Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long have you been doing this and where do you go afterwards ? ’ |
| 2 | Well then when they start looking about a bit more , that is when it costs you because anything that Les has to get involved in , cos they go back to Les and say well why did he do this and why did you do that ? |
| 3 | I 'd taught many similarly wealthy girls during my lecturer days , so fortunately I did n't feel uneasy about this and just let her carry on . |
| 4 | And then my father became a very keen gardener and asking Thomas , How do you do th this and how do you do that ? |
| 5 | Though ill , old and partially blind he went , having been offered a ‘ litter ’ by the Duke of Tuscany , though Venice had offered sanctuary . |
| 6 | I mean you 've just got to be careful and not lose it have n't you ? |
| 7 | It is probably easier to add on extra hours than to take on too much and then find you have to reduce your hours because of outside commitments or for other less foreseeable reasons . |
| 8 | I find that autumn-sown oats or rye ripen early and often allow me to squeeze in a catch crop of oats or rye after the main harvest to be grazed in the late autumn and spring before ploughing for roots . |
| 9 | pure , pure and simply to let him get a sleep . |
| 10 | Thirteenth or fourteenth you 're right and when does he arrive ? |
| 11 | He was aware of making an effort to pass this question off as casually as possible and thereby knew he had failed . |
| 12 | Even though mammals lavish such care and attention on their young , they still have the same two options open to insects and fish , crabs and reptiles — whether to concentrate their energies on producing as many young as possible and then let them fend for themselves , or whether to restrict the numbers to very few but look after them carefully . |
| 13 | Wednesday could tell Endill was upset and eventually persuaded him to explain why . |
| 14 | ‘ Little Eddie ( Eddie Carr , the manager ) got pretty upset and just told me to sod off . |
| 15 | It was as if their covenant was both to keep the problem alive and yet to ensure they did nothing about it . |
| 16 | Forty seven , forty eight , forty nine , fifty , fifty one , fifty two , fifty three , fifty four , fifty five , fifty six , fifty seven , fifty eight and when did you get married again ? |
| 17 | He wondered what on earth had made him talk like that and why had he told McEllhoney of all people ? |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 19 | Just looks like just looks like toffee and they just roll it like that and then do it like that . |
| 20 | If the bill is to be calculated on a daily rate and someone 's auntie comes to stay for a couple of months in the middle of the year , what about all the complications in adjusting for that and how do we account for the period for which someone has lost the discount ? |
| 21 | It seems that their food intake is reduced because of this preference for staying warm and dry and neither do they travel so far for their food . |
| 22 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 23 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 24 | To avoid a heavy multiload , the tape version omits these and only allows you to access the options screen once . |
| 25 | If this also makes mathematics classrooms places where girls feel more comfortable and therefore encourages them to stay with mathematics longer , that is all to the good . |
| 26 | six pairs of opposites and then expanded by Okay now that that 's fine but how do you move on and where do you move on to in order to get that structured thought pattern ? |
| 27 | Either was possible but why did he disbelieve her ? |
| 28 | ‘ Many people who get divorced do n't find anything better and really wish they had n't … |
| 29 | Dangerous driving cos he made the old woman give over and overtook somewhere totally stupid and probably find he had no brake . |
| 30 | The Treasury were very , very skilled chaps in more or less stopping you doing anything . |