Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He criticised those who ‘ planted them … under the dropping and shade of large trees , where they seldom thrive and if they do , the pleasure of them is lost , because they are excluded from sight . ’ |
| 2 | Put candles on altar where they usually go and again know where your places are in church . |
| 3 | From the very first page , where he both mistranscribes and then mistranslates further the opening of Terce in a Book of Hours , he matches marginal pictures with random words of text beside them , wildly associating words out of context with pictures near them in the margins , apparently grasping the flimsiest of puns and word associations . |
| 4 | Voluntary effort is especially prominent in work with special problem groups — alcoholics and drug addicts , for example — where it both innovates and complements statutory provision . |
| 5 | Although I fully understand and share the concern that has been widely expressed about the implications of this case , I have no plans to institute any formal inquiry . |
| 6 | David 's got more sense than I ever had and Chris is a good girl . |
| 7 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 8 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 9 | But I was only a child , so I just stood and watched him out of sight and turned reluctantly to deliver his message . |
| 10 | She wanted him to go on , but he did n't , so she simply sat and dreamed and let her mind go floating out into the grey April morning towards the gulls and the sky and the sea . |
| 11 | We had to explain to them what a three-dimensional , you know , lock-up page was and why , you know , gutters were a certain width and if you had column rules and gutters , you know , why they were centered and why you could n't , if you had a wide margin below three columns of text why you did n't move the gutter beyond where the text was n't so white , or why you did n't move it down and have it join a rule here because it would have been a real pain in the arse to have to do that in metal , so you just sit and do it . |
| 12 | The former Spurs full-back , whose Wimbledon team were among the originators of the direct approach , complained : ‘ Leeds hoofed the ball about 50 times further than we ever did and relied on John Lukic knocking it on to Lee Chapman 's head for about 70 per cent of their attacks . ’ |
| 13 | He was jumping already so we just tripped and fell on him . |
| 14 | There 's no time for niceties , so we quickly dress and roll up our sleeping bags before the crowd outside invades in search of hot tea and coffee . |
| 15 | Although they neither rebelled nor resigned , their disenchantment was soon widely known . |
| 16 | Gleizes and Metzinger , themselves painters , and fascinated by purely formal pictorial problems , also began by seeing abstraction as the logical end , although they rapidly retreated and admitted the need , for the moment at least , of a certain coefficient of realism : ‘ … the painting imitates nothing and … must justify its existence in itself … |
| 17 | It has given its owners a greater degree of mobility than they hitherto possessed but the social and environmental cost has been considerable . |
| 18 | Shmueli for example argues that ‘ relationism ’ deserves more credit than it traditionally receives and that a ‘ dynamic synthesis ’ can lead to a new type of objectivity in the social sciences ( Shmueli 1977 ) . |
| 19 | He was n't strong enough to get on to the par-5s in two for eagle chances , so he just chipped and putted for birdies . |
| 20 | Half awake , he was hailed by a guard for , inadvertently he 'd cycled through the entrance gates , so he quickly turned and pedalled away with heart churning . |
| 21 | What does it matter to you if I never remarry or find a new father for Emily ? ’ |
| 22 | if I never drink nor smoke what else would I have ? |
| 23 | If I inadvertently forget and use 1 cc or 1 ml , they look baffled . |
| 24 | Yer arse 'll rip — have ye ever heard of a torn arse ? — if ye even try and struggle . ’ |
| 25 | He stared at her as if she already knew and was simply being obstructive . |
| 26 | She was worried that she would n't have an accurate idea of what she ate if she just picked and nibbled . |
| 27 | When asked by the judge if she ever drank or got aggressive . |
| 28 | But if the real Caroline was accessible to Jonathan Reeves , if she really liked and wanted that unprepossessing wimp , then she hardly merited the tribute even of his curiosity . |
| 29 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 30 | ‘ If you just go and talk to a girl in a club in England , she 'll think you 're stupid . |