Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't that veil on them like they used |
| 2 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 3 | I sold that stick of mine long ago . |
| 4 | They apply for instance to a third such element , namely the military , to which may , for present purposes , be added the para-military , security and police forces of the state , and which together form that branch of it mainly concerned with the ‘ management of violence ’ . |
| 5 | As he whispered , Donald 's resonant , trained voice repeated each sentence after him so that all could hear , from the Macleans of Morvern and Coll and the seven other members of the Clan Council away past the tacksmen and subtenants to the farthest cottar on the damp sand . |
| 6 | But erm , course , we er you did n't er think about that part of it then like , you know . |
| 7 | But they assured him that they could take that part of it out , which of course they did . |
| 8 | It would have been more sensible to reduce the period span of the book , especially as Eccleshall himself acknowledges that Conservatism in its recognizably ‘ modern ’ form did not emerge until the early nineteenth century . |
| 9 | ‘ As you say , the door was locked , no one else was in the room and the fire was meant to kill swiftly , expertly , and with little damage to anyone else . |
| 10 | What pleased her enormously was that over these garments Tina actually wore one of the patchwork aprons she had made and given her years before , with little hope of their ever being used . |
| 11 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 12 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 13 | ‘ Remember , he was playing for Great Britain under-21s four years ago and has all that experience behind him even though he is still a baby in playing terms . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 's little fear of you ever being plump , Seb Quilter , you 're always far too busy . |
| 15 | She was n't going to tell that fear to anyone though ; she was n't having them prying or saying that Dorothy ought to be glad of a new brother or sister . |
| 16 | I could put all that fear behind me now and get going again . |
| 17 | I saw that photograph of you both in the paper . ’ |
| 18 | She 'd wondered who 'd handle that side of it somehow she could n't imagine the night manager himself with a housekeeping trolley piled high with sheets and towels . |
| 19 | I ca n't recall when , when you say guarding , I ca n't recall exactly what the officers were doing but that would have been erm one of P C or P C or both , I do n't really know who was erm sorting that side of it out . |
| 20 | Of course , that side of it still existed unchanged . |
| 21 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 22 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
| 23 | They do n't like to do it what even in under those , I mean the other tooth 's nearly the same size , this is what happened with that tooth of mine there , I was |
| 24 | To fill that gap for us immediately . |
| 25 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 26 | What had brought this change about she hardly knew , but whatever the cause she did not regret the consequence . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 28 | This addition to our already extensive legal provision will give a right to at least 14 weeks ' maternity leave and protection against dismissal on grounds of pregnancy . |
| 29 | He was just another wally like anyone else . |
| 30 | He also studied — between Helvoetfluys and the Brill — the production of madder , Rubia tinctorum , used in dyeing and ‘ took some minutes of it down upon the spot . ’ |