Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except I am much more so than you ! |
| 2 | Er somebody said to me about her childhood experiences , well I did n't really survive them , I 'm just here still because I did n't die . |
| 3 | Because it 's there 's if I 'm there for three weeks and they only want a score card done then my potential earnings er total earnings are that but I 'm there anyway so if I 'm getting both of them done then I can earn a lot more money . |
| 4 | I was n't even here when he brought you in . |
| 5 | I did I was n't even here when you had it like when you first came to this school . |
| 6 | I was n't there long before things started to happen . |
| 7 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 8 | Oh , he was earning more than I get but I was worse off then than I am now . |
| 9 | Well I was there pretty well until I , fourteen , until I left school . |
| 10 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |
| 11 | You 're only here once so you 've got to try and make the most of it and enjoy life to the full . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Will you be all right here if I go and stretch my legs for a while ? ’ |
| 13 | Both of you be here as soon as possible . ’ |
| 14 | Cos she 's quite pretty actually if she lost weight . |
| 15 | But she is still not quite as she was , I take it ? ’ |
| 16 | She was a dark , broad-faced girl with Slavic eyes ; under her thick make-up she was probably little more than twenty . |
| 17 | She was no longer safely where he had left her and waiting for his return . |
| 18 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 19 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 20 | But she was much more still than Shelley , and on the whole very silent , and in her silence was a mournful quality . |
| 21 | You was n't long then because I went |
| 22 | For those white English women who are still in doubt , hear this … we are all over here because you have all been over there . |
| 23 | ‘ We are obviously not there when someone is being tortured or killed . |
| 24 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 25 | We 're only together tonight because you put us both on the same invitation . |
| 26 | The date of the Withington and Newton St. Loe mosaics remains unclear , but , on stylistic grounds the author would assign them also to the fourth century ( pace Smith 1969 , 100 ) : they are probably slightly later than the above pavements ( section 4.3 ) but almost certainly are before 340 . |
| 27 | ‘ I just wish I had the opportunity to buy a quality player like that more often , but they are not around even if you have the money . |
| 28 | Some of the listed newcomers may not sell as well as the established names mentioned beneath them , but they are there very often because publishers are promoting them heavily , and I have tried to pick the best of these . |
| 29 | The syllabus is still conceived of as a collection of atomistic linguistic elements even though they are now functionally rather than formally defined . |
| 30 | In many cases they are now actually quicker than their petrol-engined equivalents , despite offering considerable gains in economy . |