Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How about the new 0–0-10 system where everyone plays up front and tries to score — at least we may score and a result is better than another bloody draw . |
| 2 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 3 | Well , I suggest someone nips over next door to see if we can borrow a room — that is , if it is felt that we need actually to discuss anything more . " |
| 4 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 5 | they 're fractions , they do n't look like fractions , if someone writes down sixty per cent you think , that 's not a fraction , I ca n't see any , with |
| 6 | It is helpful if somebody points out such mistakes to you . |
| 7 | Which is a great pity , because if one cuts out all the Freudian claptrap , Abse has produced a brilliant character analysis of the Prime Minister , and of the whole Thatcher phenomenon , which succeeded in scaring the wits out of me . |
| 8 | If one picks out some of the chief things which are good , one may find that the one thing they seem to have in common is that they are pleasurable experiences . |
| 9 | No one puts up any signs to say what 's happening , and the heating just gets turned down . |
| 10 | Because we all our production costs commissions everything comes out that first year 's payment . |
| 11 | Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind . |