Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I back away . |
| 32 | So I back away from them . |
| 33 | When I back there I am sure I will have changed to a certain extent and I hope it will have helped to develop my managerial skills . ’ |
| 34 | " I change there for Bisbee . |
| 35 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 36 | I have no commercial gallery and I sell only through commissions and the Royal Academy ; moreover having always had a teaching job , I have no real need to sell . |
| 37 | I SELL very well in Spain . |
| 38 | There were disappointments , and among these , our failure to establish and sustain common ground between English and French students and the one that I regret most . |
| 39 | These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones . |
| 40 | ‘ I regret ever allowing you to talk me into this crazy scheme ! ’ she exclaimed as she slid into bed and pulled the duvet up to her chin . |
| 41 | I have to say that I regret deeply , deeply that I could not persuade her to make a film of Tosca . |
| 42 | I regret only that the article entitled ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ and published in The Criterion for January 1938 , is not better . |
| 43 | That 's the certificate which I regret now is with South Staffs museum at Lichfield . |
| 44 | I regret therefore that I can not assist further with this matter |
| 45 | Somebody 's slipped over and they 've got all the grit in their knuckles in the part of their knuckles and you want to bandage the hand or there 's a cut on the hand , even on the palm , we can do that one later when it 's really , when it 's really a gash , gushing blood we can do this afternoon , I repeat again none of these which you 've done this morning will control severe bleeding , get it into your heads this is just to cover to keep infection out , alright , these are not to control severe bleeding just covering a minor wound or a graze , right ? |
| 46 | I repeat again , now it 's Us an Dem , |
| 47 | I repeat again in 1992 our major aim as a business is to improve the service we sell so well ; that we provide to our customers . |
| 48 | I repeat clearly today that the Government will continue to honour their commitment to people in that category . |
| 49 | What harm is there in trying to achieve better value for money and more choice for the consumer by more competition — always giving an assurance , which I repeat today , that we will ensure that the uniform tariff structure remains in being even in rural areas ? |
| 50 | ‘ Before the sun , ’ I repeat matter-of-factly . |
| 51 | I declare here and now that I intend to follow that same path . |
| 52 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 53 | I mean slightly , ah no this is gon na be a great laugh ! |
| 54 | Let , let us leave it till then because I mean otherwise we 're gon na get bogged down in this and whe when we really are briefing procedures . |
| 55 | But if he 's wrong I mean you ca n't just come back and be contentious if you 're wrong cos I mean otherwise you know it 's , it 's of no pr of no work . |
| 56 | I mean otherwise he should n't be the Managing Director , he should n't be the Chairman of the Board . |
| 57 | But I mean otherwise it 's got all the , all the good points in there , it 's a pity that councils do n't have these meaningful names |
| 58 | I mean properly ? " |
| 59 | ‘ There are any number of young girls you can marry if you wanted to — I mean properly , not as a farrago of the real thing . ’ |
| 60 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |