Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made you want to crawl in with them mucky birds like that ? |
| 2 | I do hope you do n't think this is presumptuous , and I expect you are very busy generally , but perhaps you and your husband would like to come here for supper one evening , or we could go out somewhere , or if it 's easier , I could drop in to you one evening for a short time for a chat . |
| 3 | All around him other men in pale suits are driving into town . |
| 4 | And while she tries to keep her family life together , her mother Mae-Britt , 73 , is slipping slowly away from her each day with Alzheimer 's Disease . |
| 5 | She had always known that she must get away from him some time in order to reach Lori , and there could n't be a better opportunity . |
| 6 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 7 | All the visitors brought home with them visual memories of the sights they had seen , the feelings they had experienced and , in particular , the tremendous warmth and hospitality extended to us all by the Norwegians . |
| 8 | The commander of an East Indiamen might bring home with him 38 tons of cargo , his chief mate was allowed eight tons , the second officer six tons , and the remaining officers in decreasing proportion , but for all of them it was an important part of their remuneration . |
| 9 | Also through him many others from Europe and countries further East were introduced to gardeners on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 10 | I caught up with him half way to the gates . |
| 11 | ‘ I am fed up with you useless bunch of midgets ! ’ roared the Trunchbull . |
| 12 | There are rooms awaiting you , my ladies , and you , my lord , and hot water being taken up to them this instant for you . ’ |
| 13 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 14 | It 's not right they were out of it six months before then . |
| 15 | Walking towards the station , having promised to bring back with her all sorts of expensive food items Tina had requested from Selfridges ' Food Hall , Cecilia thought how much she liked living on her own and that at seventy-six she was too old to have Jasper and Bienvida running around her , fond of them as she was , not to mention Tina 's boyfriends and the odd hours she kept and her lying in bed till noon . |
| 16 | He vowed to break his association with the board after being thrown back from it several feet across the room . |
| 17 | Not very far from me another baby by , apparently full fed and contented . |
| 18 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 19 | We will then do a deal with the employer to release the trainee back to us one day per week for training . |
| 20 | Erm , well we 've got , I 'll take a few notes erm during this , during the course of our conversation , I 'll take them away , study them in complete confidence and come back to you next week with my recommendations . |
| 21 | Mr Palomar , the observer , is a nervous man , living ‘ in a frenzied and congested world ’ ( Calvino 1986 : 4 ) : congested not only with other humans like himself , crowding preferably into places which seem to reflect back at them mute incomprehension of their triumphant ubiquity ( the zoo , the garden of rocks and sand of the Ryoanji of Kyoto ) , but criss-crossed furthermore with signals and signs , simultaneously requiring and resisting interpretation . |
| 22 | He had never thought the reflection which looked back at him each morning from the shaving mirror was particularly handsome . |
| 23 | I love the very dark flowered ‘ Black Magic ’ , which did well for me last summer in a tub placed outside in a sunny , sheltered spot . |
| 24 | They are seen most clearly in the marked tendency for diplomats to acquire foreign wives ( and sometimes with them significant amounts of property in foreign countries ) . |
| 25 | turns round to you half way through the job and says by the way you must do this . |
| 26 | I 'll try and get round to it first thing in the morning . |