Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well those people out on the streets tell me that all the time . |
| 2 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 3 | The policeman knows OK and tells me , but he looks at me funny all the time . |
| 4 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 5 | So I stayed with him for quite while until I was able to tackle my own half a stint , not a full stint , which was nine yards . |
| 6 | its only half an hour so if its not any good in half an hour , its neither here nor there is it ? |
| 7 | It would be difficult for 'er to get back'ards and for'ards , and she were on her own all the time . |
| 8 | Well she 's on her own all the time , see ! |
| 9 | At its best such a book will not only provide a satisfying solution to the murder puzzle which it still must have , but also at the same time the solution of the mystery should reveal finally what it was the novel had to say . |
| 10 | How in the world do you pigeon-hole such an entity ? |
| 11 | But for the man in the street of course or anything does n't give you any such a look ahead information . |
| 12 | And one of the difficulties … is that [ private citizens ] have an innate belief that the government should get everything right all the time . |
| 13 | Say everyone 's encouraged to buy something new all the time . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm not , I 'm not I 'm not putting it on you anyway mostly it 's c mainly fucking Catherine , I 'm beginning to s not like her any more the way she 's going and do n't you dare mention a word of this that I 'm saying to you |
| 15 | He hedge-hopped all the way home . |
| 16 | Preston had more or less given up being a New Man since Carla — it was so difficult to get it right all the time and they kept moving the goalposts — but he still liked to make the right noises . |
| 17 | But I wanted I mean I 'm glad you made the mistake because I wanted you to do it , because I wanted you to do it because as i you know you might you might get it right all the time and then do that in the exam . |
| 18 | In 1983 , Gordon Donaldson published his fascinating All The Queen 's Men . |
| 19 | Then was down in Middlesbrough for a couple of days that week , and er , I think amused everybody by calling it miserable all the time , I dread to think what . |
| 20 | does n't , if it last half an hour |
| 21 | No , no I do n't think I could cos I 'm on me own such a lot , I ca n't , you ca n't make conversation by yourself can ya ? |
| 22 | Yeah cos there 's , on your own all the time and you feel you 've got no time for yourself and that can be fairly bad at times . |
| 23 | You ca n't be on your own all the time , it worries me . ’ |
| 24 | Really I I I just go out mainly , I 'm not , not cos I do n't , I just , I go out because there 's nothing else to do and it 's boring being stuck in on your own all the time ! |
| 25 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |