Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | Mothers shaved the heads of their daughters and then made them undress to take cold baths in public on the Hill of Calvary . |
| 3 | Not everyone has shared that view of course , two big questions have caused some to hesitate over Maastricht . |
| 4 | I think it an advantage to a student to have something to react against , but this has not led me to struggle to reach firm conclusions on every topic . |
| 5 | The cause of children 's bookselling can only be advanced by everyone involved making worthwhile sums of money which justify the resources allocated . |
| 6 | No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior . |
| 7 | I 'ad to pay three bob for a decent one . |
| 8 | I shall go for it mesen tomorrow , you see I 've got five pound in house which |
| 9 | But it 's sad really because I mean does all sorts of things with them which |
| 10 | That 's what I mean get some exercise in your legs . |
| 11 | I mean to take drastic action in this matter , I assure you . |
| 12 | By factual I mean to question those aspects of us which no longer involve philosophical and theological questions which occupied our ancestors . |
| 13 | ‘ I intend to represent this constituency in a non-partisan way , and will be at the call of everyone here no matter what their political persuasions . |
| 14 | In this article I intend to shed some light on the behaviour of a specific linguistic phenomenon , deixis , in a specific kind of discourse , the lyric poem . |
| 15 | As well as keeping to the forefront our themes of quality and cost , this means coming forward with ideas on how things can be improved and I intend to introduce new initiatives during the coming year to help us focus on this . |
| 16 | Quite early on " I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle " , he wrote later , " and regarded it as a question of time , place , and circumstance … " |
| 17 | Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components . |
| 18 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
| 19 | WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame . |
| 20 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
| 21 | I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ . |
| 22 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 23 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 24 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 25 | ‘ I got to know one girl at the local teacher training college , and now if she is n't available she puts me in touch with one of her friends . |
| 26 | I got to have some beef in that role . |
| 27 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 28 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 29 | Except I wo n't because I hate doing damn dishes in the morning . ’ |
| 30 | I tend to use each kilometre as a ‘ four minute trot ’ . |