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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He smoked a cigarette and looked at her stubbly hair and bought her another brandy . |
| 5 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moves are now being made to lift the aircraft from its watery grave and preserve it locally . |
| 9 | In other words , management must continue to develop their own professional skills and sell them to the best bidder . |
| 10 | Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There would be problems about fixing the boundaries of regional authorities and providing them with finance — a regional rate would scarcely be popular . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 19 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 20 | When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise . |
| 21 | Sheer walls thirty feet high enclose you , the way upstream being a clamber up the smooth lip of a nine-foot dry waterfall that takes you into Upper Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 22 | And while such mundane things as fluctating interest rates and ever-increasing gas , electricity , water bills remain on the scene , it 's a strong possibility that ‘ wider and deeper ownership ’ will be hampered by thevery economic policies that spawned it . |
| 23 | What is it about local economic policies that make them ‘ local ’ ? |
| 24 | The Johnson group seized the wounded Doe and took him away , while the ECOWAS force looked on , apparently helpless . |
| 25 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 26 | While there he begged a look around a semi-derelict Dakota and realised he was hooked on propliners ! |
| 27 | The proximity of Tribschen to Basle obviously made contact easier , but it was undoubtedly Nietzsche 's new professional eminence that made it particularly welcome to Wagner and led to a rapid development of the relationship between the two . |
| 28 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 29 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 30 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |