Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) .
2 So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week .
3 You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry .
4 And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room .
5 Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice .
6 So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh .
7 And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no .
8 So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough .
9 So you owe me a hundred pound .
10 So we give them a twenty five per cent mark-up , and we reckon that this helps with the whole business of child-care , since we 're not ungenerous in the salaries we pay , fo for the start , adding , by adding twenty five per cent of that , we 're helping .
11 Perhaps they send you a similar letter .
12 So they gave him a special job . ’
13 At ten o'clock they gave us a handsome club sweater , which was so generous we decided to let someone else win the domino handicap .
14 Suddenly he gave her a rueful grin .
15 MARTIN LYNCH ( Cool Ground ) : ‘ Basically he gave me a great ride .
16 Perhaps it gives them a false sense of security .
17 So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral .
18 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
19 His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out .
20 So it gives her a little bit of leeway .
21 Tonight I find you the special number one steak , and the best wine . ’
22 what , what you need to do , and the sooner you do it the better , the sooner you can get the information the better , is to set out those sort of philosophical issues
23 The timbers are badly shaped and put together ; such a structure can only be a vehicle for plants and the sooner they cover it the better .
24 And the longer he held her the weaker she felt .
25 okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed .
26 The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so .
27 Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever .
28 ‘ Let it work its way through him , ’ said Ellen to Brenda , ‘ let it work its way through and out ; the harder I put it the faster it will happen . ’
29 One further thing that will help you to be a successful prescriber ; the more you enjoy it the easier it will be .
30 The more she praised me the quicker the needles clicked .
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