Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 2 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 3 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 4 | He 'd cut my fingers off if I used it . |
| 5 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 6 | ‘ Mike , you deliberately loosened my ropes more than you needed to . |
| 7 | I would n't hesitate for a moment to lie my teeth off if it was either useful or necessary . |
| 8 | so on a Sunday I used to say right I 'm not gon na take my tablets today because it 's a waste of a tablet if you 're gon na eat like that , and on a Sunday I used to be absolutely exhausted because you take them all the time and they keep you going and then when you stop taking them they 've just , you wind down |
| 9 | Better get my pyjamas on before they get , before daddy gets |
| 10 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 11 | I always emphasise my eyes more than any other feature . |
| 12 | I emphasise my eyes more than any other feature |
| 13 | I closed my eyes tightly because this silly new pain was going to make me cry . |
| 14 | The sound rang in my ears long after he had fallen asleep : when Richard sat beside me as I lay on our bed , I thought I could still hear him through the wall . |
| 15 | ‘ Who does that belong to ? ’ he asks , and I squeeze my legs together as though to resist him , and it feels good ; so good that my back arches . |
| 16 | So that 's one of my hobbies , I do n't know whether I 'll be going to Nepal or anywhere like that again , but it , I 've certainly got er lots of happy memories of that experience and er I 've brought erm a photo album erm with some of my pictures in if anyone would like to have a look |
| 17 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll have to ask Granny For&am to let me clean my shoes again when I get to her cottage , ’ she told herself , as she picked her way between the puddles and muddy ruts of the lane . |
| 20 | I did put my shoes on cos I thought I sha n't get them on in a minute because my feet swell when I sit down . |
| 21 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas or have him look forward to my visits simply because he knows I 'll arrive bearing gifts . ’ |
| 22 | I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable . |
| 23 | A searching moment indicated that it was my motives rather than her welfare that were under question . |
| 24 | I use these three then I 'll put my thingies in cos I ca n't be bothered to erm change . |
| 25 | ‘ I started my classes mainly because I got lonely sitting up in my workshop all day and because going to a class is how I started . |
| 26 | I prefer working alone with my ideas rather than with other people |
| 27 | I do n't believe I would ever have found my insects again if I had n't had a printed picture of the complete set of their evolutionary precursors , and even then it was difficult and tedious . |
| 28 | This will be alarming for team mates who worry desperately about my abilities even when there is not the pressure of big money involved . |
| 29 | I still reserve the right at any time to doubt the solutions furnished by the modulor , keeping intact my freedom which must depend upon my feelings rather than my reason . |
| 30 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |