Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 2 | General practitioners ' threshold for visiting is probably lower for patients on lists that they cover than for their own patients . |
| 3 | There they spend the summer in a state of suspended animation , sustained by the fat reserves that they accumulated when they were caterpillars . |
| 4 | Joanne 's commitment to the next 12 months will leave her little time for the hobbies that she enjoyed before tennis came along . |
| 5 | I like the books , the original books that I had when I was a little rather than the new books . |
| 6 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 7 | With his old-fashioned grace Murphy even mentioned in at least two speeches that he wondered whether the World Cup , and the impassioned pursuit of it by some countries , was really a good thing after all . |
| 8 | A lot of clients that I had when |
| 9 | Another dhāmi has joined him and they link arms for a while and then move closer together , stretching their arms across each other 's shoulders so they dance as one , their bodies tilting first forwards and then back as they bounce across the roof . |
| 10 | He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice . |
| 11 | For a brief moment there was recognition in his eyes and he reached for he hand , pulling back before the contact was made . |
| 12 | The question was casual but Rachel thought she detected a flicker of interest in Louise 's blue eyes and she wondered if the stories about herself and David had reached the welfare office yet or whether she was simply becoming paranoid where he was concerned . |
| 13 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 14 | The things that endure and that matter , I am convinced , are the human relationships and I think as I represent the , the group here today I , I am joined by six other people with associations with the group . |
| 15 | The air pressure forced me to my knees and I watched while the wind screwed great oak trees out of the earth and then dropped them in a mess of green leaves and splintered wood . |
| 16 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 17 | A significant minority of men aged 17–24 take risks when they drive because they feel confident in their ability behind the wheel . |
| 18 | And that 's why he said you can go and pick as many plums as you like cos we just have n't |
| 19 | Her ears are so stretched by ornaments that they flap as she leans towards me . |
| 20 | These are states that we acquire as life 's internal and external pressures take their toll . |
| 21 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 22 | What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say |
| 23 | Later reports from the IBM Corp annual meeting in Tampa , Florida on Monday stress the anger of shareholders that we forecast when we mentioned that the meeting was to be held in America 's retirement capital : ‘ IBM stock no longer provides for your old age , but it certainly hastens its arrival , ’ one irate shareholder told Louis Gerstner during the annual meeting ; some 2,300 shareholders , mostly elderly investors and current or former IBM employees , crowded into the Tampa Convention Center for the meeting . |
| 24 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 25 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 26 | Are they conventional rules that we learn as we learn , say , table manners ? |
| 27 | When the naive inductivist , and many other empiricists , assume that there is something unique given to us in experience that can be interpreted in various ways , they are assuming , without argument and in spite of much evidence to the contrary , some one-to-one correspondence between the images on our retinas and the subjective experiences that we have when seeing . |
| 28 | What are the emotions that you feel as you think about them ? |
| 29 | No aid , however beneficial , is totally without disadvantages and children often need positive encouragement in practising their use before they become aware of the advantages that they offer when adroitly used . |
| 30 | The material in the dialogues will help you memorize useful phrases that you need when you want to go visiting or generally whenever you want to communicate with people . |