Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
2 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
3 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
4 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
5 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
6 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
7 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
8 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
9 | erm , no I mean apart from the concrete it helps to fill the hole |
10 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
11 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
12 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
13 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
14 | You can have Piers , not literally , I mean just on the tape . |
15 | I mean even at the risk of probably er the other suppliers making a bit more than us if it means that . |
16 | No I mean even with a hand saw , you know , I 've done it before |
17 | I mean even with the market being depressed there 's still gon na be eight hundred pounds in there . |
18 | Yes but surely they thought that through before they got to the stage that I mean even with the mortgage |
19 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
20 | I mean conceivably on the tail end of policy H one yesterday , the new settlement is n't going to accommodate all the development needs of Greater York . |
21 | I mean obviously on the whole he ca n't guarantee what sort of priest we 're going to get , but the whole meeting was quite positive . |
22 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
23 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
24 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
25 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
26 | I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work . |
27 | I eat alone in the dining room and the next morning set off early back to Mr Shah 's hotel . |
28 | I remain continually on the look-out for unusual behaviour from inanimate objects . |
29 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
30 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |