Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it . |
| 2 | And it was very easy for young erm young women erm who were either just on supplementary benefit or on unemployment , erm to get sucked into that way of living because I mean obviously they wanted nice clothes and things like that . |
| 3 | To work properly it requires flexible labour utilisation and harmonising of tacit skills , close managerial involvement … |
| 4 | All the commissions , and you only get paid I say only you get paid commission on the first year . |
| 5 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 6 | Well , one gran that lives alone we get five pound an for each birthday , we normally get five pound for a birthday and then she buys us a present for Christmas or a gift voucher . |
| 7 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 8 | certain cases you 've got ta say to Joe , well you mean that 's what the lady wants now you know those Ercoles I did ? |
| 9 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 10 | and you 'll you know it does it itself you just , you , with the computer you just say well I had four pounds and I spent a pound on that and two pound on this thirty pence on that and it goes pow does it by magic . |
| 11 | In returning here he came full circle , back to the room which had been his first glimpse of the Fifth Dominion . |
| 12 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 13 | And he goes , he lets her go and everything and he goes , and when they walk away he goes stupid bitch ! |
| 14 | When too many break away they jam each other and that is the cause of work hardening . ’ |
| 15 | When he came home we saw each other often . |
| 16 | Get a few nibbles sort of like couple of days before like er cos if Kim comes I 'll do like I did last year , just a little buffet tea . |
| 17 | But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football . |
| 18 | Or somebody would have said well we wanted brown bread , not white bread . |
| 19 | An and everything they be be architects or something , you 're gon na pick one who 's who who said well I did that building at London Airport or something like that . |
| 20 | The comedian Spike Milligan held forth about God , Diana gave a priceless diamond and pearl necklace to a friend to look after while she danced ; while the Queen was observed looking through the programme and saying in bemused tones : ‘ It says here they have live music ’ , as though it had just been invented . |
| 21 | Like I I see it done today I think that sort of thing , you used to stand in a corner . |
| 22 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |
| 23 | THE only civilian witness to the events surrounding the deaths of two teenage joyriders in Northern Ireland claimed yesterday he saw one soldier attack another . |
| 24 | As I was reviewing the material to be used here I had certain issues in my mind which concern the structure and meaning of the support given , based upon the ideas developed by anthropologists and sociologists who have studied kinship in Britain and elsewhere . |
| 25 | I was starving so I had pie and mash twice He had double pie and double mash twice . |
| 26 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 27 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 28 | Well , you know like she had that problem with her you know |
| 29 | During the seven months he spent there he wrote two songs , Non m'ama più and Lamento d'amore , which he had difficulty in publishing at the time , but which later became popular . |
| 30 | She gets moving , gets there she arrives fifteen minutes late . |