Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where you 've got some in there it wo n't matter . |
| 2 | So if you begin catching barbel in the 4lb or larger bracket it is well worth sticking it out until they move on or you have caught most of them . |
| 3 | Can I say two minutes for what I think might happen and where we 've derived some of the authority from . |
| 4 | A popular feature of previous Festivals have been the ‘ Irish Writers ’ Evenings ’ , where we have brought some of the outstanding writers and poets in this island to read from their work . |
| 5 | They were already in some difficulty in northern Tonkin , where they had abandoned some of their isolated posts , so that , once again , it was the presence of China — shadow , perhaps , rather than substance — which was helping to transform the appreciations and perception of the struggle . |
| 6 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 7 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 8 | A good pile is made of the birch twigs ; then , when all is ready , the handful of needle-thins is taken from the pocket ( where they have left much of their moisture ) , put into the fire centre , and carefully lit with a match . |
| 9 | They did so in the face of widespread steel closures , rising unemployment , and knowledge about their poor prospects of re-employment , or they had had enough of work and felt they deserved a rest . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm almost completely English , you know , apart from the name , although I 've lived most of my life in France . |
| 11 | But chopin is not my domain , although I do admire some of his works enormously . |
| 12 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 13 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 14 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
| 15 | And then I shall inform the Public Prosecutor 's department that I 've informed both of you . |
| 16 | One of the few things , erm , that I 'm really proud of about myself , is that I 've read all of them . |
| 17 | So generally to make it , to make it straightforward , I tend to er differentiate , so that I 've got some in the ta the non-taxpayer 's name up to the limit , and then a joint account perhaps which will be usable by both of them er for instant access , that type of thing . |
| 18 | Referring to complaining neighbours the Hanleys she said : ‘ I just do n't know how they can sleep at night next door because I could n't , knowing that I 'd done that to someone . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 20 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 21 | The one that I tend to use most of the time is this one not least , because it only three pounds , and it 's quite affordable but a , again , it 's got a loud sound to it , and I found that if you carry one of these with you and somebody does approach you , you 've always got this in your pocket and you can actually aim it them , cos they do n't know what you 've got in your hand . |
| 22 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 23 | ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm not sure that I want to share that with a family magazine ! |
| 25 | Some of the poems in the present book , only his second , are so old that I seem to remember some of them from another world . |
| 26 | It is to the connected questions of developing and making available our unpublished collections , and dealing with the problem of what constitutes a published source , that I propose to devote most of this paper . |
| 27 | Indeed , it had been on roach trips that I have found most of my bream swims in the past and although I 'm a roach man first and foremost , a splendid , clean seven pound river bream has never given me cause for complaint ! |
| 28 | If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value . |
| 29 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 30 | She hoped her stepfather would be home late : although she had spent most of her life with him , she regretted that her mother had felt unable to exist as a single parent , and Camille still wished that he would prove unfaithful or die . |