Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's two thirty or we go now or we go in about an hour but we ca n't go later I should think , can we ? |
| 2 | The widow told me that she went out twice a day — once very early for shopping and once for a walk towards evening — but never where the passeggiata took place . |
| 3 | I am sure that she follows up precisely the kind of matter to which my hon. and loyal Friend has referred , but I shall make certain that that is so , and write to my hon. Friend . |
| 4 | The rain had nearly stopped , so she hurried back up the Gloucester Road for her bus . |
| 5 | Although we go out quite a lot , we just go for walks . |
| 6 | I was born in Buckinghamshire , my father was a farm worker , so we moved round quite a bit . |
| 7 | Nor should they be put off by roads which have signposts that are positively misleading , or which some naughty boys have turned round so that they point in totally the wrong direction . |
| 8 | As he pulled away , the leaves on the trees shuddered and the rain began to fall so hard that it jumped back off the tarmac , turned to mist . |
| 9 | He was pleased that he and his wife had been able to talk to the doctor but he was still not sure that he understood about either the X-rays of his bowel or the surgery which might be necessary . |
| 10 | Once it 's in the blood , alcohol is quickly distributed throughout all the water in the body so it appears in almost every organ and tissue , including blood . |
| 11 | ‘ A suspension controller malfunctioned and once that was fixed and I got out again the car caught fire when an oil cooler failed . |
| 12 | and I took up quite a few , thinned them out and my sister |
| 13 | But he countered : ‘ The supporter was saying terrible things to me and I went back up the tunnel because I wanted to have a good look at the face of the person who was abusing me . |
| 14 | You know we have a considerable holding of er , land immediately adjacent to the reasonable shopping centre there and erm , if and when things become buoyant again and I went down there a couple of weeks and I was rather impressed by , by the look of the area , then clearly land prices go up and we have the capacity to , to generate more profit . |
| 15 | Stuart and I went out together a few times . |
| 16 | I went to this party at Mr Midwinter 's and it 's a wonderful house with footmen and things , and I went in just the sort of clothes I 'd wear for a party here in Helsinki . |
| 17 | Let's If I write down Okay the which I 've just suddenly thought of were er |
| 18 | I felt that if I looked back early the mud pool would blush and say ‘ pardon ’ . |
| 19 | She lives with her mam and dad , a cleaner and welder respectively , and does a bit of housework , though her mam still does the cooking , and she goes out once a week . |
| 20 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
| 21 | Not what one expected of the wife of the senior partner , Tim observed , thinking smugly of his own immaculately turned-out Patrice , who would refuse to eat if she put on even an extra pound and who would as soon leave the house naked as without make-up . |
| 22 | George said that if she put in more the whole lot would be gone before the curtain rose on Act Two . |
| 23 | Tukuse the only one where you move the choker or if you speak up just a little bit . |
| 24 | Everyone likes fun and pretty things , but — having too many frocks must be almost as bad as having too few , and if you go out somewhere every day , and razzle every night , you would get stale . |
| 25 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 26 | If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally . |
| 27 | And we agreed to do that , and we put out quite a lot of publicity . |
| 28 | Fly ran the Hackney branch of a chainstore opticians and we went back quite a long way together as OADFs go . |
| 29 | This seemed a suitable area on which to work , and we proceeded in precisely the same way as before , with Sylvia imagining the situation under hypnosis and then going off to do her homework for however long was necessary . |
| 30 | ‘ Pitches were uncovered than and we played on quite a few tracks that were damp , ’ Tribe says . |