Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have issued personal protection weapons to construction workers , yet most of them only face danger for the short-term duration of their contracts , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Yet if not all of them necessarily regarded Cnut with disfavour on his accession , it is likely that there were quarters in which he had to face considerable initial hostility . |
| 3 | I rarely take equipment from one country to another , and never if there is a voltage difference as with the United States ( 110 volts ) and Europe ( 240 volts ) . |
| 4 | This reply read : ‘ I duly acknowledge receipt of correspondence sent in respect of children in care and confirm that the mail has now been forwarded accordingly . ’ |
| 5 | Byron Rogers ended his lavishly illustrated piece with the words : ‘ This has been a late twentieth-century fable ’ . |
| 6 | the Secretary of State still had to announce his long awaited decision on the Brynhenllys Inquiry and he rejected British Coal 's appeal for a large site at Pwll Du . |
| 7 | There the I better grab hold of it . |
| 8 | I better get hold of him . |
| 9 | Well there 's been some scepticism about the symbolism of , of weddings there 's also some scepticism about the reality of making that vow forever , er , which I personally have sympathy with cos I do n't see how you can say you 're going to do anything forever , but I suppose if you 've made a vow you 've got to stick with it . |
| 10 | Indeed , Ross thinks the moral philosopher must take the deliverances of common morality as his basic data ( as Moore , in spite of his much proclaimed faith in ‘ common sense ’ did not ) though this is because it rests on intuitions of necessary truth . |
| 11 | From there he moved on to Edinburgh , and finally shut himself away in his much embellished palace of Falkland to die . |
| 12 | His much praised history of a village through different voices , different times and very different writing styles . |
| 13 | By this route Schumpeter arrived at his much quoted definition of what he termed " the democratic method " : |
| 14 | His apparently unflagging zest for life impressed Bowler . |
| 15 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 16 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 17 | I only had time for fast food . |
| 18 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 19 | I only flicked water at you . |
| 20 | I only started work for the exam in February . ’ |
| 21 | I only work part of the week , well , for money . |
| 22 | He said my father can have it , he can do , have it , I only want money for my charity , |
| 23 | " I only want bread-soda for Mrs Fox-Collier 's diamonds . " |
| 24 | I made sure I was well prepared before the big day and I especially took time in deciding my dress . |
| 25 | As I was watching the sparks bounce off the curved perspex , I suddenly remembered part of a nightmare I 'd never remembered before . |
| 26 | For much of this year , Glover 's drawn face has matched his prematurely greying shock of hair . |
| 27 | By then he should have fully recovered from the injured right thigh muscle that has delayed his eagerly awaited debut in Italian football . |
| 28 | I had to rely on my somewhat suspect shorthand for everything the Bishop said . |
| 29 | Conditions on the boat were cosy , not to say cramped , reflecting Branson 's absorption in work and his somewhat bemusing sense of priorities . |
| 30 | Can I , can I just draw attention to an error under paragraph one nine two , the date at the beginning of the second line should be first December , sorry first October , nineteen ninety three , not tenth of December . |