Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 'd go down bett or I mean even like when we did the pantomimes , you remember Cinderella we did ? |
| 2 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 3 | A fairly rushed programme but involved in going to Stranraer Women 's Guild where she communicated extremely well and was delighted to see Christian Aid work at local level . |
| 4 | They returned down a different hole and soon found a dry , empty burrow , where they curled up together and slept in the warmth of their own tired bodies . |
| 5 | Loki was caught and punished by ODIN several times , once being imprisoned beneath the earth 's surface where he shook so violently that the world trembled . |
| 6 | Yet he had a way of manipulating our conversations on to ground of his choosing where he spoke so admirably that only afterwards did one realize how other issues , other questions , had been delicately side-stepped . |
| 7 | They were about 10 yards from the western side of the reef , where it fell away sharply and waves were pounding on its shore . |
| 8 | Lima , where it rains so seldom that the city 's roofs are not designed to withstand more than a mild shower , the inhabitants are anxiously awaiting the worst . |
| 9 | See that no-one gets any further than the hall . |
| 10 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |
| 11 | I finished equal fifth and , although I got as far as the final qualifying round for the Open and won through two rounds of the Amateur Championship , that was to be my best result for the year . |
| 12 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 13 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 14 | not that I perceived any longer if the had n't gone . |
| 15 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 16 | He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy . |
| 17 | I suspect , then , that I paused rather abruptly and looked a little awkward . |
| 18 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 19 | Ted might decide he does n't like me any more , that I laugh too loudly or drink too much of his beer , and then we 'd have to get a tent . |
| 20 | It turns out that fragments of each of my three files are dotted around , interleaved with each other and with fragments of old , dead files that I erased long ago and had forgotten . |
| 21 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |
| 22 | I was wanted so I ran away again and came down to London . |
| 23 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Tommy Webber who lives next door works in the bar at The Packet so I went along there and sat in the bar until closing time then Tommy gave me a lift home on the back of his bike . ’ |
| 25 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 26 | ‘ So I got back home and took five songs a day and learned them . |
| 27 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 28 | ‘ My guess — it 's no more than that — is that somebody came around earlier and told Mrs Tanner that there 'd be a couple of hundred quid in it for her if you showed up . |
| 29 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 30 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |