Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 2 | Either you enjoy fighting , or you have very difficult neighbours ! |
| 3 | You get paid for playing er , you do n't ha or you have very few scores , you do n't have line-outs and basically you tackle about a hundred million times a game . |
| 4 | There is , of course , much argument about what is ‘ normal ’ , but in general it should mean that every adult person lives in a home of his or her own or with chosen friends or family members , that he or she has daily purposeful occupation , whether in paid employment or not , and that the person has social contacts and interpersonal relationships which are emotionally satisfying . |
| 5 | This allows the writer to join the PRS as a publisher member when he or she has enough qualifying works , to end the administration deal , and to sign the rights in his or her songs into a personally owned published company . |
| 6 | In this he or she follows very broad lines of action , trying to be as open-minded and receptive as possible , seeing all the patterns that begin to emerge . |
| 7 | These result largely from its use in patients who either do not benefit at all or who derive only temporary improvement or whose rescue leaves them more severely disabled than they were . |
| 8 | This method is perhaps more acceptable for those who can not or will not cope with blood testing or who have very stable diabetes because of some residual β-cell function . |
| 9 | Cardioselective β-blocking drugs appear the drugs of choice in the hypertensive diabetic in whom dietary therapy has failed or who has more severe hypertension , although there may be an important role for the calcium antagonists . |
| 10 | One either needs enormous amounts of computer storage space for a very large data dictionary , or one needs very fast data processing for string searching . |
| 11 | Our resorts are off the beaten track ; to reach them we fly to offbeat airfields with skimpy facilities , or we take unfashionably long bus drives from better known airports . |
| 12 | You could say that with all the service Deane gets from the midfield he should have scored more than two ( as I say Lee 's got 4 & he gets hardly any service ! ) . |
| 13 | All the groups faced one of two basic choices : either the loan carried much higher APR as the repayment period grew longer ; or it carried much lower APR as the repayment period grew longer . |
| 14 | The Lord Chancellor has invited and me to put forward positive recommendations , which we have undertaken to do , after the fullest consultation . |
| 15 | Glenn Clements , a burly policeman who took a break from his job to be in charge of the Pinnochio group , says : ‘ I 've got four kids and I get far more pleasure taking these children on holiday than I do my own . ’ |
| 16 | The turnout last year was heartening , with the lodge packed to the brim , and I hope as many members will attend again this year . |
| 17 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
| 18 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 19 | Y we put it in the garden and I got really cold hands and then was just about to put them into hot water when you said do n't cos you 'll get chilblains |
| 20 | Norma got a huge big chip with chicken dip and then we brought Fred back something to eat as well , we were starving , and I got home last night and I was gon na make myself a sandwich but mummy-in-law was in bed so I says och I 'll just go to bed myself . |
| 21 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 22 | And I got hardly any cans back . |
| 23 | Next year I am going to be very active in the theatre and I 've already this morning , sown the seed er for possibly er giving a particular performance er of one of the plays in this particular season I 'm going to do er for Save The Children Fund and I 've said |
| 24 | I 've got more of an athletic figure than a womanly figure — and I 've hardly any waist ’ |
| 25 | And I know so many songs that it would be fun to go out there and say , ‘ Hey , man , do you remember this one ? ’ or , ‘ Here 's one you have n't heard in a long time . ' ’ |
| 26 | And I know only one way you do that . |
| 27 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 28 | Having now seen the answers , I find that my wife and I had just one word wrong . |
| 29 | To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go . |
| 30 | But I was an old man with bad eyes , and Aunt Branwell and I had very little money . |