Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 2 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 3 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 4 | For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city . |
| 5 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 6 | You know , I should think somewhere where you are |
| 7 | ‘ All calls will be treated confidentially and there should be no fear at all of their identity being disclosed . ’ |
| 8 | Do n't eliminate somewhere because it sounds ridiculous or out of the question . |
| 9 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 10 | He or she will be obliged to wait politely as you go about your task , which you can time to complete at the same moment you recover the skill of breathing in and out . |
| 11 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 12 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 13 | She fought bitterly as he came back to her . |
| 14 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 15 | Fairley asked politely as they took the floor . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll stay right where you are until I 've made you a hot drink . |
| 17 | Mr Wolski was interested in this because he himself had seen the RSPB man at the Zoo yesterday and had heard unofficially that their real worry was that someone might try to trap or shoot the bird . |
| 18 | What is likely to matter most when someone is buying your product is a quite vague general impression that it is familiar and that they have heard good of it somewhere : not an explicit memory of an ad . |
| 19 | He did not say it loudly and she was not sure she had heard right so she continued . |
| 20 | 'Nothing seems to go right and everyone else is better off than we are . ’ |
| 21 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 22 | This is because here energy levels are often depleted — either she does n't eat properly or she diets in order to keep slim . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I can not eat properly and I ca n't sleep before a round , I get very nervous . |
| 24 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 25 | Our own experience in writing this chapter has confirmed our previous experience that this material is in short supply and widely dispersed , and some of it will disappear altogether if it is not soon collected . |
| 26 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 27 | She 'd heard since that he 'd left the health service and gone abroad to work … and now not only was he back , but she was expected to work with him . |
| 28 | You 'll want somewhere where you can either have it hanging |
| 29 | The long day passed slowly and it grew very hot . |
| 30 | I 'd heard somewhere that you ca n't stop it after the end of the third month . |