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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [det] [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Animal welfare groups want them outlawed all together .
2	Let me make that absolutely clear .
3	Well , let me throw that aside .
4	There is no doubt that for the fathers the Devil is the Enemy , and on the whole most of them stress this even more than did St Paul himself .
5	But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry !
6	‘ And I take it you want me to pass this on to the investigating team ? ’
7	Well after you discharged the ship cos all the blood was there and erm they used to have to wash them holds all out then and this bacon was put on open lorries and taken to London , put in the refrigerator .
8	This is why the tone of his communications with me has that slightly patronizing and protective edge .
9	Now I know , know of no law of economics which would permit that , would you be prepared for us to pay a lot out of tax payers ' resources to give to the Soviet people , to help their economy , to help them survive this very difficult transition period ?
10	Do you want me to write that on ?
11	How do I make that particularly clear ?
12	Dad , can I make these up ?
13	I hates that not knowing .
14	I dispute that really ; I dispute that enough .
15	I dispute that really ; I dispute that enough .
16	‘ There was a great team spirit right through the party , and I made some very lasting friendships .
17	Shall I throw that away then ?
18	Shall I throw this out ?
19	I regret that now . ’
20	I mean that just like .
21	I mean that quite literally .
22	When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally .
23	‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally .
24	And I mean all together .
25	I tell you something else as well , if you want me to take you out any time you want me to take you out and , and I mean this honestly if you do n't want sex you wo n't have to have it
26	Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist .
27	I only wish and I mean this very sincerely I only wish we could spend as much time and as often as is spent discussing fox hunting on the county 's homeless , on abused children , on the handicapped , on the increasing crime and on unemployment and I only wish that the media and the public and even members of this council would take as much notice of that as they do about this debate on fox hunting .
28	It may very well be , and I mean this seriously , that the adman invented the teenager .
29	mhm Well I mean this obviously is a decision is it not for the military commanders ?
30	Yeah I mean some very nice girls do n't take that wrong I mean , they n they do n't hit you on the head and start fighting every time you talk to them .