Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must reduce the degree to which intervention plays a part and increase that to which the premium plays a part , and I am negotiating along those lines . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm wearing as many skins as an onion and I 'm still freezing , ’ Anne told Sarah . |
| 3 | ‘ If , however , you persist in being damned awkward , I 'll be quite happy to let you freeze your butt off — and you 'll suffer before I will , since I 'm wearing considerably more clothes . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm rolling up these things in case the wee dog gets them . |
| 5 | I mean the only reason I 'm I 'm running up these debts is that now I 've got so little capital left , that I 've got to keep the capital for sheer disasters like the boiler . |
| 6 | ‘ I was thinking along those lines . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do you really believe I was thinking along those lines ? |
| 8 | Around 1985 I was getting so many requests from students , mainly from Blackwomen , to give interviews to inform their dissertations . |
| 9 | And I was missing too many games complaining of a bad knee when there was nothing really wrong with it . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , as Richie Quick I was following up some leads . |
| 11 | Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy . |
| 12 | Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time . |
| 13 | ‘ I was researching along these lines , the end product of which was you . |
| 14 | When you are passing over these mountains ( poynting with his finger towarde the south mountaines ) … you shall see another sea , where they sayle with ships as bigge as yours , using both sayles and ores as you doe , although they men be naked as wee are … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I would ask you to come in and sit down , but you are wearing so many clothes . ’ |
| 16 | Because you are saying how many ones go into ten . |
| 17 | Let me write this down for you , ten divide by one is ten , because you are saying how many ones are in ten and the answer is ten , okay ? |
| 18 | ‘ You are figuring how many minutes and hours you will have to endure in my company . ’ |
| 19 | Avoid places such as dry cleaners and petrol stations while you are testing out these measures . |
| 20 | Last year we gave four point four million , either in kind , or in people 's time , not including er , that that 's secondees , or erm , in in money , er , and er , it sounds a lot of money , but you can easily get rid of that sum , when you 're receiving so many requests . |
| 21 | You were covering as many miles a day as you possibly could , depending on the going … . |
| 22 | You were allowed so few clothes that it was nice to be able to wear something different . |
| 23 | And , of course , if the bitter-lemon drinker is insisting on one labelled ‘ low calorie ’ , he or she is consuming hardly any calories at all and is to be congratulated . |
| 24 | She was brought here several days ago following a mysterious incident at her home . |
| 25 | Erm , and at the moment we are carrying out some studies which er are nearing completion , to decided exactly what the R A F's future requirements are for tactical reconnaissance . |
| 26 | ‘ We are letting too many companies go bust . |
| 27 | ‘ Now I 'm alongside Dean and we 're creating so many chances . |
| 28 | ‘ Though we 're wearing too many clothes , and a bed would be preferable to a car . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I would like to make a record so we 're putting together some tapes this month and we hope to send them off to recording companies and agents to see if we can get a contract . |
| 30 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |