Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Honest , mister , I 'm the 'ardest luck case I ever 'eard of , ’ she said , halfway through the second sandwich . |
| 2 | On this part of the case I respectfully agree with the observations of Lord Donaldson M.R. , at p. 325f , in the Court of Appeal and of Neill L.J. , at p. 328f . |
| 3 | Even though I am used to playing at a higher level I still feel under pressure when I entered county cricket , so I needed the guys to rally round . ’ |
| 4 | I have good reason to remember a booklength early monograph of hers , published in the British journal of Animal Behaviour : it was almost the first text I ever read as an apprentice sub-editor . |
| 5 | An Add-A-Plane jig and planer I normally use to thickness ¼in strips for canoe building provided the answer . |
| 6 | ‘ When I 'm asked with what should you drink whisky I always say with moderation . |
| 7 | And on Sunday afternoon I often went to Kidlington , to eat large teas and remember another world . |
| 8 | As I was quite unable to organise the shop myself and continue with my studies at the university I quickly came to the conclusion that I would have to appoint a temporary manager . |
| 9 | Now what you want to do in the privacy of your own home in terms of art is one thing , but if I 'm using public money I really need to be able to justify it . |
| 10 | The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 . |
| 11 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 12 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |
| 13 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 14 | However , if those who successfully gain the top , with or without the burden of living-room furniture , feel blessed with the exhilaration and wonder of their surroundings then I am happy for them , and glad they are able to share an emotion I regularly enjoy on the hills . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 16 | You have to have an open mind I always think with these things . |
| 17 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 18 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 19 | There 's a beauty special offering 50 tips on how to look good this summer and a piece I particularly liked on the importance of laughing . |
| 20 | In fact , the first piece I ever wrote about fish was on this topic . |
| 21 | LADY JONES : Such sackcloth and ashes doings for a wedding I never heard of ! |
| 22 | When Watkins put forward his observations regarding remnants of prehistoric alignments in Britain he ran head-on into official archaeological thinking which still believed in the Piltdown Man . |
| 23 | It will be noted they provided the bulk of the players for the Canadian side which so impressed against France and New Zealand in the World Cup . |
| 24 | The assembly was the first to be held since April 1987 , when Mahathir had narrowly survived a leadership challenge , a contest which subsequently led to a split within the party [ see pp. 35459 ; 35773 ; 36657 ] . |
| 25 | The assembly was the first to be held since 1987 when Mahathir narrowly survived a leadership challenge from Razaleigh , a contest which subsequently led to a split within UMNO . |
| 26 | Moreover , Bradley continues , the specific nature of cultural goods , which Adorno recognizes , can not be adequately covered by his argument that the apparent use-value of popular music ( its ‘ immediacy ’ , its status as ‘ art ’ and as a repository of ‘ human ’ feeling , and so on ) is an illusion which actually functions in the service of exchange-value ( it is an aspect of what people buy ) . |
| 27 | After that , it was easier to see that Strabo himself largely depended on posidonius and that Caesar , too , must have used Posidoriius in the ethnographic excursuses of the Bellurn Gallicurn . |
| 28 | Proceedings were brought by the revenue which ultimately resulted in a Divisional Court holding that the employees in question were not ‘ male servants ’ within the meaning of the Act . |
| 29 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 30 | A police car was stoned by onlookers as it chased a stolen car which later crashed into a lampost . |