Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most travellers consider them irritatingly slow over distances of more than 150 metres . |
| 2 | Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle . |
| 3 | He had married the daughters of several important Muslim chiefs and was in frequent communication with the " Mad Mullah " in Somaliland , supplying him with rifles and ammunition to help in his long drawn out war against the British . |
| 4 | I fondly imagined little Doris among her busy lizzies and lazy susans , in racoon hat and frontier dungarees , working the pump , fixing the roof , with half-a-dozen nails and a couple of briar pipes in her syrupy mouth . |
| 5 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 6 | Cone I just comment briefly chairman . |
| 7 | ‘ You think I just come up de Clyde on a banana boat ? ’ she asked . |
| 8 | Every so often I just block out time and disappear , so no one can get hold of me . |
| 9 | Can I can I just go back hotel sales , is that where they supply er |
| 10 | For a while , maybe a decade , I just hung there upside down . |
| 11 | If it 's off then I just walk off stage and go ‘ Eeyaahh ! ’ and that 's it . |
| 12 | It was in A flat , and we 'd done two or three cuts on it , but on this particular cut I just got absolutely bonkers , just got lost , but somehow or other I came out of it and that 's the one Elvis picked . |
| 13 | I just carried on training and waited for the team to return from America and the post-Olympic meeting at Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | I just put down Ex-Soldier and never did change it , even when he came in a couple of minutes later with his canvas bag over his shoulder . |
| 15 | Can I just come back Chair , and I recognize obviously there is er , further work that 's going on with this and support that it does , but there is a case with the Parliamentary Ombudsman in discipline on this at the moment , so on the way in which it 's been handled by the Ministry . |
| 16 | I just wonder when Mr asks for other figures from the independent sector what would have happened if the figures that you 've got before you today had actually come from the private sector . |
| 17 | I once got up Iago in three days when I was in rep . |
| 18 | two pints , two pints of beer before lunch mind you times were hard , that 's why I did n't bother having any thing , I always went home weekends and got stocked up and every thing , every other one we got boarders in |
| 19 | I always know when people are near . |
| 20 | The only colour 's the blue you know but it 's er I always make so noise with anybody 's paper . |
| 21 | ‘ My family and I always argue over looks and clothes . |
| 22 | I always do when Jerome drives . |
| 23 | Sine then , whatever the frame , I 've rarely had them off my nose , to the extent that I began to hide defiantly behind them , never fighting being four-eyed except in specs and a ball gown , when I always feel decidedly Everage . |
| 24 | You know Alec er , Alec comes up and informs me and I always say well Alec how are things , urgh , do you want the good news or bad news first sort of thing |
| 25 | ‘ If Mr Stening reflects the standard of your employees , I totally understand why Rentokil is so successful . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I still remember how Cinzia Miletti treated you that evening at Crepi 's . ’ |
| 27 | I still think highely Cuntano though — ca n't see myself throwing away my ‘ French connection ’ t-shirt … |
| 28 | The beautiful BELLA remains my ever welcoming ever tail wagging four legged companion , and is currently snoring not very beautifully — must be great gangs of rabbits in the dreams or something . |
| 29 | I usually get round people like that though because if somebody said that |
| 30 | I also noticed how Corin and Alleyn , once we had reached Royston , switched their allegiance to him . |