Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 2 | Zeppelin airships had been developed before the outbreak of war and , in 1915 , the enemy used them to carry out bombing raids on London ; also the German submarine ‘ U ’ boats sank a civilian ocean liner , named the Lusitania with the loss of 1,198 lives , including many citizens of the United States of America . |
| 3 | With the Technical Branch based at Southampton it was very convenient for them to carry out maintenance and to turn the engines over occasionally during the cold weather . |
| 4 | It also helps them build up market research techniques — required in the technology section of the National Curriculum — as well as developing planning , advertising , promotion and interviewing skills . |
| 5 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 6 | This is a much slower atmospheric change than lungs , of course , and is suited to the confined and restricted conditions of a ‘ soil atmosphere ’ , which is just what we need for them to breathe in poison . |
| 7 | This is something everyone wonders when starting out , even if they are not intending to make a living out of acting . |
| 8 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , it just goes to the bottom of the pack , but erm there 's numbers up there , you 've got ta collect them to spell out sex maniac |
| 10 | ‘ When we get home , go up to bed , and later I will have them send up gruel , ’ said Dinah . |
| 11 | ‘ You can let me know tomorrow morning if he cuts your throat , ’ said Joe . |
| 12 | Let me know tomorrow morning , eh ? ’ he said . |
| 13 | In the late Seventies the Ashleys were travelling around so much and had so many different houses that it was hard for them to know where home was . |
| 14 | . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts . |
| 15 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 16 | but when they were ringing I were on phone to John 's mum because there were someone hanging about house , so I talked to John 's mum for ages on phone and then Debbie rang , did n't she ? |
| 17 | ‘ And if they 're not in by tomorrow morning — and I mean tomorrow morning — you can assume that we 'll be buying our photocopying paper elsewhere ! ’ |
| 18 | I mean it 's not packed though , the shops were n't I mean tomorrow morning it 'll be m murder there it 'll be |
| 19 | Yeah find out , I mean exactly sort of trying to find out exactly what it is that they want to think about , suggest , you know |
| 20 | But Lord Zouch , President of the Council , who was no friend to the professional judges there , discounted the notion that they were taking bribes : ‘ I mean not money to any magistrate , ’ he remarked . |
| 21 | ‘ Yeah , she takes , I mean not smack or anything . |
| 22 | I mean not Bronze Age , or whatever , and a calf was eating the grass on the top as though — well , as though it did n't matter . ’ |
| 23 | And , I mean why newsman ? |
| 24 | Yes , I mean certainly storage , I mean is important . |
| 25 | I mean yesterday morning or every day . |
| 26 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 27 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 28 | I mean often acne runs in families as well . |
| 29 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 30 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |