Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 2 | I understand my hon. Friend 's point , but the section is entirely clear and I think that all local authorities are aware of its provisions , which place the primary duty of enforcing the Shops Act 1950 on them . |
| 3 | His wife cares for him at home but this is very demanding and she finds that she needs regular breaks . |
| 4 | Really that 's very interesting and I accept that erm I personally was do the figures include the anticipated increase which we already know ? |
| 5 | Some of the leaves turn yellowy-brown and I wonder if it is through lack of food . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's that sort of sexual feeling really because you are on a fantastic high and you feel as though you could do anything . |
| 7 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 8 | My expectations of this field are still high and I believe that further visits will be rewarding . |
| 9 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , he died intestate and she claimed that she was absolutely entitled to the deceased 's house and other property . |
| 12 | He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere . |
| 13 | No blessings for the meek and everybody shakes when a predator begins to hunt . ’ |
| 14 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 15 | I asked if it was foreign and she said that it was . ’ |
| 16 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 17 | This is not acceptable and we believe that increasing the charge to non-Barclays customers will discourage them from using Barclays branches and leave our counters available from our own customers . ’ |
| 18 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 19 | But I know that I 'm clever and I know that have it ! |
| 20 | His expression was stony and she knew that he blamed her . |
| 21 | People know this , they identify with this , they recognise that you 're back-tracking and it looks as though your ke case is hereby weakened . |
| 22 | Now they are really dangerous and I understand that even today they are responsible for a number of deaths and serious accidents each year among farm workers . |
| 23 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 24 | He protested that it was totally impossible and they replied that they had evidence to make certain that he would be convicted . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 28 | She sounded serious and I knew that , this being so , she was talking about herself . |
| 29 | He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do . |
| 30 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |