Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CECOS surveyors make it clear that the drinking problem which most concerned them and was undoubtedly of serious proportions in their sample , was by no means confined to men ( indeed their condemnations of drinking mothers are particularly sharp ) but one can certainly detect a mainly female temperance counter-current in the survey , apparently connected to religious observance.21 ( A male informant remembered during the inter-war period " a lady keyboard operator [ who ] used to get out her Bible and have a wee read " , at idle moments . ) |
| 2 | If the floor needs washing , okay , I wo n't wash it , but I know it needs washing and it 'll go on nagging me until I 've washed it — so you ca n't win really . |
| 3 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 4 | And , such is trust , they went on seeing it after it had gone , for by now they were used to the constant and bewildering ebb and flow of Stevenson money . |
| 5 | A patch of lights off to the right revealed the presence of a town which slowly orbited them and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 6 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 7 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 8 | I rarely used them when I was a legitimate student much preferring the local pubs . |
| 9 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 10 | Although the lack of signposts made it difficult to locate the road to Rennes-le-Chateau , I eventually found it and trudged the 4.7km to the village . |
| 11 | He pulled her to the ground and indecently assaulted her but abandoned the attack after the woman screamed and bit him several times on one hand . |
| 12 | But , it was said , he took him to his flat and indecently assaulted him while two other men looked on . |
| 13 | The letter went on to inform her that she was welcome to continue working with the group in the unlikely event that she would want to . |
| 14 | I 've turned the taps on to refill it and the pressure taps they 're in there till we fill the I was going round , finding trickle here I was going round bleeding all the radiators , the whole system had to be drained down ! |
| 15 | The Report stressed the need for a nationally recognized form of certification and recommended the establishment of an autonomous body for vocational courses in art and design whose validating functions should resemble those of TEC and BEC , thereby enabling it where necessary to devise suitable courses as well as receiving submissions from colleges . |
| 16 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 17 | She goes on to accuse him and the others of , as it were , defining themselves into respectability : ‘ They are not prepared to count as concept or understanding anything which does not involve speech . ’ |
| 18 | He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella . |
| 19 | The new decision does not affect the artist 's ownership of the work of art itself , but it does effectively strip him or her of control over how , when and where it may be reproduced . |
| 20 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 21 | And I 'd much prefer it if that did n't happen . |
| 22 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |
| 23 | So we built this snowman round this rock and this car came back cos he came he just came in to hit it and he burst into and broke his bumper . |
| 24 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 25 | She 'd come in to see me when she was dressed — always with so many jewels . |
| 26 | Wilson took the baby in to see her as soon as she was about and he was admired but , she fancied , with some sense of distancing . |
| 27 | I came in to see you but you were n't in so . |
| 28 | You do n't suddenly go blind for the duration of a ‘ phone call and are , therefore , prey to all sorts of visual distractions — people walking past the window , someone coming in to see you and so on . |
| 29 | Lots of ladies come in to see us and say : ‘ It 's a shame you did n't marry . ’ |
| 30 | About midday on 29th. the Navy in Malta suddenly asked me whether I could search along the Greek coast for the remnants of the Italian Fleet which was believed to be escaping northwards . |