Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well it 's not the grate , it 's the I think when we 've cemented it together it wants a bigger fireplace for that
2 Furthermore he has a particular site in mind , as he reveals in the next round of the negotiations .
3 Suddenly he emits a loud cry : ‘ Ma !
4 So naturally he travels a great deal , and is in demand as a consultant wherever Roman sites are being excavated .
5 Naturally he needs a working knowledge of property and company law and the law of procedure ; and the better his knowledge , the better he is at his job .
6 Apparently it goes a long way .
7 Apparently he has a great estate beyond the Sierra Nevada — big hacienda or some such thing .
8 Naturally it prefers a muddy tank bottom .
9 I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love .
10 I 'm not sure perhaps it has a thin catheter or wire I do n't know wire I 'm not sure .
11 " Well , " Graham said slowly , deciding he had better say something nice , " it 's good , but perhaps it needs a little work . "
12 Ellen may well be a marvellous wife for Derek and the solace of his mature period but perhaps he needs a different partner on air .
13 Obviously he has a long way to mature physically , but he 's surpassed our hopes .
14 Only it seems a long way to go !
15 I do speak German , only it needs a major overhaul to set it right . ’
16 So he forms a little investment company , B , and exchanges his shares in A for shares in B. No capital gains tax at that stage .
17 Like both the Aristotelians and Gassendi , Locke talks of their ‘ natures ’ or ‘ essences ’ , but in doing so he makes a sharp distinction between ‘ real ’ and ‘ nominal ’ essence .
18 So it takes a long time think more egalitarian .
19 It ignores the real history of the press in Britain and so it paints a naïve picture of a conservative and debased medium which offers little real choice .
20 So it makes a refreshing change to able to write about something nice .
21 Erm so it makes a common basis of communication .
22 As in one of those New Yorker cartoons , when Pandarus sees a young couple together he has a mental image of a bed , organized by himself .
23 But the tendency in households for business decisions to be left to the husband and for the wife , whether or not she is a joint owner of the matrimonial home and whether or not she has a separate job , to have the main domestic responsibilities still persists .
24 Lately she seems a little low in spirits . ’
25 Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen .
26 At the moment it is closed but normally it displays a rich collection of textiles .
27 The idea which has swallowed Kirillov is suicide , not suicide for the common cause of the quintet as Dostoevsky first proposed , but to achieve a metaphysical and religious purpose ; and thus he plays a big part in the transformation of a neat political generation-gap story into a larger , more complicated object .
28 Thus he incorporates a disposable debate between Dickens , Chatterton , Wilde and T. S. Eliot , all of them members of the Ackroyd stable .
29 Thus it ensures a continuous process of review covering all permissions .
30 Too easily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy : ‘ We ca n't expect the majority of students to do very well — so do n't blame us for the failures . ’
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