Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So nothing to do with pets really , just put up with the hope or you can always take yourself with you miaow spreading the . |
| 2 | Do not let the bird preen for at least half an hour or it will just pull the feather out . |
| 3 | Whatever the outcome , this is one play where you can truly say it is n't over till the fat lady ( or in this case , the fat man ) sings . |
| 4 | This base can be the rear seat rail , or another rail fitted above the seat , but if so , no more than 2in above the seat or it would also need to be curved to avoid discomfort . |
| 5 | The technique in Scale 1 is to fuel the recluse 's imaginative understanding of a condition where she can freely maximise her spiritual potential and , at the same time , promote the discipline which allows her to do so . |
| 6 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 7 | Continue on to Solva Harbour where you can still see eight of the original 12 lime kilns built there . |
| 8 | Other animals described in this book have occupied a specific ecological niche where they can quietly pursue their own speciality without embarking on any spectacular radiation in the manner of the ammonoids . |
| 9 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 10 | Martin Woodcock 's paintings of all known cotingas are generously proportioned and The Cotingas is an inspiration to any adventurous ornithologist looking for areas of study where he might still contribute to science by straightforward observation . |
| 11 | It is very important for the horse to be comfortable in his mouth or he will soon seek evasions of the bit . |
| 12 | Now , is it the intention of the people who asked us to take this action that we should just boycott Nestles products , or we should do the whole range of the conglomerate that owns all these people like Rowntrees and Cross and Blackwell , and many other companies as well . |
| 13 | Riding to help out usually gives you rides on a better horse than you would probably find at an average riding school and without the expense ! |
| 14 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 15 | ‘ The issue is , of course , when we come to sell off stock that we would otherwise have returned , what percentage of its normal retail price can we get ? ’ |
| 16 | We flagged it up , we 've now told the force that we can no longer meet our A L O requirements , and that 's it 's not a question of being awkward , we will not have the the A L O's the A L O's to do it |
| 17 | In Britain , comments like those of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford were typical : ‘ I put it to the men who play cricket and football that we must now all be prepared to stand by our country and to suffer for our country . ’ |
| 18 | Erm I mean we do n't even look at the figures on those , because it 's not the sort of investment that we would actually consider erm useful for a , for a longer term investor . |
| 19 | Means , in most of the reported cases , the naked penis although it may well be that exposure of the vagina would be within the mischief the offence is trying to prevent . |
| 20 | Then the fore and hind wings , bending under the additional stress of the turn , beat against one another making an audible rattle that you can easily hear as you sit watching them make their circuits over a pond . |
| 21 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 22 | The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’ |
| 23 | Rain feared they had drifted so-far into the events of the day of the murder that she would never draw him back to other matters . |
| 24 | It is similar to other schemes in allowing customers to reduce their monthly repayments in comparison to outright purchase or choosing a higher specification car than they could normally afford . |
| 25 | It is because of our defence programme 's ability to maintain an effective ordering programme that we can also attract interest among overseas countries . |
| 26 | Bearing in mind that we can possibly never be sure of the exact positions of the original markers , calculations using the evidence we do have shows a remarkable accuracy within the error parameters imposed by the geometry . |
| 27 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 28 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 29 | It crossed her mind that he might well be keeping out of her way after his failure to secure some kind of punishment for Matthew 's cruel and unacceptable behaviour earlier in the day . |
| 30 | So seriously analytical was Chapman 's mind that he would rarely comment on a match until several days later , after he had studied every move . |