Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had her full permission to tell him so , for reasons she had bitterly and eloquently specified . |
| 2 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 3 | After tea I went out and saw Ryan . |
| 4 | After supper I walked up and down in the corridor for a bit . |
| 5 | Time after time I ran away and my social worker could see that I was n't happy . |
| 6 | Between whiles she got up and looked out of the window , watching the pale sunshine come and go on the elaborate mouldings and cornices of the offices on the opposite side of Hand and Ball Court , until she realized she was being watched from a window of the floor above by two young men in shirtsleeves . |
| 7 | He shouted for the doors to be opened and of course they snapped open as usual . |
| 8 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 9 | You know , and I I , and of course He came back and he and he bought a ticket . |
| 10 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 11 | But of course he did n't and none of them could see what he felt like . |
| 12 | Of course she feels strongly that as 65 per cent of women in Britain are actually larger than size 14 , clothing manufacturers ignore them at their peril . |
| 13 | But of course it turns out that the blithe estivant was only planning what he doubtless terms a Weekend Break . |
| 14 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 15 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 16 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |
| 17 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the funboards people tend to classify their level by the type of board they sail rather than how well they sail it . |
| 19 | With his usual presence of mind he nipped back and picked up Sheldukher 's hard copy map of the planet . |
| 20 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 21 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
| 22 | This case is rather more difficult : the difficulty derives from the appearance of a unit in the superdiagonal of the spectral matrix of the given matrix A. For simplicity of exposition we assume here that A is of order 4 : extension to larger matrices is obvious . |
| 23 | Right , and a lot of help you get there when you go there ! |
| 24 | Kalmia augustifolia had spread rapidly , being left undisturbed to sucker , a method of propagation he considered better than by seed ; a Cephalanthus occidentalis , the largest he had seen , ‘ liked the situation well enough ’ and Itea virginica was ‘ in the greatest vigour ’ . |
| 25 | His interest in the precedents is exhausted , for this purpose at least , once he is satisfied that according to his conception of law they establish only that mothers at the scene have a right to recover , and this is clear immediately and with no reflection about larger underlying principles whose nature is a matter of dispute . |
| 26 | It 's just one , one of those many piec pieces of evidence you know so that the Freud you know like the great detective you know uses all these little insignificant facts and finally puts them all together and draws everybody together you know in the drawing room and says I will now reveal the murderer , you know Moses was not an Egyptian , sorry Moses was not a Jew he was an Egyptian . |
| 27 | The most essential thing , in a sense , is to give teachers enough information about this condition and the kind of difficulties it creates so that they can recognise it . |
| 28 | Keep a list of things you worry about and analyse it from time to time to see what your worrying changed . |
| 29 | The further they went into the forest the more it seemed as though the village behind , with Fat Watt and Diggory the King 's man and the priest , represented the enemy , and the miles and miles of trees she had formerly and still a little feared had become a sort of sanctuary , a hiding place . |
| 30 | Again , your postcode indicates the sort of area you live in and this information can also be used by companies to estimate your purchasing power . |