |
| 28 | The income is 168 hours and remember you can not increase this even in times of severe inflation — you have all the time there is . |
| 29 | Let me just , le I 'm not really a , I 'm not really a very numerate political scientist but let me just run some numbers by you to give you an idea of the escalation of the change . |
| 30 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |