Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track . |
| 2 | ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 3 | However little I care for the way you live , I shall concede that as long as you get your facts right , sense flavours and textures with accuracy and discrimination , think out the implications of your choices , are not deceived about your desires and ambitions , you may do as you please . |
| 4 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 5 | ‘ Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables . |
| 6 | But I knew I had to look , so slowly I peeped round the door . |
| 7 | Yeah , right I went in the playground . |
| 8 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 9 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 10 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Eventually I got onto the runway and found my wife . |
| 12 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 13 | Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist . |
| 14 | Delicately I reached for the telephone . |
| 15 | So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in . |
| 16 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 17 | But it was perhaps nothing compared with the hostility he faced over his plans to reform the legal profession . |
| 18 | After just six weeks , Rigby was playing her first gig behind Gedge and Solowka in a band called The Truth , who were obviously nothing to do with the chart group of the same name . |
| 19 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
| 20 | Suddenly I see in the calm of the garden a change , as though time has slowed . |
| 21 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 22 | Suddenly someone bangs on the drum in the corner , and we all look up . |
| 23 | Naturally I jumped at the chance . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 25 | Apparently someone recorded over the station security video by mistake , the gaunt woman who runs the kiosk is not prepared to testify . |
| 26 | ‘ Piano Song ’ , for instance , includes lines like ‘ My vulnerability rushes up to me ’ and ‘ The deeper I delve into the conciousness of me and you ’ , which sound as though they have been selected from a random computer-search for meaningful phrases in a dictionary of pretension . |
| 27 | So deeper and deeper I went into the world of science , wanting all the time to express myself in a totally different field . |
| 28 | So I came to the dinner for 20 minutes and sat with the sponsors . |
| 29 | So I went across the street , phoned Peter and said , ‘ Okay , if you still want me , I 'll join . ’ |
| 30 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |