Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 2 | You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children |
| 3 | I personally know of a foreign company planning to establish a factory and recruit a thousand staff in Britain . |
| 4 | I feel far mo , less sympathy and far less identification with her than I perhaps do with a male worker who has to cope with the same kind of exploitation that I do , day in , day out . |
| 5 | She may be joking , but me , I just growl in a choked voice ‘ Hey , why do n't you cut us some of that cake ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I always go into a massive depression in November . |
| 7 | I look good in this , your standard little black number , and I still get into a tight pair of jeans … |
| 8 | As you know , comrade , I usually cater to a civilian clientele . ’ |
| 9 | I now live in a new house which has as much character as either of my previous homes — but without the rising damp and woodworm . |
| 10 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 11 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 12 | It is one I often serve before a simple meat dish , beef , lamb or veal , which is probably already cooking in the oven before the vegetable dish goes in . |
| 13 | One is that I often stay at a first-class hotel to merge into the background . |
| 14 | The Commission considered that there was not only one beverage packaging market comprising glass , plastic and cans , but that packaging products may belong to separate markets which only compete to a limited extent . |
| 15 | Some women have minor side-effects which normally pass in a few months . |
| 16 | For the evidence set out above suggests that the heads of the central figures , which still relate to a certain extent to the work of 1906 and which were almost certainly the first to be painted , were not executed until the Iberian stone heads came into Picasso 's possession in March 1907 . |
| 17 | DIRECTOR PAUL Verhoeven 's recurring nightmare starts as a hollow whisper : a child chorus of quiet , muffled cries which gradually build into a hideous concert of screams , induced by some blinding fireball of heat and light . |
| 18 | Even if you only work for a few hours a week , take out professional indemnity insurance . |
| 19 | ‘ And you still worry about a foolish dream , when I 'm close to you ? |
| 20 | Your cause will grab more power as time passes , boosted by the media , who always go for a new slant on the sex thing . |
| 21 | The senior nurse now acts as a support , resource and coordinator and a flattened hierarchy results : the senior nurse is the key to the professional development of staff who often come from a traditional nursing culture , where they have had little accountability . |
| 22 | You simply slot in a preprogrammed ‘ memory card ’ and select the design you want . |
| 23 | It was a curious ménage : the girl , the uncle , the grandmother — a solitary representative of each generation , like one of those squeezed houses you sometimes see with a single room on each storey . |
| 24 | In a further move , Mr Lamont said legislation will be introduced to allow tax relief for employers who voluntarily contribute towards a charitable agency 's costs in running the payroll-giving scheme . |
| 25 | Wi with with with all due respect you know we we we 're talking about the precision of the word and when you actually come to a ten point scale there will be some imprecision anyway in the is it a six ? |
| 26 | ‘ You certainly live in a splendid spot , ’ Leith struggled up out of being conscience-stricken to remark . |
| 27 | According to classical criminology we mostly behave in a rational manner . |
| 28 | In principle , no , we only act in a consultative and advisory way . |
| 29 | In talking about a subject we generally refer to a given area of knowledge or to the contents of an information source of a given scope . |
| 30 | ‘ We already operate in a competitive market and Lloyd 's is unlikely to make that much more difficult . ’ |