Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If there 's no wind it 's a fine day ! ’ is a Shetland expression , and to me it is especially relevant because not only does it affect the movements of birds and animals , but it makes them so much easier to see on the water . |
| 2 | Oh , Hilly , am I so very hard to talk to ? |
| 3 | So in a very different world to that of Shakespearean comedy , a must harsher abrasive world erm again th that bit where she 's ge get , do I get the impression that most of you found yours much more difficult to get into |
| 4 | Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay . |
| 5 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 6 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 7 | are you ever too old to FALL IN LOVE ? |
| 8 | Leaders turned out not to be willing to give up sovereignty over ‘ low-level ’ political issues ; nor , when they did , were they thereby more inclined to integrate in ‘ high-level ’ politics . |
| 9 | In spite of her rage with him she admitted that she found him just about perfect to look at . |
| 10 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 11 | She supposed it would be good practice for later ; Margaret said it took her twice as long to shop with her three month-old child , Tom , because everyone looked into the pram and talked to him . |
| 12 | Engels says that Cognos is now in the early stages of negotiation with ICL and Bull and the company is engineering a Unix System V.4-compliant product that will make it economically more reasonable to appear on a wider variety of Unix environments . |
| 13 | So it 's just to make it much more comfortable to look at . |
| 14 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 15 | To begin with I found it almost too much to take on board , but it was all extremely thought-provoking and I had to make a decision to put my heart into it or not to bother at all ; it would have been pointless just to dip into it now and again . |
| 16 | You will not find it quite so easy to get round me . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe it 's partly due to that air of arrogant hauteur you have , but I find it quite unbearably exciting to look at you and know of the passion that 's lurking underneath . |
| 18 | In addition , it would make us far less likely to eat for the wrong reasons . |