Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill had only parked it here a few minutes ago . |
| 2 | see that , that come aha , well that carpet we 've got in the sitting room you know , it was , it was twelve hundred pound , only put it down a few , er a few months before we |
| 3 | Joan , Diane and Matt , so we 'll see if we can get good this time so show you how the same . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe you 'd better tell it just the same , ’ I said . |
| 5 | But still easy enough to get it just a tiny bit wrong . |
| 6 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 7 | You just lay it over a little bit more , it slides and it scrubs off that much more speed . ’ |
| 8 | Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ? |
| 9 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 10 | I just find it much the same |
| 11 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 12 | Well we 'll just have it up a little bit else you ca n't hear what they 're saying . |
| 13 | I 'm just rubbing it out a little bit to give me a bit more space |
| 14 | I 'll just put it back a little bit there . |
| 15 | The scanning expert said : ‘ The easiest way to do that would be to enhance the quality of the original recording then just play it down an ordinary phone to a mobile phone in an area where the signal was strong . |
| 16 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 17 | ‘ How can I ever treat her quite the same again' , he said . |
| 18 | In Ninfania , no one threw away the feather of a bird or the peel of a fruit or the seed from a melon , let alone such durable items as the buttons and hooks and eyes from a worn-out item of underwear — I 've seen you still snip them off an old bra , even today , and drop them into a little box in your sewing basket . |
| 19 | He was still brazening it out the next morning when the Provost and his bodyguard of twelve mounted serjeants and ten archers came to collect us . |
| 20 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 21 | They also show them clearly the massive benefits enjoyed by employers and the costs which they are carrying . |
| 22 | If you are uncertain of the type of frame you want to use , or even of the very important role it plays in setting off the finished picture , browsing through the photographs in this book should give you a good idea of the tremendous versatility of frames , and also show you how the correct frame will focus the eye on the design itself , as well as balance all its elements . |
| 23 | If it is your own mother who is bereaved , the fact that you are grieving too will probably help you both a good deal , as you will be able to share your sorrow and comfort each other ; though in some families shared sorrow occasionally leads to friction and unreasonable apportioning of blame for trivial or imagined omissions in the course of the terminal illness of the deceased . |
| 24 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 25 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 26 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 27 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 28 | I had promised him that I would look her up , convey his admiring regards , and perhaps even bring him back a signed photograph of Miss Dragonette . |
| 29 | Ca n't say fairer than that , except if th'bist good to me as well I might even give thee back the two shilling . ’ |
| 30 | If the teacher criticised or even hit you then the last thing to do was complain at home because the certainty was you would be criticised or hit again . |