Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea . |
| 2 | And where would I most like to spend the rest of the day ? |
| 3 | One part of me , despite George Crowninshield 's reassurances , anticipated that the twins would emerge as shambling twitching wrecks , and for a second , believing my worst fears , I bitterly regretted accepting the senator 's charter . |
| 4 | ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me . |
| 5 | I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries . |
| 6 | In 1976 and 1977 I published a number of papers in pragmatics , and these I eventually revised to make a book , Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics , published by John Benjamins ( Amsterdam ) in 1980 . |
| 7 | I merely seek to end a war . |
| 8 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 9 | In the meantime I merely want to emphasise the point I was making about change . |
| 10 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 11 | Oh I better start getting the dinner ready for tomorrow . |
| 12 | The C Mixolydian scale run in bar 5 and the tremolo picked closing phrase should be alternate picked throughout — I personally prefer to start the scale run and each of the tremolo picked notes with a down-stroke — but you should remember to experiment and use whatever picking scheme works best for you . |
| 13 | This is the only occasion when I personally remember seeing a wicketkeeper coming on to bowl and it may be the earliest such occasion in a first-class game . |
| 14 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 15 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 16 | but er , I do n't I , I obviously gone have a way of doing this , but erm , it 's difficult , if you , if you 're at the bottom of the |
| 17 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 18 | This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it . |
| 19 | ‘ I only intend to stay a few minutes . |
| 20 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 21 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 22 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 23 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
| 24 | I only started to make the links when the dampness started to affect my mental health . |
| 25 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 26 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 27 | Well if I only wanted to know the crossword and every single one is |
| 28 | I only wanted to get a few comments about Froggy . |
| 29 | Call me an egotistical slime , but I only want to preserve the purity and integrity of the current alternative , and hope that it wo n't pass through the mass-media grinder into the mainstream , where it will eventually be recalled as one more passive , stupid fashion . |
| 30 | I only need to carry a few tubes of paint and some water in an old squash bottle , all packed into my fisherman 's box which doubles for a seat , and my paper masking-taped down to my board . |