Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Lord Chancellor has invited and me to put forward positive recommendations , which we have undertaken to do , after the fullest consultation . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The turnout last year was heartening , with the lodge packed to the brim , and I hope as many members will attend again this year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And I got hardly any cans back . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | I 've got more of an athletic figure than a womanly figure — and I 've hardly any waist ’ |
| 21 | 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 . ' ’ |
| 22 | And I know only one way you do that . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Having now seen the answers , I find that my wife and I had just one word wrong . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But I was an old man with bad eyes , and Aunt Branwell and I had very little money . |
| 27 | Poor Julia and I had very unhappy lives . |
| 28 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 29 | And I thought well that way it 's done in n it ? |
| 30 | He reminded us of our debt to those whose labour supported our studies and I recalled this many years later when , passing through Harvard , I read the inscription commemorating the foundation of its college in order that future generations might be spared an unlettered clergy . |