Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A related question is whether each processor should execute its own programme , or if instructions from one programme should be broadcast to all processors , thereby allowing them all to execute the same programme with different data . |
| 2 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |
| 3 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Lawler will be upset that I 'm only bringing him eight brace , but I did my best , ’ Maggie said as they pulled away . |
| 5 | Many Japanese families today are sitting down to enjoy a meal of dolphin , perhaps eating it raw , or salted and pickled in miso , or dried with seasonings and made into sausage . |
| 6 | But the next day was doleful : Mr Evans in a bad mood because he had eaten too much and Auntie Lou tiptoeing about for fear of making things worse and so annoying him further . |
| 7 | She 's literally keeping me alive . |
| 8 | And what good value it was , it was only costing them hundred and |
| 9 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 10 | Er it was , and he was only paying him twenty two pound a week at the time . |
| 11 | Perhaps sending them direct to me will save the listserver from getting clogged up with train spotting messages . |
| 12 | so I was n't er but sure about taking the students whether put it in , but they 're only sending me four I think two for a month |
| 13 | well no , I 'm only wearing me bloody coat and the skirt and er grey tights that 's all , er whatever up top I mean I hope that , have a look , I hope it 's gon na be a better bus anyway this week |
| 14 | He was only getting him little gigs here and there and you would n't call him a dynamic person . |
| 15 | If the hair is chemically processed too often , it might break so treating it first will prevent it becoming very dry and damaged . |
| 16 | Brando said , ‘ Why , you sonofabitch , ’ and I said , ‘ Well , up yours too , pal , ’ and then he was suddenly giving me all of it , and I could do no wrong . |
| 17 | Yeah , then you better pricing it low and getting rid of it then too high and . |
| 18 | Well , we 've I would like we 're basically giving you all your cow requirement and all your oil requirement . |
| 19 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 20 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 21 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 22 | →Yeah , but you 're only giving us half the story . |
| 23 | Hon. Members from the Democratic Unionist party are constantly asking me that question . |
| 24 | Zen sat there unhappily taking it all in . |
| 25 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 26 | Leguminous green manures , such as clover and beans , fix atmospheric nitrogen in the soil by means of their root nodules , so making it available to plants later in the growing season . |
| 27 | Many people do not realise just how much they are being charged as most financial advisers make their money via commission , which is normally obscured , so making it difficult to work out what the true cost is . |
| 28 | In the parable of the sower the thorns which choke the growing seed so making it barren are the ‘ worldly cares and the false glamour of wealth ’ ( Matt. |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know anything about the Bamford Hunt , ’ Meredith said , suddenly finding him unattractive and pushy , his manner hectoring , and disliking both the way he assumed she would agree with him and the arrogance he displayed in failing to give any reason why she should do as he asked . |
| 30 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |