Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like yeah , because like about what he did you know he was staying up with and all this and like giving him money and looking after Andrew so he goes for my parents Jimmy 's really nice . |
| 2 | So now you can stay fresh and still allow your skin to breathe . |
| 3 | Other parents use humour and may even deliberately say the opposite of what is required in the knowledge that the child will then do the reverse of the request : ‘ I really do n't think you should eat that last spoonful ’ will challenge children to prove their parents wrong and consequently finish their meal . |
| 4 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 5 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 6 | Flt Lt Marshall was extremely embarrassed and always avoided my eye whenever he came into the Met Office after that . |
| 7 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 8 | The 26-year-old England international was content to track Sunderland Harrier Malcolm Price for most of the race , kicking away with 1,400 metres remaining and gradually extending his lead to win by 70 metres . |
| 9 | Swail defeated Tony Drago 5-3 and then expressed his amazement at being left out of the B&H Irish Masters at Goffs next month . |
| 10 | Sometimes it was Ruth 's job to look after them both , though not often , since Edward had his own governess , Miss Fitch , who was omnipresent and jealously guarded her position . |
| 11 | It is starkly simple and exactly states its purpose demonstrating that even the most primitive of beliefs and traditional practices are valid materials on which to build not only the style but the dramatic content of a ballet . |
| 12 | Matallana , who emphasized that he was not a communist and had no regrets for his past anti-guerrilla role , stated that the M-19 had proved itself to be politically honest and now shared his belief that Colombia could only achieve change via the polls . |
| 13 | ‘ His sisters spoil him rotten and so does his mother — but I do n't , ’ says Harry . |
| 14 | ‘ It often happens that one who at first was listening gladly becomes exhausted and now opens his mouth no longer to give assent but to yawn , and even involuntarily gives signs that he wants to depart . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe the French told her to act pregnant and so lengthen her stay in Scotland ! ’ |
| 16 | But Spartak proved to be much better than I and , no doubt , Liverpool , imagined and deservedly earned their passage after being the more accomplished side over both legs . |
| 17 | She has not cut herself off from her parents , however , as this is something which would only have led her to feel guilty and therefore decreased her confidence even further . |
| 18 | In fact this banal verse , which forms a part of the novel At Swim-Two-Birds , is a satire on the cult of imbecile proletarian writers that began in the thirties and later reached its apotheosis under Joan Littlewood . |
| 19 | Er of Thatcherism , er t to flirt with elements of that and completely destroy our credibility with a lot of people whose votes we wanted . |
| 20 | They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect . |
| 21 | ‘ The River Rat ! ’ he boomed , laughing heartily at his own joke , ‘ never takes his hat off because he 's BALD and never puts his boat in the river because he CA N'T SAIL ! ’ |
| 22 | For a moment there was nothing to do but let the shabby old SE haul him up the last stretch , so Lambert actually relaxed and momentarily enjoyed his peace . |
| 23 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 24 | Crowe sub-contracted half his sales to Browne in 1626 and finally resigned his patent in 1635 . |
| 25 | Although it is black and white and often carries its tail cocked up , the Seychelles magpie robin is , of course , neither a magpie nor a robin . |
| 26 | In contrast the United Kingdom and what was West Germany saw a small increase in the 1970s and then stabilised their share through the 1980s . |
| 27 | The patient beamed and proudly touched his bandage . |
| 28 | Firm A has a balancing allowance in year 3 of 26.25 and so has its corporation tax reduced by 9.19 ( i.e. 26.25 × 35% ) in that year but ends up with a balancing charge of 23.75 in year 4 and so has an additional tax liability of 8.31 ( i.e. 23.75 × 35% ) in year 4 . |
| 29 | The men were sullen and never met his eye ; but someone had to organise them , and no-one cared to oppose him . |
| 30 | Mercurial striker Ian Wright joined The Eagles from Greenwich Borough in 1 985 and quickly made his mark with us as a highly effective ‘ super-sub ’ in his first season , scoring nine times to finish as Palace 's second-highest scorer with Phil Barber . |