Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 2 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 3 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 4 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 5 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |
| 6 | It did n't take me long to find out otherwise . |
| 7 | Besides , it did n't take me long to figure out I was wrong . ’ |
| 8 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 9 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 10 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 11 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 12 | The process of scientific research is therefore a continuous one , and seen in this light sociology accumulates its findings and brings them together to build up its generalizations and , if possible , laws of social behaviour . |
| 13 | Is there anything in the constitution anywhere , cos I happily to go along with that if it 's written in |
| 14 | Burning brands from the huts and from two galleys the MacIans had fired were seized and thrown into the MacIans ' own ships , to draw some of them away to put out the fires . |
| 15 | After I have cut , straightened and sharpened the stakes I put them away to dry out and stiffen — to season — before they are used . |
| 16 | Still , as long as you 're not thinking about makin' me your fancy piece , I 'll do me best to stand up brave to the world . ’ |
| 17 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 18 | ‘ The best thing for all of us is for me just to go back to London . |
| 19 | He told me just to run around and do some starts , which is the way I guess most athletes begin when they join a club . |
| 20 | The council told me just to stay there the weekend . |
| 21 | I went to the doctor on the Saturday and he said it was gastroenteritis and prescribed tablets for me for it and told me just to keep up my fluids so I did n't get dehydrated . |
| 22 | The innkeepers — I had enough Spanish to recognize their curious Patagonian accent , all rolling rs and glottal stops — took me outside to show off a baby rhea they kept in a pen . |
| 23 | As the JMU random visit programme goes into its second year we need to find better ways of isolating the representative results from those of the reactive , com-plaint-led , visits , and learn to interpret them statistically to build up a reliable picture of the auditing profession , its strengths and weaknesses . |
| 24 | Nevertheless we must delight in computers as our processing slaves and we must promote them rapidly to do more and more thinking — stopping short of allowing ourselves to become slaves to them . |
| 25 | Bless them , she thought fondly , it must have taken them forever to save up for it from their meagre pocket money . |
| 26 | Alistair said , ‘ And then you want me quickly to buy as many publicly held shares as possible . ’ |
| 27 | An affected young man with acne ordered me curtly to get out . |
| 28 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |
| 29 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
| 30 | Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought . |