Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 2 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 3 | You had them for quite a long while . |
| 4 | That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food . |
| 5 | Their kills tend to be rich in protein , providing enough energy to sustain them for quite a long time . |
| 6 | I want to talk to you about quite a different matter . |
| 7 | Scott said that , having just completed writing his Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture , Present and Future , the ‘ great competition , then , found me in rather a prepared state of mind ’ . |
| 8 | The department making the greatest use of external libraries uses them on quite a regular basis , ‘ at least once a month ’ ; , and uses them to obtain any general type of information . |
| 9 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 10 | She talked to him for only a short while and left him a booklet with clear diagrams of the proposed surgery . |
| 11 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |
| 12 | I can remember seeing him on quite a poor peg on the River Trent at Winthorpe , giving a super display of distance stickfloat fishing , still one of the hardest techniques to master . |
| 13 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 14 | Well I seen her at even the other day . |
| 15 | Erm , and I have no side effects to it , I 've been on it for quite a long while . |
| 16 | For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time … |
| 17 | There 's a small chance she may recover from it with just the supportive treatment , now the cause of the disease has been eliminated , but if she does n't she 'll be in line for a bone marrow transplant . |
| 18 | Designing your own printed circuit board from scratch and then fabricating it from just a plain board can be a very rewarding experience . |
| 19 | Because of their beauty such villages are also more subject to draconian planning policies which may prevent any new development at all or restrict it to only the limited in-filling of low-density private housing . |
| 20 | I thought I might hit him with it and knock him out , if I did it at just the right moment . |
| 21 | Nevertheless the influence of Parliament in this respect could be considerable and the need to give it at least a certain amount of information about foreign affairs could hardly be avoided . |
| 22 | Although medieval students were often noisy and riotous , the aims of their travels were peaceful , and this sets them at least a certain distance apart from the crusaders . |
| 23 | This just gives time for production and dispatch to members giving them at least a clear month before the next event . |
| 24 | Standard disc drives can not duplicate the ‘ I can not read that ’ instruction because the unreadable sectors have data written on them at twice the normal speed . |
| 25 | Dad used to put erm a lot on it but we had to have erm the chimney sweep at ours for quite a long time |
| 26 | For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike . |
| 27 | The public invisibility and the self-policing that are so central to lesbian and gay oppression place us in quite a different position , socially and economically , from each of these other groups . |