Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 2 | Of course these are habits , of course everyone does these things , that is not the point ! ’ |
| 3 | The first is that what you say seems obvious ; so , in slight embarrassment , you add " obviously " or " of course " — implying " of course everyone knows this " . |
| 4 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 5 | ‘ We have to raise money ourselves to do any outings , we 're given a very small budget so we have fund raising events , and the clients have total say about how we use that . ’ |
| 6 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 7 | Of course — he pulled himself together a bit — as a scientist I find all these phenomena extremely interesting . |
| 8 | Well there are ways are n't there I mean even in traditionally , I mean what of wet-nursing I mean that 's an example is n't it where a woman gets another woman to do the job for her . |
| 9 | In Blake 's terminology someone scoring 1 on the ‘ results ’ scale is described as a ‘ country club manager ’ ; the opposite 9,1 style is characteristic of the dictator . |
| 10 | All I can say is that I failed , and in this particular case I regret that failure . ’ |
| 11 | I begin to really hate men and do n't want to get close to them in case I get hurt again . |
| 12 | Right then you know where you are I always I always have a pie with me just in case I get hungry . |
| 13 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 14 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 15 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 16 | This is really this is really just in case I fall asleep . |
| 17 | And I think I 'll stop right there with even more comments , erm , in case I lose that contract too . |
| 18 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 19 | In this particular case I used wild roses , plus their buds and leaves . |
| 20 | But I think a lot of them were genuinely concerned , as in my case I think this person was genuinely worried about me because I 'd had , it was my third child and I I do think she was er worried about me because er you know you do n't want to keep having babies and losing them but I was n't worried about , I was worried about myself , to say I was n't worried that 's stupid , but er we just hoped and hoped and kept hoping . |
| 21 | In our case I believe this stems both from the traditions of our company and also from the fact that we are a technical and scientifically based company : we therefore have the respect for the individual and the respect for novel ideas emanating from others that is a feature of the scientific method . |
| 22 | Into this category I put such obvious improvements as eliminating sexism from textbooks , other curriculum materials and examinations . |
| 23 | Chairman I think those were the main , main points that were mentioned . |
| 24 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 25 | As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers . |
| 26 | I , I mean er yes as soon as , when you start making political change I think that 's revolution really , I mean you 're , you 're not |
| 27 | It was the Slippery Elm bark I think that 's what it was called . |
| 28 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 29 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 30 | In addition I feel well enough physically and to be honest I think I 've a good chance of at least two wins tomorrow . ’ |