Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 2 | Do you know I actually listened to some of this tape and I do n't half sound different on the taped , the real me |
| 3 | like you say you just get onto that right and it 's , that 's three hundred yards and you get the next one that 's two hundred yards and a hundred yards until you stop , to the junction |
| 4 | Talking during the week with a veteran of the ANC — a man who has opposed Smith publicly and privately for years — I was surprised to hear him say , ‘ Whether the PM was right or wrong , we must assist him now to look into this idea of a change of heart . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Has it ever hungered like this for the caress of any other lover ? ’ |
| 6 | As Tyndale described himself in a letter to his disciple Frith , ‘ God hath made me ill favoured in this world , and without grace in the sight of men , speechless and rude , dull and ill witted . ’ |
| 7 | willi , willing and a a kindly nature but we if it 's in the middle of a game you know , and er , you know how you are when you 're playing a game well they 'd fetch me away to run for some cheese for an old lady . |
| 8 | At one point on the next night Jordi drew me into the shadows and to my astonishment produced a vicious-looking switch-blade knife , warning me never to look at another man in his presence . |
| 9 | O K so look let me just go through these notices er for today 's tutorial period , one or two changes erm again a thought for the week from the chaplain to begin with , during the approaching season of Lent , the best thing we can do is to centre our thoughts on what Jesus Christ did for us through his passion , death and resurrection . |
| 10 | Hold on let me just put on these thingies . |
| 11 | Now let me just work through this with you so as er wh you know it 's unfortunate there 's such a lot in these things that er |
| 12 | Probably the same dislike of children led her to desert me immediately after my birth , and also caused her only to return on that one , fateful occasion when she was at least partly responsible for my little accident . |
| 13 | We must come back with haste , but as we travel let us also reflect on some of the things we see : looking with the eyes of discernment for the hand of the Enemy on the controls of the engine of progress . |
| 14 | Let us finally return to that letter written to Peter Tatchell in 1983 . |
| 15 | Let us now look at each of these kinds of books in turn and see what we can about how they are written . |
| 16 | Let us now turn to this very different approach . |
| 17 | Let us now turn to another example of how mathematics , through the breadth of its applications , allows us to attack more than one problem with a single weapon . |
| 18 | Let us now turn to these RHA Conditions in some detail . |
| 19 | Let us therefore look at these four stages in an export plan and see how the Trade Finance Division of your bank could help . |
| 20 | Space allows us only to look at some of the most significant of these developments here . |
| 21 | but I do n't think you actually mentioned at any time you know the , the wife 's involvement in it other than that point . |
| 22 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 23 | The symptoms of psychosis as we know them today appear in all literatures from the earliest times . |
| 24 | You know I sometimes find with some of my students it is very counterproductive to have their mother in on the lessons . |
| 25 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |
| 26 | She narrowed her eyes and added in clipped tones , ‘ I know you always thought of this as your home and that you never wanted me to be a part of it . |
| 27 | We d Okay we do n't know , we want to ask them we w So if you are an MP in North Yorkshire and er you think I 'm giving you a hard time and I know you sneakily listen to this programme , I know you listen . |
| 28 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 29 | ‘ Our objective is to make certain you know we strongly object to this development . |
| 30 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |