Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track . |
| 2 | ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 3 | However little I care for the way you live , I shall concede that as long as you get your facts right , sense flavours and textures with accuracy and discrimination , think out the implications of your choices , are not deceived about your desires and ambitions , you may do as you please . |
| 4 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 5 | ‘ Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables . |
| 6 | But I knew I had to look , so slowly I peeped round the door . |
| 7 | Yeah , right I went in the playground . |
| 8 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 9 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 10 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Eventually I got onto the runway and found my wife . |
| 12 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 13 | Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist . |
| 14 | Delicately I reached for the telephone . |
| 15 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 16 | It was eight-twenty when I hit Wilshire and a mile or so further on I turned into the Avenida San Vincente . |
| 17 | Ma has still not appeared , which leaves only me to deal with the scraps and slivers before the flies from the sewage works arrive . |
| 18 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
| 19 | Suddenly I see in the calm of the garden a change , as though time has slowed . |
| 20 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 21 | Naturally I jumped at the chance . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 23 | On my way down I pass through a forest of art deco bronze and ivory figures to be sold tomorrow . |
| 24 | When we began to slow down I knocked on the door . |
| 25 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 26 | ‘ I still do miss her so much , but when I 'm down I think of the way she kept so cheerful after losing Dad , although she missed him terribly … so I try to keep cheerful for her . ’ |
| 27 | After the phone went down I sat in the garden like a very old terracotta gargoyle . |
| 28 | ‘ Piano Song ’ , for instance , includes lines like ‘ My vulnerability rushes up to me ’ and ‘ The deeper I delve into the conciousness of me and you ’ , which sound as though they have been selected from a random computer-search for meaningful phrases in a dictionary of pretension . |
| 29 | So deeper and deeper I went into the world of science , wanting all the time to express myself in a totally different field . |
| 30 | So I came on the Monday night to the Guild and it , it was n't long after , only a matter of weeks , before this lady erm she er came back home from Canada seeing to some other woman and er she just sat down and died . |