Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 2 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 3 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 4 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 5 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 6 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 7 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 9 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 10 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 11 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 12 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 13 | He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber . |
| 14 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 15 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |
| 16 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 17 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 18 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 19 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 21 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 22 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 23 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
| 24 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 25 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 26 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 27 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 28 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 29 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 30 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |