Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It caused me little inconvenience and even less pain and I was still able to manoeuvre myself into reasonable position and qualify for the final . |
| 2 | A lot of mums , however , still lay out their twenty-year-old 's washed and ironed clothes on the bed for them each morning and continuously clean up after them , catering for their every need . |
| 3 | They first of all say they want local government to be more responsible , to be more trusted , to have more freedom , I then give them that freedom and then they complain that I 'm not telling local government what to do and I do n't intend to lay down every detail of what they should do . |
| 4 | Ehm , Bank Holiday August , well were going with them that weekend cos like . |
| 5 | Thus the capitalists have economic power , controlling and exploiting the worker , and this also gives them political power as well . |
| 6 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 7 | I 'm going to give them another hour and then that 's it — they can all go home . |
| 8 | Yo go on you can tell me this joke and then you can finish . |
| 9 | To us it is clear that it was the forms of social organisation in which such evidence was carried that gave them this quality and not the intrinsic nature of the evidence itself . |
| 10 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 11 | She 'll need me some day and then she 'll be quick enough to write to her mother . |
| 12 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 13 | I 'll I 'll try and rewrite my erm this is something that is not a problem , every time I write a letter it or write my introductory letter it comes out different , so I 'll try and simplify my introductory letter as well , I think we 'll get a bigger uptake , |
| 14 | She left me with my adoptive mother and just disappeared . |
| 15 | It 's a compliment , by the way : Philippa is my next-door neighbour and startlingly beautiful . |
| 16 | ‘ I needed a pain-killing injection in my right elbow and then the abductor muscle in my groin went . |
| 17 | Are you gon na keep that on my right shopping as well ? |
| 18 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 19 | I wear mine on my right hand as well but then I am odd in all sorts of ways . ’ |
| 20 | After the mass murderer hit the deck , I got up and , resisting the temptation to fold my left forearm over my right elbow , make a prong of the middle finger of my right hand and then lift it in Quigley 's face while telling him he was a motherfucking asshole , I went to the door . |
| 21 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 22 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 23 | Publications : Heterosexual Strain in Modern English Literature , The Ern Malley Affair , Sins of My Old Age and Earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ Sins of My Old Age and Earlier ? |
| 25 | The autobiography — Sins of My Old Age and Earlier he had already dipped into , and he went back to it reluctantly for a more systematic reading . |
| 26 | Pain relief is essential , but I would like my thrombolytic therapy as well . |
| 27 | I raised my free wing and nearly caught him with it and he called out in alarm . |
| 28 | Some were part of my social life as well , even if this was simply lunching together in the staff canteen or dropping into the pub for a drink on the way home . |
| 29 | Indeed , it has taken me more than three years to cast off my British cynicism and truly comprehend the value of freedom in America . |
| 30 | ( A coppa was my favourite treat but unfortunately I could not afford it very often . ) |