Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell . |
| 2 | ‘ A hospital is a system designed to enable me to treat as many patients as possible with the aid of specialised equipment , nursing care , etc . |
| 3 | I think he just wants to keep putting it off ; he might be frightened of me gaining too much independence , or he might simply be scared that I 'll kill myself the way a lot of youths seem to when they get a bike . |
| 4 | And I expended so much energy making it beautiful for you ! ’ |
| 5 | Through the Second Son I asked as many questions as I thought sensible and it did n't sound like any malaria I had ever heard of . |
| 6 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 7 | I did n't have any more whiskey as I needed to think , so I made even more tea and settled on the chair again by the fire , lit a cigarette and started to work my way through the file again . |
| 8 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 9 | I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I made so many mistakes about you . |
| 11 | I made very little money , just enough to run my car . |
| 12 | " So I made this little bite for you myself . " |
| 13 | Consider in this connection the point I made earlier that comprehension is necessarily incomplete and dependent on purpose . |
| 14 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 15 | But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty . |
| 16 | I mean always some book |
| 17 | I suppose , also , I have — well , one person in particular whose timekeeping is n't great — I mean obviously this sort of job it 's not important to be there on the dot of nine , but I think sometimes she slides . |
| 18 | personally I , I , I felt , I mean so many people have been uncommitted and the Garrick |
| 19 | But I mean basically that sort of contract you want to complete . |
| 20 | ‘ No , Prentice ; I mean too much taste . |
| 21 | Well , well I think I would , I would rath it I mean i it they 've got the responsibility to whistle blow now , you know , professional they 've got , er you know , they 're they these are professionals and they should , they should whistle blow and I mean Maxwell is a perfect example of how nobody , nobody blew the whistle and if you read through the writs , those lots of these people knew what were what was happening an and the whistle should have been blown and I see no reason why the why the pension regulator is going to get any different , different response and also I mean really these people are being in many cases given by th given information by their clients , you know , and I think it 's a very difficult situation to turn round to , to somebody like Mr Maxwell and say well look I 'm terribly sorry Mr Maxwell , we 're going to report you to the pensions regulator , you know and I think that , that er you will just find that that I just do n't feel that the pension regulator in , in that respect , I mean I , I think that I might like to if Peter suggested a pension fraud squad that , that had a open telephone line and the same sort of er powers as the Serious Fraud Office you know , so that if er anybody in a pension fund could , could ring a number and er and people absolutely descended th that , I mean they ge they say somewhere in the report that the pension regulator is going to have er powers and monies to do spot checks . |
| 22 | I realized then that nationalization , the great the great nationalization enterprise was simply state capitalism . |
| 23 | ‘ I eat very little lunch . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Not that it was much use , I 'm afraid ; I met so many people the faces were just a blur . ’ |
| 25 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |
| 26 | ‘ Ca n't I stay here this time ? ’ |
| 27 | I had a dairy before , it 's just been updated a wee bit because I make slightly more cheeses than I used to make and it 'll make it er easier hopefully . |
| 28 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 29 | When I explained , I got even less sympathy : ‘ Of all the stupid things . |
| 30 | I got home that night full of excitement , a state which was quickly changed when my mother discovered that I was well and truly inundated with horse fleas . |