Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only realised he was any good when he was 13 and went down to the English schools Under-14 championships at Queens one Monday . |
| 2 | There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation . |
| 3 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 4 | The company behind the scam , Mandela , are refusing to fill in any more details , however , so we can only assume it 's another cash-in wind up . |
| 5 | This does n't necessarily mean they were practising infanticide , although some of them may have been . |
| 6 | You could have you could have open land within within a village , it does n't necessarily mean it 's open countryside . |
| 7 | ‘ We get a lot of day trippers motoring around the Downs and they see the signs for Brands Hatch and they automatically put their foot down thinking they 're bleedin' Formula One drivers . ’ |
| 8 | She did n't want to swim this afternoon , but only said it was slight indigestion . ’ |
| 9 | She only wished she was any good at the game herself , which unfortunately she was n't . |
| 10 | Everyone 's attention was fixed on him and he would obviously strengthen HE 's Executive Council if he could be persuaded to join . |
| 11 | Whether the public will want to keep on swallowing it is another matter . |
| 12 | Why do you go on believing he 's some sort of great big nome in the sky ? ’ |
| 13 | But I do not think it is this threat alone which explains the sick feeling of dread — rather like the feeling of a man who knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight — which clouds the prospect of a Labour victory . |
| 14 | Do you not think it 's worthwhile booking the rest of the year 's meetings or shall we do it as we carry on |
| 15 | I just thinks it 's human nature . |
| 16 | I think I just assumed he was that sort of person and night-time did that to him . |
| 17 | Just imagine it 's twelve pounds |
| 18 | ‘ What I just told you is straight reportage . |
| 19 | But generally speaking it 's three times the pension . |
| 20 | I am not saying they 're all pussycats but if you love and respect them , they will return those qualities tenfold . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying it 's hard work , like working on a farm , but they certainly do n't give everything to you on a silver platter , ’ she added as her name was called for yet another fitting . |
| 22 | I 've nicked bus stop signs , fucking road signs and stuff , I just get stupid , that 's if I get that pissed , I mean I probably talking of , talking of fucking all most not knowing you 're right name sort of pissed . |
| 23 | erm Mainly analyzing it with meterological data , you find that after the dry spell , when the rain does finally arrive it 's more acid , and it 's affected in . |
| 24 | ‘ Why does n't he just admit he 's half queenie ? |
| 25 | I just I just saw it was pure virgin olive oil and I thought oh that 'll do |
| 26 | He might have been persuaded to have them out here but he would not let them be any sort of nuisance , and she was well aware of it . |
| 27 | It 's not Carry it 's this thing we have to she tape conversations for speech therapy . |
| 28 | Well they wan na , do n't matter to me at all I just think they 're dodgy characters . |
| 29 | And er , it was on the shed roof , on the apex like that and it just had it 's front paws over like that so I quick , got the camera and through the back bedroom window erm , took a picture of it on the shed roof like that , it was just looking ! |
| 30 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |