Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
| 2 | No — better not give her any excuse to make that sort of trouble . |
| 3 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 4 | I suppose I 'd better not tell him that thing you said about his face looking as if it was carved out of corned beef . |
| 5 | They came in today to give us this talk about kind of er , kind of erm , money we 're gon na get , whatever today , you know , like they said about the Poll Tax |
| 6 | That she has so kindly obliged me this evening , and on Twelfth Night of all nights causes me no small surprise . ’ |
| 7 | So how did she this letter . |
| 8 | So why invite them this year ? |
| 9 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 10 | The jungle in which they are isolated provides them with shelter but can not possibly offer them enough food . |
| 11 | She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence . |
| 12 | It will not even give him any power in Brittany , for if she comes here she loses whatever sway she has there . |
| 13 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 14 | All concerned believe Gloucestershire has a good race relations record … the question mark hangs over how to keep it that way . |
| 15 | Jack reckoned he was known amongst his male friends of that era as the Great Seducer — his own words — but friend-for-life Robert Towne did not quite remember it that way . |
| 16 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 17 | I mean has any body ever actually asked you that question before ? |
| 18 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 19 | After a robust game of rugby football in London — although his sight had never been excellent — his family sent him to his grandmother 's up here to give him some rest . |
| 20 | Nearly bloody killed me that dog ! |
| 21 | Right well learn them this way then learn only the sodium hydroxide right |
| 22 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
| 23 | Well of course I ca n't possibly give you any figure of how often , but bullying occasionally happens in the Army . |
| 24 | Do n't ever tell me that Love 's dimpled pander does n't earn his pesetas . |
| 25 | You did n't really give me much chance — ’ |
| 26 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |
| 27 | Could you please , please please send me another poster as the one I got with my Zzap ! ( which I 've enclosed was only half completed . |
| 28 | yeah , but that 's a hundred I mean you can tell , I 've tried it , it is , I , I ai n't even had it half way and it 's , you can tell it 's overdriving them |
| 29 | Pocket Book 's big summer read is from a promotable young actress , Lucinda Edmonds , with Lovers and Players ; Marsha Hunt does n't quite give us another Joy in her new one , Free ( Penguin ) , but her fans wo n't know that until they 've bought it . |
| 30 | Sorry , I could n't quite manage it that time |