Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll say well why did this cheque do so and so and why did this do so and so and like he said well when you 're talking about forty eight pound an hour you do n't want me poking round there trying to sort out the tax man |
| 2 | The organization which you asked me to set up now exists , at least in embryo . |
| 3 | Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now . |
| 4 | I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 5 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 6 | I do n't think I 'd ever really looked at him , to be honest . |
| 7 | I do n't think I 've ever really looked at it properly ‘ til now . ’ |
| 8 | I I eat I do n't usually take my first lot of tablets till sort of around dinner time . |
| 9 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 10 | Erm so we were saying for example , and this is what we , we 'd actually come up with , the five days of the week , and the three categories of staff , I mean I 've just obviously put erm C L As are in either C L or E O really |
| 11 | I mean I 've only just come out of hospital and as it is I 'm still fairly well Macked with it . |
| 12 | What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives |
| 13 | Yeah , so I mean I have n't really done that where , where did I ride to ? |
| 14 | I du n no I I mean I have never actually had a written reference from anybody when I 've left |
| 15 | I mean I do n't particularly like |
| 16 | Yeah but I mean I do n't clearly remember an agreement like that meself and does |
| 17 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
| 18 | So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know |
| 19 | I mean I did n't even have to look , you see , you |
| 20 | I mean I did n't even know how to do anything like that really |
| 21 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 22 | She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land . |
| 23 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 24 | I do n't know I had n't really thought about it . |
| 25 | what I do n't know I do n't even know what I 'm talking about |
| 26 | Er well yeah I do n't know I do n't really know whether he 'd er like me to be handing it out . |
| 27 | ‘ How do you know I have n't already eaten ? ’ she asked . |
| 28 | As I say I 've only just started |
| 29 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 30 | But if I write back and say I have n't actually had any wages since the seventeenth of January I might get it backdated from then . |