Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Steve Pyle has not only done us all a favour ; he has done you one , Mr Laing . |
2 | , I only give her half a one as well . |
3 | →Yeah , but you 're only giving us half the story . |
4 | It only took me half a day to decide that I wanted the job . |
5 | But it only took me half an hour to get to Blefuscu . |
6 | He agreed with the head 's account of Balbinder 's lack of concentration , which obviously worried them both a great deal . |
7 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
8 | so call it half a box |
9 | He told him how much of his pay he had saved up for today , how he would personally kick him all the way back to Newmarket if he did n't win , how he was a big beautiful bastard that could n't fucking lose , could he ? |
10 | But Aqib countered : ‘ We did not know what all the fuss was about . |
11 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
12 | I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target . |
13 | In the cold light of day you come to realise that you just can not do it all the time , that the body comes to a point where , for the moment , it has had enough . |
14 | I 'll just give them all a little bit of a massage , shall I ? ’ |
15 | They fucking give it all the verbal and |
16 | In fact I do not understand what all the fuss is about . ’ |
17 | It no longer functioned as a club ; members could not understand what all the others were up to , and were aware that the interests of physicists and of biologists might be opposed . |
18 | ‘ Just give her half a glass , Saul , ’ Becky orders , putting her hand on her brother-in-law 's carrot-coloured sleeve . |
19 | Just give 'em half a chance , they 'll whip you in and the only way they let you out of them places is feet first , in a box . ’ |
20 | Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’ |
21 | She told me , just as did you a moment ago , about being put to bed and the sprinkling of holy water — but I could still not see what all the fuss was about ! |
22 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
23 | It must be remembered , too , that plants which contain medicinally active substances often do not contain them all the time in all their parts . |
24 | But she said erm I wan na just tell you all the others that have n't made it , we 've just said well I 'm sorry . |
25 | ‘ Just getting us all a little something . ’ |
26 | We shall assume that you have come to work but not to do it all the time . |
27 | I 'm not , I 'm not just blaming them all the time , I mean , the situation is , when they go out on the field , they are their own men , I ca n't do anything about there , I ca n't talk for them out there ; I can only put it on in training , and when they get out there , they 've got to do it theirselves . |
28 | Even translation from morse into natural language does not take us all the way to consciousness ; for , in the absence of consciousness , language is merely variegated sound , rather than the rich varieties of meaning that are embodied in , for example , Shakespeare 's texts . |
29 | and you sort of say , do you think it would be useful if we talked about reception because that 's something y you 're not doing quite as frequently but it 's obviously , it must be difficult for you to fit in to that because you 're not doing it all the time . |
30 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |