Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever possible I try to get a Lecture Theatre , erm but I was told it was booked all day today we were originally in presentation room then came , so be grateful we 're in the Board Room . |
| 2 | For instance , at least once a week if possible I like to buy a Rail Ranger or similar train or bus ticket and travel the countryside and towns just looking at everything . |
| 3 | This is the wage rate in agriculture , right , now if we discount , sorry I 've made a cock-up of this , that 's erm , that 's not discounted , right , if we discounted , it 's going to look |
| 4 | Sorry I 've left a bit out |
| 5 | ‘ And on top of that I 've got a date with the company minibus at half-past nine tomorrow morning . |
| 6 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 7 | Also , before I did that I 'd made a hoax call saying that Boots ’ chemist was on fire . |
| 8 | I can show you hawthorn , beech , oak , ash , elderberry and sycamore ; after that I have to take a leaf home and look it up in a book . |
| 9 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 10 | I do n't grease them I just put this I 've got a pile of little circles of greaseproof paper ready cut to fit the |
| 11 | For this I decided to do a painting looking from my conservatory through the windows into the garden with two white chairs as the focal point . |
| 12 | To illustrate this I want to put a bar chart and a table from the spreadsheet in my word-processed document . |
| 13 | To avoid this I propose to place a layer of mortar on the lining and lay bricks on top which will be covered by slabs . |
| 14 | For some reason or another I 've found a pizza that does n't affect his skin |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got a confession to make , ’ said Eddy Russell finally , taking a swig from his pint of bitter and wiping the foam from his upper lip . |
| 16 | Dougal you have made a smell you are a naughty boy |
| 17 | After this she managed to get a job in the National Health Service , where the majority of speech therapists are employed . |
| 18 | I do n't believe this she 's got a dog |
| 19 | So somebody 's got to say , is this you 've got a problem . |
| 20 | The exercises taught me that when things go wrong you need to take a step back and think things through before acting . ’ |
| 21 | Quite unfairly , it was the few who did cause a hiccup in the smooth turnover of the lettings that I remember best . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid she 's had an accident , ’ he went on . |
| 23 | I 'm sure you 've also experienced sessions you thought something somebody 's delivered in one session and found it really interesting you 've got a lot from it , and yet somebody else comes into the same subject matter and you think that you know was n't very interesting did n't , you know , did n't , I did n't really wanting to learn . |
| 24 | ‘ According to this we 've to keep an eye out for anything — or anybody — suspicious . |
| 25 | Before we do this we have to apply a mapping function M. The mapping function is important because as I say these wires are connected to these pixels here . |
| 26 | To explain this we need to use a rule based on syllable-structure , as was done for simple words in the previous chapter . |
| 27 | Woods are rare in Orkney , and this one had proved an attraction . |
| 28 | I , this one 's gone a bit strange , look at that , how you doing now , Kevin ? |
| 29 | Well this one 's got a hook on it . |
| 30 | It is clear we do have a problem here in Wales . |