Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to leave them some to swim in before we catch them . |
| 2 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ she said with relief , ‘ Doctor Jenner left the university in 1982 , that 's the year I first came here so I never really got to meet him . |
| 4 | I was alright when I first came in because I 'm under the doctor under the h hospital at the moment . |
| 5 | But I had to do my own asking round before I found a place to visit . |
| 6 | These two species could really be described as ideal fish for the ornamental pond , being widely available , hardy , active and brightly coloured making them easy to see even if the pond water is slightly cloudy . |
| 7 | Nothing much happened just before we left . |
| 8 | A total of 1.727 million birds was recorded , with almost 1 million of these at six major sites : the Wash , Ribble , Dee , Morecambe Bay , Humber and Thames , which each recorded more than 100,000 each . |
| 9 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 10 | Are you supposed to wait here till they find you ? ’ |
| 11 | On the other hand , if Cindy Hill was genuinely missing , who better to find out where she had gone — or been taken — than the police ? |
| 12 | She added : ‘ Thank God you two came along when you did . |
| 13 | And there is room for them all to do better than each other . |
| 14 | She pictured them all staring up as she came in and Michael Swinton giving rapid orders to Punch as he had done before , and saw herself putting her basket on the table and showing him what she had brought , the taste and spirit of Christmas from Bishopstow , from her house , her own establishment . |
| 15 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
| 16 | With Uncle 's help we all struggled on after he died , and when I got a bit older and left school it was not possible for me to contemplate leaving home to find a job and a new life outside Baldersdale . |
| 17 | We all complained bitterly when it looked as though Adobe was restricting the development of PostScript and keeping the market to itself . |
| 18 | Mr Willis said : ‘ Trade unionism is based on the belief that we all work better when we work together . |
| 19 | However , there is no doubt that we all fly better if we fly regularly and it is a good policy to fly whenever you have the opportunity . |
| 20 | where we were trying desperately to have schools because we had no schools when we first came here as I say . |
| 21 | The teacher said , ‘ We 'll need to find something circular to draw round so we can cut some nice round shapes for our wheels . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There 's something special going on when a chap pulls out his chequebook and writes you a cheque for £13,000 right there in the car park , ’ he enthuses . |
| 23 | and we both come back because the buses are quite convenient , they seem |
| 24 | The tangled web of committees seemed to him likely to retard rather than accelerate development , and he hoped that clearer BEA responsibility would , as their headquarters staff were built up , lead to quicker progress . |
| 25 | They all went out except for Father Martin who closed the door and sat on the bed . |
| 26 | Because when I first got my glasses they all went ‘ Ha , ha , four eyes ’ for about a week or so , and then they all shut up because they forgot about it . ’ |
| 27 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 28 | It was such a childish action that they all laughed again before he said , while striking a pose , ‘ You have a lot to learn Mr Farrier . ’ |
| 29 | They all looked up when the Dodger and Oliver entered . |
| 30 | So we decided to take a look at some of the alternatives available — with one proviso , they all cost less than £10 . |