Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have a gap there but I mean whereas at the moment it 's like that , not to that . |
| 2 | I wandered as in a dream through the gate and across the road . |
| 3 | I did n't come because you said I could have anything I wanted , I came because of the past . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I came because of the past , ’ Susan told him . |
| 5 | Erm there 's enough I think enough has been said on , school meals , it 's those , they 're only in , in the , both were identified with efficiency savings of er Joanne erm in school meals without I hope because in the content or the , the nutritional value of the basic meal . |
| 6 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 7 | Most anthropologists would prefer to look elsewhere , partly I suspect because of the way the biological arguments have been overstated . |
| 8 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 9 | ‘ I improved because of a lot of practice , ’ said Geoff . |
| 10 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 11 | Besides , what I do with Morthen I do because of the forest in my blood . |
| 12 | well there just cast your look , but I think cos of the frame was a modern looking |
| 13 | Incidentally , in this area , it is Darwin who is derivative of the moral philosophers and not as is commonly supposed , largely I think because of the work of Spencer , the other way around . |
| 14 | ‘ I think because of the show at MOMA , Matisse is the artist of hotness ’ , said the Barnes 's licensing agent , Bob Robinson , of Emerald City Enterprise . |
| 15 | The funeral cars and hearse have blue flashing lights on the roof , very similar to a policecar , when I enquired as to the reason for this , apparently it 's the only way they can get around the island for the traffic and the laid-back attitude of the locals . |
| 16 | that you normally play with erm I wonder if during the course of erm this discussion today if you feel erm that it 's gone well for you |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I was very pleased at the way I ran because despite the fact that my training did not go so well I was only five minutes behind my best ever time . |
| 18 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 19 | I admit they will find that something of a puzzle , but given the low critical standards of provincial audiences , they might hit upon the felicitous conclusion that she choked while in the midst of an exaggeratedly hilarious response to that pathetic farce . |
| 20 | Hotspur had promised her a fair deliverance , vouching for the prince no less than for himself , and in his promise she believed as in the mass . |
| 21 | The chief bridesmaid takes the bride 's bouquet which she keeps until after the signing of the register . |
| 22 | I mean I 've got my own thoughts , I have to be careful here that you know I 've got to try and pull together what you think because at the end of the day it 's it 's very important that it reflects the way we work in school , not the way I perceive I we work in in school because you 're the people at the chalk first . |
| 23 | We turn now from materials with a focus on language to materials you choose because of the topic they present . |
| 24 | But I suspected you were — well , feeling the way you did because of the way I 've been wrapped up in work , rather than because of any change in your condition . ’ |
| 25 | Can you spell when to the class ? |
| 26 | When you apply for a grant , be it by way of proving a will or of administration which is when there is an intestacy , part of the er documentation is an oath where you swear as to the size of the estate . |
| 27 | It was so wonderful every time she kicked although towards the end I got terrible backache and I was so tired all the time . |
| 28 | Lean forward as you rise As in the beach start , by leaning down on a straight front arm you are taking the weight off the back of the board and putting it on the mast foot . |
| 29 | A Palace spokesman did not comment on claims she left because of the princess 's marriage crisis . |
| 30 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |