Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect everyone to go at least a second faster tomorrow , ’ said Mansell , who set the record in the penultimate lap of the session . |
| 2 | I laughed at this , but it made me think of where Charlie may have inherited some of his cruelty . |
| 3 | ’ When you 've finished drooling over him , you might re-activate your brain and help me think of how to find our why he 's here . ’ |
| 4 | When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’ |
| 5 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 6 | Would you like Bigwig and me to go over there first , by ourselves , and report back ? " |
| 7 | Mike organized it , for me to go over there and then I did n't need to be there at all , cos noth nobody turned up . |
| 8 | As the hon. Gentleman has said , Mrs. X has indicated that she may be taking proceedings further , so it would be most improper for me to go into too much detail on this case . |
| 9 | Nothing to quarrel with there . |
| 10 | Everyone remarks on how aggressive it now is , and it seems Down Under , Hewlett-Packard Co made its point about its new mainframe-killing Emerald servers by launching them in the Fossil Gallery of the Australian Museum , carefully labelling the dinosaur skeletons with jibes at IBM Corp , Hitachi Ltd , Fujitsu Ltd , Amdahl Corp and Digital Equipment Corp : legends such as ‘ ES/9000 — a large body and a small brain led this animal to become extinct ’ . |
| 11 | So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day . |
| 12 | It 's alright to park erm a non police car but there was a policeman actually sitting in the car while two of them loitered in there . |
| 13 | Although incredibly irritating with his overstated Ocker accent ( Australian Cockney — ‘ Beaut mate ’ , ‘ Let's crack open a tinny , mate ’ , ‘ Jeez mate , that 's a beaut Sheila ’ ) , Joe Mangle is the laddish but new manish gardener-next-door in Ramsay Street who everyone laughs at yet sympathises with . |
| 14 | These early pension schemes were all rewards for loyalty to a narrow group of white collar staff , whose salaries were insufficient to allow them to retire like more prosperous middle-class professionals . |
| 15 | This line of thinking , however , seems to me to miss at least one major point . |
| 16 | They did n't seem to mind me hanging in there , but it was getting a bit like the ocean liner scene in the Marx brothers ' Night at the Opera . |
| 17 | For example , a survey of 1,800 working women in France might show that 38% read at least one magazine weekly , and a similar survey in West Germany of 940 working women showed that 47% of them read at least one magazine weekly . |
| 18 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 19 | Let them wait for once . |
| 20 | It 'll take all the for them to come from where they 're coming from . |
| 21 | If you 've got them scattered about all over the place , it makes it much more difficult to try and save them , and , later on , get the data back in . |
| 22 | On the evening of March 26 there will be a celebratory dinner at the Campana Restaurant in Marylebone High Street for everyone involved to really let their hair down . |
| 23 | The courier had orders for them to repair at once to Edinburgh , where the Regent was to summon an urgent Council . |
| 24 | A lot of them want to just talk , to feel secure that they 've seen a policeman . |
| 25 | I have preferred Irish humour ever since I heard of the Dublin man visiting London who wrote to his wife … ‘ and if you do not receive this letter you are to let me know at once ! ’ |
| 26 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 27 | I guess what I would really like is if I could get my own club and have everyone come to where I was ! |
| 28 | So there 's nothing to worry about as far as sharps or flats go . |
| 29 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 30 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |