Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
| 2 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
| 3 | So I ask this congress to watch closely this benefits agency , and let's make sure that the sick and maternity grants get paid correctly to what they are entitled to . |
| 4 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 5 | So she wants some music does she ? |
| 6 | Naturally , we can not always choose what happens to us but , once we have reached adulthood , we can choose how much we let those happenings affect us . |
| 7 | So we saw this fellow go up to the window and look and then he went and got a stone from the kerb and ‘ bang ’ on the window . |
| 8 | so we get another hour done , that 's another hour of taping , so that 's er one and a quarter tapes , sure you wo n't take it home ? |
| 9 | So we 've all speakers chosen for their integrity and confidence . |
| 10 | So we need these people have ammi ammunition , to fight for us , . |
| 11 | The lake rarely freezes so we have little opportunity to discover our ice-legs . |
| 12 | So they spend less time searching for you and more time in your company . |
| 13 | He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory . |
| 14 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 15 | I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it |
| 16 | Yet every six months or so he found another excuse to get in touch with her . |
| 17 | So it says this scale shows both minutes and decimals and now use the scale to change these to minutes . |
| 18 | Only a few of these had pods , but here and elsewhere we found enough pods to make an important observation : all the wild cocoa throughout the Amazon region of Ecuador shares a common set of genetically determined characteristics including white seeds , very rough-surfaced yellow pods , and the absence of red pigmentation in the leaves . |
| 19 | ‘ The sooner we get this scum banged away the better . ’ |
| 20 | Anyway we get these complex done , and you can check that , and that fits the , right , and then the second part of the question t is find the argument Well the argument , remember what the argument is ? |
| 21 | Thus it makes little sense to refer to ‘ immigrant ’ communities ; what we now have are minority black British communities , that have already made a very substantial contribution to the growth and prosperity of the British economy . |
| 22 | but that means if you only actually fi it , to do it professionally you want enough room to do one project on one side of one sheet . |
| 23 | ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all . |
| 24 | Yesterday I did another radio mix , just the kind of dodgy old thing you 'd do in your bedroom , and they were videoing it . |
| 25 | Still she felt that breeze ruffling her hair , biting at her nose . |
| 26 | Cor Sue if ever you get any tickets to see them , we 'd better go and see them . |
| 27 | I suppose it could sound like a conscious courtesy — an agreeable gesture , but hardly one denoting that love has roots below the gum of consciousness . |
| 28 | Usually they have few opportunities to check that their instructions are being pursued and almost none to supervise their execution at first hand . |
| 29 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |
| 30 | ‘ People are coming here drunk , worried or tired of the chores of the world , but always they leave this place refreshed . ’ |