Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 2 | But most important , please decide today to give yourself the financial protection of the Midland Personal Accident Plan . |
| 3 | So Vecchi hi-tails it out to the sanatorium , hangs around until the great man and Rico leave then gives it a few more minutes before walking in and giving Connie another grilling . |
| 4 | Certainly ‘ Scarlet Ribbons ’ was one he used to sing to her ; here Sinead tremulously gives it an elegiac quality with tin whistle and uileann pipes and painful memories nearly overwhelm her halfway through . |
| 5 | Next you come to the dark ride where history takes on a life of its own and light , movement and sound come together to give you a realistic living picture of the town and its history . |
| 6 | You 're just from the YTS. — You 've only known her a few weeks . |
| 7 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |
| 8 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 9 | Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper . |
| 10 | Perhaps if I move on I think we 've perhaps got one a little bit bigger . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've just landed yourself the best guide on the island , Miss Chester . |
| 12 | I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’ |
| 13 | They 've just given you a first read . |
| 14 | Well erm , I 've just gave them a quick rinse because the erm , that stuff 's |
| 15 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've already told me a great many things , an alarming number of which have turned out not to be true . |
| 17 | But we 've had a very very well we 've still got him a good treasurer . |
| 18 | I 've also given you a living assurance rate book , because we 'll be looking at both the rate books in a minute . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've even given it a full display window , Folly . |
| 20 | You 've certainly set us a hard act to follow ! |
| 21 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 22 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 23 | ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there . |
| 24 | ‘ The authorities have only allowed me a little time with you . |
| 25 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 26 | I have just given you the traditional quantum mechanical recipe for calculating probabilities . |
| 27 | I have always found it a great advantage to loathe my political opponents . |
| 28 | Its magnitude is given as 6.6 , but I have always found it an elusive binocular object . |
| 29 | Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics . |
| 30 | Announcing this programme , the then Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , said dramatically , ‘ Our nuclear pioneers have now given us a second chance — to lead another industrial revolution in the second half of the twentieth century . ' |