Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of this tour , so far as the ladies of the party were concerned , tended to confirm all my previous impressions of their valour and vigour , and also to the strengthening of my determination never to undertake or propose any arrangement from which the ladies must of course be excluded . |
| 2 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 3 | Yeah , that unfortunately the majority of people say you 'll get money in a couple of days , then the person would start to argue , because they need their money now to go and buy their shopping . |
| 4 | Every other farm in the dale was blessed with children able to share the work but all they had was elderly folk who did their level best to help but were just too old and infirm . |
| 5 | And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ? |
| 6 | Blinking her eyes rapidly to try and clear her head , Sarah said , ‘ Come inside and I 'll go and look . ’ |
| 7 | Her hand trembled but she could n't even tear her gaze away to check whether any of the liquid had spilt , as Rune 's low , intense voice continued smoothly . |
| 8 | The Press Complaints Commission is now in operation , and we will monitor its work carefully to see if self-regulation succeeds . |
| 9 | People put together their bids only to find that the work invariably stays with the in-house team . |
| 10 | Each goal is planned for a week but some may possibly require longer ; our dieter will have to take extra time if it is taking her body longer to adjust than she anticipates at the start . |
| 11 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |
| 12 | The early problems of the PFF gave its critics much to enjoy since the Force was Pathfinder in name only , The four initial squadrons , each with a different type of aircraft , had essentially different operational capabilities . |
| 13 | I should like hon. Members to give TECs not only their support but the time to develop their approach locally to see whether they can meet the high expectations that understandably now exist . |
| 14 | Charlie rose from the chair and shook her hand vigorously to confirm that his first deal was closed . |
| 15 | Under pressure from Congress and the media , he said , the agency had reviewed its files and questioned its agents overseas to see if there was any basis in fact for the NBC and ABC newscasts and other media reports asserting that Khalid Nazir Jafaar had been involved in a DEA operation known as Corea or Courier . |
| 16 | You make a cup of tea for a friend who has called around to express their condolences only to find as you pour it out , that there is no tea in the pot . |
| 17 | Oliver , observing the scene with the same keen interest as had she , munched his way through a Dickensian gingerbread cake , his emotions harder to determine than those of his companion . |
| 18 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 19 | He poked his nose outside to see if he could tie off the cord . |
| 20 | He referred to the Unemployed Electrician , but it was his habit never to concede that anyone in the team had a personal name . |
| 21 | STRICKEN Olympic skating star John Curry broke his silence yesterday to admit that he is dying from AIDS . |
| 22 | The rest of us put our heads together to see if we could n't all manage to get to it at Staines in Middlesex . |
| 23 | Stevie and I are going to put our heads together to try and reconstruct them for Midge . |
| 24 | So , then she said , oh right , I 'll get on your desk just to check that it 's alright , so she got , took my work essays off , and she got on my desk and then I said , oh I 'll help you down , so she sat on my desk to get off and of course it 's not attached |