Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , and erm , I do n't know that I ever did this , but I never heard anybody heard anybody walking the street , whistling the National Anthem . |
| 2 | The voiders lingered by the body , however , bright enough to know that they still had some duty to perform with it . |
| 3 | He 's on reserves and they say that we already have more than our quota per pupil than most other places . ’ |
| 4 | size I do n't why I do n't know if we still do those . |
| 5 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ — Boy was not sure if he was yet allowed to address her by her name , did n't know if he yet had that right . |
| 6 | In many ways one could argue that there was nothing new in the FMI ; it was simply that many of these changes were almost two decades late in being recommended since they closely resemble many of the proposals contained in the Fulton Committee Report of 1968 ( Cmnd. 3638 ) . |
| 7 | Though the effect is purely symbolic , even poetic , as well as chilling , much of its force depends on rapidly cutting away to Marion 's car being pulled out of the lake — a banal , everyday detail of the investigation that almost makes us doubt whether we really saw that skull , previously forced on the viewer with horrifying shock impact in the cellar scene . |
| 8 | No one would call our battered brown book boxes decorative but when the PLANTS appear as they always do that morning of the year , their beauty and colour irradiate all around them . |
| 9 | On learning that Rose 's mother had acted with Edmund Kean , his resistance to her dissolves as he creakily re-enacts some of Kean 's great moments . |
| 10 | ‘ There 'll be a bit off for luck ? ’ he asked , proving that he still retained some of the guile he had picked up as a practising country lawyer . |
| 11 | Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening , apart from a little gold eyeshadow , blusher and lipstick . |
| 12 | Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows . |
| 13 | Vanity and a nod towards Alan Meale compel that we also include this : A short-sighted scribbler called Amos ; Recorded the gaffes of the famous ; And if ever his column ; Becomes faintly solemn ; He 'll be sacked on the spot ( who would blame us ) ? |
| 14 | Having seen the decline in public services over the past decade , I hope that he never has that opportunity . |
| 15 | The leggy actress has revealed that she now shreds all the rubbish at her Malibu home before putting it out for the dust-men . |
| 16 | It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy . |
| 17 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 18 | The second , smaller , chest has clearly been ransacked but it still has some items inside . |
| 19 | ‘ Because Vechey was probably dead , strangled before he ever reached that bridge , and what else could the murderer do with the corpse ? |
| 20 | She lives in a large , sunny and specially adapted local authority bungalow in Northampton : the walls of the living room are decorated with her paintings ( done when she still had some use of her right hand ) and her kitchen cupboard is covered with postcards , love letters from old boyfriends and local newspaper articles . |
| 21 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 22 | Who cared if he never rose any higher than H.S.O. ? |
| 23 | I mean if they ever do that to me I 'm just gon na fucking drive off . |
| 24 | On 30 June 1921 these elements coalesced and he suddenly saw that familiar landscape with new eyes . |
| 25 | His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't remember that I ever saw that page . ’ |
| 27 | On deciding that we definitely had all our food supplies , warm clothes , and most importantly , all the parts of our tent , we set off . |
| 28 | Would you mind if you never made another movie again ? |
| 29 | So you must remember if you ever put any lettering on when you 're printing that you must write it backwards . |
| 30 | Now I do nt believe everything I read and I only believe half of what I see , but if these words have been uttered by the ‘ poor mans Billy Bremner ’ , then even I think it 's a bit rich ! |