Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 but I rather gather large people would get everything you see
2 As chairman of this group , I obviously have financial people , accountants , treasury people , lawyers , personnel people , property people and so on who all make part of a team .
3 so he said it 's across the board put four thousand quid 's worth off him the other day and I only give fifty pence off he said so I ca n't do much for you .
4 I only pay twenty percent when
5 I only want two ten-pences. — To keep me stockings up .
6 So I not blame those people here in Britain who support the war and who hope that the allies win .
7 I just hope those fish died from the oil , not some other weird substance they 're messing with here , she thought .
8 I just plant some people own .
9 I just think more people in the media should take the initiative to bring the public 's attention to these problems , ’ Dmitry finally exclaims. ‘ that 's what the media 's for .
10 I just find such people strange though I admit some , like Marlowe , have been great friends .
11 But it 's fine for me because really I grew up in Tembisa and I still know many people there . ’
12 I still know some people there anyway .
13 It is storing up misery for children , and I also think these people went through a lot of misery to get what they wanted .
14 " I do n't believe that this is the time for us to profit from each other 's misery so I hereby cancel all sales of food which have taken place this afternoon .
15 I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing .
16 I really believe more people should learn how to give mouth-to-mouth .
17 Er , that 's why I 'll tell you all , I even tell young people .
18 Personally , I always avoid fishing the corners of waters : I may be wrong but I simply feel that bream avoid such places .
19 I actually like bog-standard goldfish .
20 In order to stop the position deteriorating further , Alan Walker also argues that changes to social security should be monitored closely to prevent further age discrimination through cuts in benefit , which disproportionally affect older people .
21 My right hon. Friend introduced a Bill last week to strengthen the law against those who criminally take other people 's vehicles .
22 One of Murphy 's Laws states that if the statistics do n't prove your point then you obviously need more statistics !
23 If anyone claims to be from the Gas Board , Electricity Board , council , or any such body , keep the chain on the door and tell them that you only admit such people by appointment .
24 Still , you should n't worry about it , mister , I 'll take it off your 'ands , you just keep ten quid of the money .
25 ‘ Yet you still get young people from here arriving in London on a Friday evening thinking it 's going to be easy to find a place to stay in right away .
26 Oh look you always get these people we have just witnessed the top London club suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of .
27 You also get more data type options , including — at long last — memo fields that can hold lots of freeform text , and BLOBs ( Binary Large Objects ) , which are any type of binary data , including graphics , scanned images , spreadsheets , sound or video files .
28 You also leave these people to a rail of hideous nylon tights , with pictures of lions and words like ‘ climb ’ in block capitals transferred inexpertly on to the fabric .
29 To reach it you simply steer 090 ° from Wellington , or 070 ° from Christchurch ; the snag is that Chatham is 413 nm from the former and 475 nm from the latter , rather farther than I was prepared to fly single-engined across the waters of the South Pacific .
30 If you simply insert other people 's material unacknowledged into your own , another danger arises , too : that your writing becomes structurally incoherent ( something we discuss further in Chapter 5 , pp. 109 – 10 ) .
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