Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for !
2 Shops in town do n't want to know when you ask for a toilet .
3 Made even you sound like a board-school lad at the pit-face .
4 I manage to calm my nerves by remembering how I feel before a World Championship run with twisting somersaults and double axels ahead of me .
5 Used properly they act as a contraceptive and can protect you from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases .
6 Used properly they act as a contraceptive and can protect you from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases .
7 Because they are made of protein they are rapidly inactivated at temperatures over 50°C and certainly boiling would render any you put in a carp bait totally inactive .
8 How would you feel if er a if I said sort of describe how you feel on a scale of one to ten ?
9 So I 'm gon na see how I get on an if I keep doing it I 'm just gon na get it as overtime .
10 But he 's just a bit irritating cos he well you know I do , I do n't understand how you go through a whole relationship and everything , and then come to end of it and not even feel the slightest bit
11 But I really do n't mind when I think with a grin
12 when I used to go up you know for a pint of snowball he say pint of snowball , some of the , what they call 'em
13 You know when you go on a swing when you 're a child — one of those municipal swings .
14 been running for about half an hour or so , you know when you come to a junction flicking on and off .
15 So you know when you get in a meeting sometimes you 've got a point of view on an agenda item and you think how where am I gon na get support for for my point of view on the meeting ?
16 I swear they 're so loud it 's like it 's like you know when you kick through a big pile
17 The season could have really slipped away I think with a defeat today , but erm still keeps the season a little bit bright .
18 In general terms , developmentalists take the view that it should be possible to examine the ways in which infants and young children interact with the physical world and with other people and to determine how they change as a result .
19 First of all it 's a against the law but after that these youngsters quite often do n't know what they 're doing when they get into a car and they are lethal
20 Presumably , this is what moths are doing when they fly into a candle and are burnt to death .
21 He asks in one of his papers , ‘ The Place Where We Live ’ : ‘ What are we doing when we listen to a Beethoven symphony or when a child is playing ? ’
22 Well that 's exactly what you 're doing when you sleep on a Sherpa Underblanket made from pure New Zealand Long Tufted lambswool .
23 ‘ If things go well I hope within a twelve-month to double the number of horses I own . ’
24 Families are usually unable to describe how they function to an outsider and so questions that enquire about this directly are likely to be unhelpful .
25 ‘ I thought maybe I go to a party , ’ he explains , ‘ so I bring bottle from aeroplane .
26 Some key characteristics of library materials are now considered , to see how they bear upon a selection decision .
27 Nor do all who participate in a joint enterprise agree to its occurrence .
28 It measures and quantifies how they act within a particular pattern of living .
29 I wonder how I look in a sarong ?
30 Some recent work , however , particularly in attempting to historicise the insights of Freud , and to demonstrate the specificity of his categories ( that is , showing how they refer to a particular cultural milieu ) has opened up new possibilities .
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