Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After jointing and gluing ( be careful where you stop and start your tongues ) , two pieces can be cut off to finish at four and a half inches each . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has made it clear where we stand and we now want to know where the Labour party stands . |
| 3 | It seems clear that they do and that a comprehension of such differentiation and its basis is part of the apparatus of significant agents , and in particular of speculative builders , in their own active differentiation of locales . |
| 4 | Jacqueline made it clear that she disapproved and eventually told Catherine to move out . |
| 5 | It is surely conceivable that she heard and had pity on us … |
| 6 | She says ; They all do it on bikes on the high wire so he wanted to do something different so he went and put shopping baskets on his feet . |
| 7 | The street ahead was clear so I slowed and risked a look in the mirror . |
| 8 | In a recent survey one in five incontinent women were afraid that they smelt and one in nine believed that sexual activity was compromised . |
| 9 | she does n't seem the type that would be a school teacher I mean the erm that erm seven , eight year old that she teaches and I just think what she 's like at school . |
| 10 | ‘ Some people expect a movie to be more than entertaining if they go and just laugh all the way through , they think there 's something wrong . |
| 11 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 12 | Behind him , Pipkin shivered in the damp and he turned and nuzzled him ; much as the general , with nothing left to do , might fall to considering the welfare of his servant , simply because the servant happened to be there . |
| 13 | Unfortunately for his system , they break free while he sleeps and take over his story themselves . |
| 14 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |
| 15 | She will go free before I do and so long as she is captive will I be . |
| 16 | Quate would like to see the SAM used to watch polymer chains in rubber as they stretch and bounce back . |
| 17 | She knew that his Gothic romance and glossary were being turned down by publisher after publisher and he grew despondent as he rewrote and rewrote again . |
| 18 | It was light when she awakened and eased her limbs to a more comfortable position on the soft bed . |
| 19 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 20 | ‘ They must always be careful when they adjust and react to television that they do n't change the nature of their sport . |
| 21 | Moreover it saved us as a family from being caught in the 1914 — 18 war as my sister and I were eighteen and sixteen years old when it finished and almost all our contemporary male cousins were killed . |
| 22 | We are not sorry that it failed and that , accordingly , Chapter 9 breaks into dialogue . |
| 23 | It was still too strong so we sat and waited . |
| 24 | We had to have solved so much problems and I just this way and I just would n't have it you know it 's just impossible it 's impossible and I hummed and hawed which way and hummed and hawed which way . |
| 25 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 26 | ROUNDABOUTS ARE SAFE AND SIMPLE IF YOU KNOW AND USE THESE RULES … |
| 27 | He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do . |
| 28 | Well I said to Diane you know , I did n't laugh , I did n't think it was funny , I thought it was sad and I said but he needs help , if Vaughan 's you know , he 's got two sons , but Mark 's a bit hopeless and he was at Oxford anyway , I said surely somebody should go and get him some some treatment , sanitation . |
| 29 | Actually , the Governor would have ample reason to feel paranoid if he did but know the gist of the message Jaq intended to send . |
| 30 | Inside , the stove kept me warm while I cooked or whenever I made a mug of tea which was three or four times a night . |