Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] [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 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 .
4 I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible .
5 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 .
6 There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit .
7 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 .
8 , aha , just basically I mean how do you find working and , you know rearing children , bringing up a family , and doing your housework , do you , how do you organize it , do you find that you get up early and do work in the morning , will you do a bit of work when you go home or , does your partner help out with the work ?
9 They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’
10 And we 're insisting that you stay here just as long as you like , ’ she told them .
11 If people can see that you know your job , that you work probably harder than they do , that you communicate with them and tell them what you 're doing , they will respect you .
12 You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes .
13 At some point the size of the enterprise may dictate that you think commercially rather than in terms of self-reliance .
14 I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say .
15 yeah , you get a subsidized grant for going to London , yeah , so you get like more than normal
16 Sometimes , though , we can be so afraid of what other people think that we shut up rather than speak up .
17 And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions .
18 ‘ I am determined that we build solidly rather than build fast . ’
19 She has insisted that we look as discerningly and sympathetically at their world as at the more spectacular street cultures of their brothers and more militant sisters , and recognize ( as the painting on the cover of the book does ) the complexity and subtlety of feminine strategies of survival .
20 We have someone always there for those who have er , society those who are poor er , women er , many of the issues that we feel very strongly and here , here She had no sort of cultural historic resonance with the nation of Wales but I 'm sure her and the way she approaches her whole ministry would mean that she 'd have a lot of than those of us here in the URC in Wales .
21 If we say we can not afford it , the reply is that we pay out more and more millions of pounds in unemployment benefit .
22 I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals .
23 They are conspicuous for their conciliatory terms : although they insist as firmly as ever on the prohibition of lay investiture , they make no mention of homage .
24 In the human female fetal ovary the maximum number of pachytenes occurs at about 26 weeks , although they appear as early as 14 weeks and continue to about 30 weeks of gestation .
25 It is further intended to change people 's attitudes so that they drive more smoothly and are aware of the kind of roads that they are using and drive at speeds tailored to fit the environment .
26 Even if , at first reading , you find them formidable , when you come to answer them you will be surprised that they become much easier than you had imagined .
27 On the other hand , where maggots are regularly fed into the water in swims which bream frequent , it very often happens that they take over completely and all other baits , including bread , are ignored almost entirely .
28 The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly .
29 They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules .
30 I was thinking for instance when you have generation of young men how do you , what 's the time left to something extreme can be done culturally and people can be sort of you know convinced that they 're right and that they go out there and get machine guns can be done culturally , whereas
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