Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted $4500 for the job — once he had seen what it entailed — whereas because of the limited budget everyone else was on scale , amounting to a few hundred dollars . |
| 2 | I ai n't no building them just to get all out and up done , I mean the programme now looks crowded , but when you look at the new programme it 's just full , there 's nowhere else and no more room in them boxes to write my instead of one every two , three months , there 's four and five every month starts something |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , I was an apprentice meself once . |
| 4 | Of course nothing remotely approaches the indulgent , yet time and time again Pollini characterises the music with an infinite subtlety which makes other interpretations appear almost cosmetic in comparison : listen to how gently he coaxes ( never caresses ! ) the opening phrases of and you 'll hear what I mean . |
| 5 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 6 | If they like sentence me straight away for doing something like I 'd think to myself is it worth it ? |
| 7 | PREVIOUSLY FILMED at least four times , James Fenimore Cooper 's 1826 novel is one of those cornerstones of American literature no-one actually reads . |
| 8 | Still got all the homework to do , well my German , my cooking nothing else . |
| 9 | It gets a bit dull with just the four of you , and of course everyone else has already made plans . ’ |
| 10 | If you buy defence everyone else gets the benefits . |
| 11 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 12 | ‘ Father , ’ said Tutilo , burning into startling whiteness , ‘ I pledge you my faith I never did nor never would have done him any harm , nor do I know of any who might need to wish him ill . |
| 13 | It 's a trick I never learnt . |
| 14 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 15 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 16 | I was so deep in the story I never noticed . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's the sweetest story I ever heard , ’ Zeke says . |
| 19 | Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not just the football , it 's a nice town and it 's a nice day out ; if we went out of existence I just would n't know where to turn . |
| 21 | Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum . |
| 22 | In accordance with Clause 2 sub-clause 3 of the Conditions of Contract I hereby authorise my Acting Depute Director ( Projects ) or his successor to act on my behalf generally in respect of this Contract . |
| 23 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 24 | Outgoings will vary but in my own case I already know that for gas , water and the poll tax I shall need an extra £132 . |
| 25 | In this case I also wanted to get the cut edges of the neckband tidied up as soon as possible — remember this particular garment has been ferried to and fro to class and back . |
| 26 | no , and any case I just remembered Nicola 's was only hundred and sixty . |
| 27 | In this case I usually get them running round for a while jumping , hopping , walking backwards and also get them to shout some calls . |
| 28 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 29 | ‘ Honest , mister , I 'm the 'ardest luck case I ever 'eard of , ’ she said , halfway through the second sandwich . |
| 30 | Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian . |