Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish Kelvin was here ah ah ah Oh I hope the tape recorder can pick this up , because , erm The wind keeps coming at me I do n't even though why I 've come sho oh yeah , I wan na buy something , do n't I ? so what I say now to people , when they say something to me , I go I go and I say no actually I 'm not but never mind . |
| 2 | ‘ But somebody who cares as much as you do , you 'd want to know . ’ |
| 3 | But just to consider one or two aspects which we mentioned earlier on as being important to us . |
| 4 | One of those tricks is simply to take a lip-hold of the maggots without the hook being inside their mouths , which they do quite easily when the hook is a substantial one . |
| 5 | To help her , she is allowed to ask three people to turn round , which they do as far as possible without revealing whether or not they have the ball . |
| 6 | In the seventeenth century Herbert saw this kind of understanding as a form of prayer which he describes not only as " God 's breath in man returning to his birth " but as an illumination in terms which Rolle and Hilton would have recognised : Church bels beyond the starres heard , the soul 's bloud , The land of spices ; something understood . |
| 7 | When he got out , he had the feeling he was n't wanted and that as an infant he was a problem to his family — a feeling which he expressed publicly long before he became aware that his sister was really his mother . |
| 8 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 9 | Another influence was The Girls ' Own Paper , which he liked much better than the Boys ' Own version . |
| 10 | ‘ Our witness ’ he said , ‘ is to be for goodness ’ , which he defined not only as being ‘ honest , temperate , chaste ’ and leading an ‘ upright , decent , useful life ’ , but as the spirit or motivation behind all this . |
| 11 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |
| 12 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 13 | Laura 's lips curved into a warm smile at the thought of her cousin , the girl with whom she 'd grown up , and whom she loved as dearly as a sister . |
| 14 | " After we ran away from you we travelled as far as Quang Nam — that 's where we met the French recruiter who arrived here tonight with your truck , " said Dong hesitantly . |
| 15 | But mind you they went quicker then because they were hard to get . |
| 16 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 17 | Both prominence and deviance have a negative , as well as a positive side : a feature which occurs more rarely than usual is just as much a part of the statistical pattern as one which occurs more often than usual ; and it may also be a significant aspect of our sense of style . |
| 18 | One you trust more easily than you find you can trust me ? ’ |
| 19 | Right ah can we connect again with a couple of people we we coming up there if anybody out there er is a fan of Mary Whitehouse 's as I am give me a call and you know you know who I 'm talking to ring now . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 21 | Between them they earn slightly more than £14,000 . |
| 22 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 23 | This is a bit difficult , I think , to follow , and what Proust means perhaps becomes clearer in a story which he himself told on more than one occasion about the painter Turner . |
| 24 | It makes sense in what I said earlier about if you can identify numbers that are very seldom chosen , because when those numbers do come up then you 're one of a small minority of winners and therefore your stake is larger . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 26 | She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it . |
| 27 | I sha n't be here , so you can ask him what you like as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 28 | Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 30 | What we went out there for I haven t the slightest idea . |