Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me make a very quick phone call and come back to you . ’ |
| 2 | This is also the time for everyone to enjoy an extra special dinner . |
| 3 | We have witnessed the massive growth in unemployment , a huge increase in the number of part-time and home workers , many of them accepting a grotesquely low rate of pay . |
| 4 | One youngster told him : ‘ Everyone has a really good time . |
| 5 | I became a very good eyeballer , and I could read any line on any green . |
| 6 | I became a gloomily devoted mother . |
| 7 | That I became a more understanding teacher was very much due to Basil and the tradition which he had established . |
| 8 | To keep my distance from everybody , always being a polite child , I became an unusually polite teenager . |
| 9 | ’ Could I make a very special request ? ’ asks Kiefer Sutherland in a fragile , full-of-flu drawl . |
| 10 | Bob , is a local person , in fact he lives in the village of Girton here , and to , to , to my knowledge takes a keen interest in local news and in local local affairs , since he 's been editor of the Evening News I , I , I perceive a more lively style creeping into the paper . |
| 11 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 12 | So one time I made a very sad mistake , Somebody pushed the bell , and I opened it and I said , I 'll have two bitters . |
| 13 | I made a very careful search in the area where this find was made but the site yielded no more gold coins . |
| 14 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
| 15 | No certainly not it 's not I mean a little old lady yes the lace has something to do with Nottingham Nottingham 's heritage we all know that . |
| 16 | Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned , and enjoyed it to the full . |
| 17 | I like experimenting and if I led a less erratic lifestyle I would do more of it . |
| 18 | ‘ You wait till I tear a very ugly strip off the old girl . |
| 19 | Soon after arriving in Pakistan , I met a very wise woman . |
| 20 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 21 | Ten yards from this , and on the same side of the pond , I recovered an almost identical coin weight . |
| 22 | I make a very nice nettle tea , you know . |
| 23 | I make a much different statement in all my work — you can never compare us . |
| 24 | I make a more general criticism . |
| 25 | He fails to make it , for I make an equally massive surge with the rod in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | Later , after work , I got a pretty good look at these new pants of ours , as Tod stood before the full-length mirror unknotting the plump Windsor of his tie . |
| 27 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 28 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 29 | I must admit I got a less amiable response from another Prime Minister , Ted Heath . |
| 30 | I got a very good deal on the buoyancy aid . |