Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [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 | Not everyone has shared that view of course , two big questions have caused some to hesitate over Maastricht . |
| 3 | No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior . |
| 4 | I shall go for it mesen tomorrow , you see I 've got five pound in house which |
| 5 | That 's what I mean get some exercise in your legs . |
| 6 | I mean to take drastic action in this matter , I assure you . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … " |
| 10 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
| 11 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | I got to have some beef in that role . |
| 16 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 17 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 18 | I tend to use each kilometre as a ‘ four minute trot ’ . |
| 19 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 20 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 21 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 22 | ‘ At the World Cup final in Gothenburg , for example , I tried to treat each day as a normal day , doing my best in the individual classes and not worrying about the final result . |
| 23 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 25 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 26 | I expect to hear this morning from Yuli Voronpsov , the country 's deputy prime minister , that private contractors are moving into the Kremlin Hospital in Moscow . |
| 27 | If someone wants to pay 3.0 mil for Deane god help them — are then any quoted values on Rush and Ferd — both players we have recently been linked with . |
| 28 | While the fax machine is easy to use , it 's less attractive when it comes to mass faxing , as someone has to feed each document in and dial the destination . |
| 29 | If this message is output again it shows that someone has had direct access to the ORACLE database . |
| 30 | ‘ What happened to Poll ? ’ she asked , determined not to be silenced by Dr Neil Cochrane , and not to allow the ruin of his looks to create any pity for him . |