Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river bottom was ridged sand , a difficult and unkind footing , that combined with the cold and the rush to make me want to go fast while forcing me to go slow . |
| 2 | At cocktail party noise level everyone has to shout simply because everyone is shouting . |
| 3 | The banks too must get involved and everyone needs to work together because if the marriage proves to be a barren one it will affect the wealth of the nation for generations to come . |
| 4 | Nothing has done more than the cruise missiles to divide the peoples of the Atlantic alliance . |
| 5 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 6 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 7 | I 've I 've have been given notice that there is one proposed amendment which I intend to call now because then we can vote on the whole thing |
| 8 | er and in any , in any event there are a number of things I tend to miss altogether if I want to er keep to timetable which I and I , I 'm sure you 're , all the , the audience or group or whatever you like to call it that will welcome an extension of the talk . |
| 9 | what , what I propose to do anyway if it 's agreeable to you |
| 10 | I hesitate to do so because that 's actually a source of difference between us and the County Council . |
| 11 | Oh , alright then , I want to go home as well ! |
| 12 | But now I want to go faster than 1,000 words in six minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 14 | I want to know exactly where I stand . |
| 15 | I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets . |
| 16 | It was time to retire , to return to England-land , to the genteel sheltered accommodation I 'd fled more than a decade earlier . |
| 17 | There is a sense of which that good housekeeping with the inevitable consequences of government policy can be , can be in terms if you like , or benefits to the council tax payers , who have after all in a under the complete disaster of the poll tax which nobody but nobody in this chamber I suspect knew more unless there is at least one partisan tory who will try to save it , it was really a wonderful experiment and it 's a shame it did n't continue . |
| 18 | People from the newspapers foolishly park outside my home on Sundays , I suspect to see either whether I go shopping or whether I go to church . |
| 19 | When I was a little older I enjoyed going there because I was sure of meeting some of the boys I liked , but on these matters Don Cattabianchi was very strict . |
| 20 | I like to co-operate rather than compete |
| 21 | Meanwhile you and I get paid worse than his housekeeper and the fucking union writes to ask me to send them money ! |
| 22 | I remember going upstairs while they were looking at the corpse and writing a note with trembling fingers . |
| 23 | Generally the more expensive books would have gone already and only occasionally did I have to spend more than £5 , often far less . |
| 24 | Thankfully , I decided to go home before I really cracked up . |
| 25 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 26 | I feel frustrated rather than embarrassed , because I want to prove myself to Celtic fans . |
| 27 | I started drinking heavily although the medication has stopped this . |
| 28 | I started coming just after Mike came — that was four seasons ago , and Martin he came two seasons ago and he used to live in the same street as me . ’ |
| 29 | I started dreaming again until I heard footsteps outside . |
| 30 | I thought I 'd like to see how I looked teaching rather than how I thought I looked . |