Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I better not put these on the table . |
| 2 | ‘ I never really solved that problem , ’ Kureishi admits . |
| 3 | Why should a society dedicated to an economy of profit-making competitive enterprise , to the efforts of the isolated individual , to equality of rights and opportunities and freedom , rest on an institution which so totally denied all of these ? |
| 4 | Not all lots sold however , the auctioneer 's buying-in an extensive collection of medals and badges awarded to Ben and Joe Adamowicz who flew the Atlantic in their Bellanca as well as the historic log books which so faithfully recorded this epic flight . |
| 5 | I got a job which just about produced enough money for me to live here . ’ |
| 6 | Ltd. which even then operated several thousand buses all over the London area . |
| 7 | Seventy-nine per cent saw the sufferer daily ( and if they did not live with him or her this often involved several visits per day ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you only just discovered that ? ’ |
| 9 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 10 | So erm where are we bank holiday Monday next week I think you probably probably got enough to play with Tuesday . |
| 11 | And the castle itself no longer provided any defence at all . |
| 12 | The critics drove the final nails in the coffin by failing to recognize the film 's new and exciting style ( thanks to Peter Hunt who oddly never made another Bond movie ) and John Barry 's finest ever Bond score , concentrating their venom instead on Lazenby 's ‘ wooden performance ’ . |
| 13 | She was disapproving of my job and of the person I was , and she never really expressed any real affection or love . |
| 14 | ‘ Eleanor , my parents , quite a few of my friends — you never really made any effort to get along with the people who 'd been an important part of my life before you came on the scene . ’ |
| 15 | Right I 'm convinced such a good breed and you very kindly rigged this Topper up for me so well you wo n't mind if I take it for a spin will you ? |
| 16 | With the introduction in 1983 of twelve-colour printing as well as a heavier weight of high quality cotton fabric and brocade , everyone now finally accepted that drawing rooms and dining rooms were just as suitable ‘ Laura Ashley ’ sites as bedrooms or bathrooms . |
| 17 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 18 | The six countries had already agreed on Feb. 25 to disband the Pact as a military alliance [ see pp. 38026-27 ] after the Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) declared in November 1990 that they no longer regarded each other as enemies . |
| 19 | But though they no longer imported some categories of finished products , many Third World manufacturers found they were importing the components , materials and technology for these products instead . |
| 20 | The pretty toy of a lift had born his weight serenely on four occasions by this time and he no longer felt much trepidation on entering it . |
| 21 | He was informed , by the captain Alan Butcher , two days before the season began that he no longer held any position of responsibility , Maynard having been promoted in his place . |
| 22 | Verger it may have seemed once , down there in the sunlit nave … but up in the spaces … with no one to witness … it no longer needed that shape . |
| 23 | But then why did n't the plant evolve so that it no longer attracted that insect ? |
| 24 | He had only a daughter to succeed him and his son-in-law turned out to be a second Michael Chambre , who after Lath 's death ‘ let loose the reins to many disorderly courses , as cocking , raseing , drinking and lewdnesse ’ , so that he too finally lost all and sold Balderton to Robert Hayward , a local yeoman . |
| 25 | ‘ Unfortunately he never actually produced any of his potential on the set . |
| 26 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 27 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |