Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had one pair of trousers , and she could n't put them on again until they were dry . |
| 2 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
| 3 | Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man . |
| 4 | By this time , the College appreciated me rather more and there was a different bursar . |
| 5 | You know , they might just get up a little way and then some bureaucracy knocks them down again and they 're back where they started . |
| 6 | I brought them down here but there is n't anywhere to put them . |
| 7 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 8 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 9 | She did n't want him to stop kissing her , but curiosity made her murmur , ‘ Did you honestly believe that I would n't be angry with you for telling me so abruptly that you were Miguelito ? ’ |
| 10 | She loved me all right and I was her only son , but oh , what a struggle she had to show ii . |
| 11 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 12 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 13 | He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking . |
| 14 | In the sphere of education , the Act applies to direct and indirect discrimination ( defined at page 70 ) or victimisation ( treating someone less favourably because they are asserting their right not to be discriminated against ) by schools and LEAs in a variety of contexts . |
| 15 | Oh I I as far as we 're concerned er the when bit is if you were are available er now we could even put you on this Thursday . |
| 16 | It er I I mean I as far as I 'm concerned it 's er extremely difficult to get people to er come to social events . |
| 17 | I know that local playgroups find them useful , certainly for skittles and as cone and ball games , but I though maybe if they were filled with some sort of plaster and decorated , they would make good door stops . |
| 18 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |
| 19 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 20 | Merymose returned the scribe 's gaze , telling himself once again that there was no reason , surely , to distrust him . |
| 21 | There was no trace of his usual cheekiness , either because he was seriously worried about his son or simply because he had no need to defend himself up here where he was in his element and they were out of theirs . |
| 22 | He had levered himself up so that he was leaning on the boot of the sports car Scamp had tried to demolish with his shotgun . |
| 23 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 24 | its only half an hour so if its not any good in half an hour , its neither here nor there is it ? |
| 25 | Yes I know , but we 're not er we wo n't fiddle about with them until we get well on to the way because if we do that now we got ta take the welder up , you 've only got ta cut them off again because they 're in the way for the rest of the bloody coaches . |
| 26 | Yeah I mean I was n't expecting anything like er erm like him being a nice person to me ever again but it was fun |
| 27 | I lifted them early because I did n't want to leave them any longer because they were going to get damaged and they were , they were a wet potato when they came up and they 've cooked wet , so I think that the amount of rainfall you have has a lot to do with it . |
| 28 | If my children were ill Laura would send me home immediately and I was even allowed to smoke in their presence . ’ |
| 29 | I always felt that she cut me off just as we were becoming closer — and always when I most needed her . ’ |
| 30 | Time told me more immediately that it was five-thirty , the hour of return to the dining room , and I returned to find every single seat already taken , the passengers having learned fast . |