Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They more or less called him a fool when he tried to change back into whatever it was our current whatever it was and if that 's the case erm Hungar Hungarians are holding on to this two thousand pound , it 's surety is n't it ? |
| 2 | She could have passed by without rumbling the Josephites , or just given them a light pasting and taken their food and fuel . |
| 3 | All you need to do is pop in to your local Radio Rentals shop … or just give us a quick call . |
| 4 | I have never in my life , in public or in private , in earnest or in jest , either called or even thought myself a fascist . |
| 5 | Bosses were warned yesterday that secretaries have the power to banish them to the back of aircraft or even give them a poor hire car . |
| 6 | They would rather ring for a cab for you , or even give you a lift home , than have to deal with any attack that could be made on you on your lonely way home . |
| 7 | I could see him thumb through several papers before returning to the counter with a single sheet ; he made no attempt to invite me in or even to offer me a chair . |
| 8 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 9 | The oriental forests also contain small creatures that perhaps give us a glimpse of the kind of animals that , 70 million years ago , led to the evolution of the first placental mammals and so to humans . |
| 10 | There 's memorable dialogue in this film , not least in the last scene , which turns Jane Darwell , as Ma Joad , into a spokeswoman for all the oppressed of the Earth and ends the picture on a defiant , upbeat note that rightly won her an Oscar . |
| 11 | We made a very definite decision some years ago to make the Gardener Centre look towards the community as a whole , rather than just make it a university toy , or part of the formal academic programme . |
| 12 | Your Bristol & West Mortgage Advisor is the ‘ anchorman ’ ( or woman ) for the whole operation — and does a lot more than just give you a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ when you ask for a mortgage . |
| 13 | On the strength of this scanty victory ( 23,000 votes , i.e. 28 per cent of the total number cast ) this largely unknown candidate was now treated by the media as ‘ the front runner ’ and ‘ the man to beat ’ , allowing him to gather the momentum that finally brought him the Democratic nomination . |
| 14 | Yet it was the submission of two ‘ humorous ’ scripts in ‘ The Raconteur ’ series that finally won me a job with the C.B.C . |
| 15 | Spenser is arguing from the specific perspective of a militant Protestant New English settler in Ireland and that hardly makes him a typical Elizabethan . |
| 16 | He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich . |
| 17 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 18 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 19 | ‘ And that automatically makes me a fully paid-up member of the jet-set ? ’ |
| 20 | The kidnap has apparently been perpetrated by a cell of international terrorists , and that automatically makes it a matter for state security . |
| 21 | I think that probably makes you a slag |
| 22 | The turboprop has also undergone a maturing process that now makes it an easy engine to work on and spectacularly reliable . |
| 23 | I know he said it in anger but you do n't even say things in anger if you do n't feel them and that really bothers me a bit . |
| 24 | That meant he did n't take her anger seriously , thought he could beat her hands down , and that surely gave her the advantage ? |
| 25 | United staged a fight-back that almost brought them a point . |
| 26 | Now , however , these risk management features can be separately engineered with a toolkit of financial instruments , so that a borrower can usually raise finance with liability features that closely match what the business needs . |
| 27 | A good tutorial that certainly taught me a thing or two about sound waves , this package is ideal for the student to help with his revision or a school physics department with computer facilities . |
| 28 | There was n't much I could tell 'em except ter give 'em a description o' the Italian-lookin' bloke . |
| 29 | So , time and time again , when you actually look at it , when you actually look at this position that we find ourselves in , there is n't an easy receipt to be made that can be used that actually provided what the business is about . |
| 30 | I think people find that more difficult than actually saying what a time signature is . |