Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phone — Office again to let me know that free school meals have been confirmed for pupil B. Back to typing . |
| 2 | In August I revealed that Prime Minister 's son James Major had a £3-an-hour holiday job . |
| 3 | I , hope , too , that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will address the technical problems of billing , particularly carry-over yearly billing , to avoid current confusion with many charge payers , because I regret that separate billing has not increased accountability . |
| 4 | Drawing nearer , I realized that warm air had twisted their outline — they were two men using scythes , no , garden rakes . |
| 5 | But , gradually , I realised that kinky underwear gives me sexual freedom . |
| 6 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 7 | First my father 's plans for my marrying a French princess , precluded my offering you anything more than a clandestine attachment — and now , with the future so uncertain , I fear that clandestine attachment and French princess are each as remote as the other . |
| 8 | I lack that biological instinct which makes most women want to reproduce themselves , especially when they are in their thirties and feel they might be leaving things a bit late . |
| 9 | ‘ I met that young man Billy Sullivan in the park the other day , ’ Annie said casually , wanting to glean some information about him . |
| 10 | Well it does n't really matter because I got and unused socket here . |
| 11 | I hate that black velvet on the chairs and sofa . |
| 12 | After tonight , I realise that real life is what matters . |
| 13 | Have nasty moment in bathroom before I realise that recycled bog paper is full of eccentric imperfections . |
| 14 | I tried that 26-letter word on my ‘ spellchecker ’ : it paused for a moment , then put up its hands with ‘ sorry , no suggestions ’ . |
| 15 | I expect that experienced knitter will have tried most , if not all , of these but I know that there are lots of new knitters who have not . |
| 16 | I found that moderate slip angles produce no nasty consequences , but was restrained from further experimentation with the admonition that the aircraft describes what sounds like a brisk departure into a fast outside flick roll with the nose going hard down to exceed its negative-g limit . |
| 17 | In October I reported that British designer Carolyn Quartermaine had landed a top assignment with an internationally known New York-based designer . |
| 18 | With this in mind , when considering situations where there are questions about very long term service lives , I suggest that current construction methods should not make it too difficult to incorporate any presently unthought of developments that might materialise in the future — be this in 20 or even 100 years time ! |
| 19 | Venturing to propound a law of intellectual life , I suggest that evaluative criticism enters institutional literary study under the influence of practising writers , or of critics who have a close discipular relation to them , but that in time it is rejected , like an alien organ . |
| 20 | How was I to know that stupid woman would call the police ? ’ |
| 21 | If I used that particular eyepiece on my 76-mm refractor , I would still obtain a magnification of around × 600 — but the image would be so faint that it would be completely useless . |
| 22 | I assumed that open string resonance must be enhanced by this . |
| 23 | ‘ I told that miserable bloke who looks after the lorries the same fing meself , ’ she told her friends . |
| 24 | ‘ But as soon as someone says that four-letter word , it will be ‘ do you have to use that language ? ’ |
| 25 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 26 | How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions ! |
| 27 | At this unhappy moment , I recalled that mysterious sentence , ‘ Wallace and Darwin did not know it , but there are alternatives . ’ |
| 28 | I imagine that rearranging furniture will give me room to think more spaciously . |
| 29 | True , four track is a mite limiting , but I imagine that live performance was again uppermost in Roland 's mind here . |
| 30 | I feel like I done when Slippery Sun |