Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
2 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
3 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
4 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
5 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
6 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
9 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
10 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
11 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
12 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
13 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
14 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
15 | I disagree fundamentally with the hon. Gentleman . |
16 | I put up with the small pricking claws . |
17 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
18 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
19 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
20 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
21 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
22 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
23 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
24 | Meanwhile , my apologies for not being with you today and I look forward to a FANTASTIC reunion with you all at Crystal Palace in November . |
25 | I look forward to a comparable result for trust-status hospitals in Scotland . |
26 | I look forward to a positive and enthusiastic response from my right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General . |
27 | Well done , ‘ Mid-Hants ’ , and I look forward to an early return visit . |
28 | I look forward to the Prime Minister being present that day — but , of course , by then it will be a Labour Prime Minister . |
29 | Mr. Walker : I do not blame the Hon. Gentleman for making such a speech just before a by-election , but I am glad to tell him that tomorrow I shall go through every detail of the valleys programme and I look forward to the Labour party 's publishing beside each item what the Labour Government achieved in their last five years . |
30 | I look forward to the post-match analysis of the Leeds match . |