Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long would it take me to drive up there ? ’ |
| 2 | You did say was I going to the Swimming Gala on Monday and if I wanted to go along with them to go round before , at least the granny said to go round , but I said I was n't sure what I was doing . ’ |
| 3 | Well there 's a thing going round a few years ago were n't there with these models , just pay for them to go out there |
| 4 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 5 | He did n't need me building up yet more false hopes which did nothing except try his patience . |
| 6 | After all , she had nothing to go on apart from what Terry Lewis had told her , and she knew what a liar he was . |
| 7 | And I 've nothing to report on either the trains or the buses . |
| 8 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
| 9 | You see , I know my father would have wished me to carry on just now . ’ |
| 10 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 11 | Now I do n't wan na , want me to prattle on much more tonight , if it 's not worth speaking about , I think it 's probably about enough |
| 12 | So you wo n't be able to wear his bottom ones out will he cos he ai n't got nothing to grind on now ! |
| 13 | Everyone shuts up now . |
| 14 | The Americans expected it and so it prepared them to sit down quietly and listen to speech . |
| 15 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 16 | ‘ If I missed a green light he would shout at me to go through anyway , ’ continues Ted . |
| 17 | half G T half G T squared plus some constant times time normally your the the G will be a negative half A T squared but someone had said come up with that equation , and you 've said well what are you going to give me to go on well the acceleration 's constant . |
| 18 | Want me to go up there ? |
| 19 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 20 | And then everything goes wrong when he ca n't get me to go round there and pinch it . ’ |
| 21 | Do n't want me to go over yet . |
| 22 | ‘ Want me to go out again ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 23 | ‘ Does — does Mr — er — Señor de Santis want me to go out there ? ’ |
| 24 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 25 | ‘ You can not ask me to go back there ! ’ |
| 26 | Then he told me to go back home and explain to Mum . |
| 27 | ‘ YOU WANT me to talk about Irish history , you want me to go back that far , do you ? ’ asks Neil Jordan , not wanting to believe it . |
| 28 | Oh for me to go down there . |
| 29 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 30 | Eliot saw the point , and asked me to sit down forthwith and draft a synopsis . |