Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading these two books is a serious and problematic business , and if you 're looking for a bit of post-modern frivolity then you 'd best slip something else into your holiday holdall — Sebastian Faulk 's new novel . |
| 2 | Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the said John Weston Foakes paying to the said Julia Beer on the signing of this agreement the sum of £500 , the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge in part satisfaction of the said judgment debt of £2,090 19s. , and on condition of his paying her or her executors , administrators , assigns or nominee the sum of £150 on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of January or within one calendar month after each of the said days respectively in every year until the whole of the said sum of £2,090 19s. shall have been fully paid and satisfied , the first of such payments to be made on the 1st day of July next , then she the said Julia Beer hereby undertakes and agrees that she , her executors , administrators or assigns , will not take any proceedings whatever on the said judgment . |
| 3 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |
| 4 | There 'll be a fucking explosion one of these days when you do finally Do It . |
| 5 | Philippe was quite correct , I had n't taken my pills and it was one of the days when I did rather need them . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We want local councils to use their muscle to negotiate with developers to ensure wind power stations are only permitted in places where they do least harm to beautiful landscapes and rural communities ’ , said CPRW 's Director , Dr Neil Caldwell . |
| 7 | ‘ This is not addressed by hitting people hardest who need most help , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In at least one such area where it did eventually intrude , the original ‘ rotten apple ’ is believed to have been a government agent . |
| 9 | No , we 'll have to have a look tomorrow they 'd better hurry up and eat though had n't they ? |
| 10 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 11 | Now I imagine yo you come from all different parts of the county so I 'd better tell you where they are . |
| 12 | Ok , so you 've had a great Christmas , but if your New Year 's resolution is to get back into shape then you 'd better check out Kathy Smith 's new Workout videos . |
| 13 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 14 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |