Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Events that happen previously show us that Atticus is a person that we can put our trust in . |
| 2 | Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways . |
| 3 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
| 4 | I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash . |
| 5 | I 've only given you one sprout so you 're alright . |
| 6 | You 've only had it two minutes . |
| 7 | Well I 've just chucked me bloody jack . |
| 8 | I 've just given her twenty pounds , she 's got no change so she 's going to drop me the pound in . |
| 9 | We then came up against a stop , and as I said a moment ago , our choice was between that budget , as negotiated , and the Labour budget , and I 've just shown you one hole in that budget . |
| 10 | Because you did not meet the deadline and you 've just told me that deadline means the day I said I wanted it . |
| 11 | I 've just took me blooming jacks . |
| 12 | However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time . |
| 13 | It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell … |
| 14 | You 've already lost me one race because you 're still hung up on that business at Ascot . |
| 15 | My piano lesson is on Monday , and I 've hardly touched it this week . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've hardly seen you this evening , have I ? |
| 17 | Because we 've always done it that way . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 19 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
| 20 | They 've always given me tremendous support and , when I 've been able to in a busy schedule , I 've reciprocated . |
| 21 | I 've always wanted me own window . |
| 22 | I 've still got them two speakers here , he wanted them . |
| 23 | Champions Bath also made it two wins out of two after thrashing London Irish 42-16 thanks to two first half tries from prop Victor Ubogu . |
| 24 | You 've really done it this time . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've really done it this time , have n't I ? ’ |
| 26 | Well if you 've almost drowned her one week I should think you could quite well bring yourself to put a spider in her desk the next week said Daryl . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never asked it that sort of question , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I 've never given her enough sympathy . |
| 29 | ‘ They 've never done me any harm and I have seven bairns , ’ she said while eating a bag of chips in the sun . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |