Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercifully for us they had gold leaf in plenty ’ . |
| 2 | In fact Gilbert 's Act of 1782 , remembered mostly as one which permitted parishes to unite for Poor Law purposes without undergoing the expensive process of incorporating through a private act of parliament , was equally significant in its effective sanctioning of the subsidising of wages from the poor rates for the able-bodied who were to be removed from workhouses and found work . |
| 3 | Fortunetellers make educated guesses too — mostly about what they think their ‘ subject ’ would like to hear . |
| 4 | Goody , then , sees the activities of Pythagoras and his followers as quite different from the flowering of logic , scientific clarity , lack of ambiguity , scepticism etc. for which he praises classical Greece . |
| 5 | As I was saying to me mam like , all these John Major and that , they 're all going on about what they 're gon na do . |
| 6 | I thought you were supposed to be finding out what he was working on , not going on about what he might or might not have done with Suzanne Regan . ’ |
| 7 | of course goes on about what he always goes on about and er I would remind him that the supplementary estimates which is in the amendment here , is also in the amended motion which is proposed by the Conservatives and had all party support on every committee that it 's come to . |
| 8 | you move on about what you did then as your next |
| 9 | you 're always going on about what you want |
| 10 | Yeah and Ann was on about it you see and I said oh well some noisy bloody neighbours and I and I said oh well it 's like your telly in n it ! |
| 11 | On and on about it he was when we walked up to the bridge . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to get the truth out of my wife , and if I find out there 's anything going on between you I 'll be back here to use you as a punchbag ! |
| 13 | I think we need to say , okay , in the future , what are we , the town , gon na do , to make this building right for what we want for the town . |
| 14 | The Cockcroft Committee pointed out that , for pupils with very low scores in GCE and CSE examinations , much could be said about what they do n't know , but little about what they do know . |
| 15 | Although a considerable amount of generalized research on use has been carried out , many librarians still know relatively little about what their users want . |
| 16 | But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook . |
| 17 | If you think a little about it you will be able to convince yourself that Rk is nothing other than the old familiar resistance ( proportional to length ; inversely proportional to cross-section ) derived in a different manner . |
| 18 | At last finding someone to move so their love did n't have to be separated they started to do things which the middle-aged woman in the tweed suit would not have approved of , luckily for her she had dismounted earlier . |
| 19 | Luckily for him they had decided to be married in Cork before going out to Palestine . |
| 20 | It was a 15- to 20-footer , and luckily for me it went in . |
| 21 | We 've already had a couple of plonkers sending us demonstration games from the Shoot-Em-Up Construction Kit , but luckily for them we spotted the offending articles ( not difficult ) . |
| 22 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 23 | Luckily for us someone really wanted them to be here . |
| 24 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 25 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 26 | It was impossible for the skipper to get out " , although I put his parachute on for him he remained at the controls and ordered the crew to bale out . |
| 27 | er and of course the gold award erm older guys next year 's team then can go on for their their gold . |
| 28 | Erm I think I 've learnt how to do it , it 's fairly straightforward but er him having tied the leader on for me I wo n't have to go back to him anyway for quite some time . |
| 29 | Go to a pushbike shop they whip them off and whip them on for you you buy , you know , if you go out and buy one then just take wheel with you they 'll stick them straight on . |
| 30 | you , no they 're not putting their coats on , they 've gone to the toilet , Richard can go to the toilet by himself actually ca n't he ? he 's a clever boy is n't he ? can you get your coat for me ? , you get your coat now , I 'll put it on for you I hope you have n't broken that , have you ? , pick it up , carefully give it to me look |