Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surgeons tried in vain to sew it back on . |
| 2 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 3 | All that holds him back from doing it himself is the desire for an heir to the clan — an heir of his own blood ! ’ |
| 4 | After all that psyching myself up for it . |
| 5 | In conversation with the boys they learnt of Minton 's homosexuality and though this ruled him out as a potential husband it did not diminish their desire to be in his company . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) This plays itself out in spatial terms in the restructuration of the centre of our great cities and the creation of a large group of central-city dwelling ‘ yuppies ’ among the post-industrial middle classes . |
| 7 | From this he deduced that the boiler was too small and this led him on to wondering why the engine was so inefficient . |
| 8 | He argues that job evaluation is not the dire threat some make it out to be — simply because it may not catch on . |
| 9 | But I have a feeling it might be easier to mull it over at the next meeting . |
| 10 | But finally the Social moved us out of there because we had no hot water . |
| 11 | So we 've drawn the graph and now we do n't have to keep calcul I mean this is easy it' probably easier to work it out in your head then to especially with these figures . |
| 12 | It would be easier to work it out from this would n't it ? |
| 13 | This traced itself back to John Merchant , a Fleming given a permit almost 100 years earlier , in 1492 , to export 50 tuns of ‘ ale called berre ’ to the Low Countries . |
| 14 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 15 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 16 | Some put it down to the sheer popularity of the winner Nigel Jones — others to the alleged racism of would-be Tory voters , unwilling to endorse the party 's official candidate , the barrister John Taylor . |
| 17 | ‘ This establishes what out of all the training we were doing contributes to any of the five critical success factors we 've identified as key and without which we would fail . ’ |
| 18 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 19 | And , at this stage , it would be quite wrong to rule her out as a suspect . |
| 20 | The front panel controls are identical for both channels , except for the centrally located stereo link switch ( pressing this hands everything over to the channel A controls ) and the power switch . |
| 21 | You know , cos I 've brought this to stick it on with . |
| 22 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 23 | And that might seem a rather odd way to actually spend some of your redundancy money , but perhaps this leads us on to another area influencing the demand , and that 's to do with , if you like , psychology . |
| 24 | This leads us on to a third important point about the relation of the Holy Spirit to Jesus . |
| 25 | This leads us on to acceptance sampling . |
| 26 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 27 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 28 | And this gets us back to looking at process . |
| 29 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 30 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |