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 .
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