Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They spend their entire lives trying to match me up with the most unsuitable women you could possibly hope to meet . ’ |
| 2 | One of the most exciting things you can do with Harris 's hawks is what 's called ‘ flying a cast ’ . |
| 3 | Now if they 're long narrow ones you ca n't . |
| 4 | The club that once prided itself on having so few injuries they could field the same team week in week out now has so many invalids they are lucky to have the same side two games running . |
| 5 | They had lost weight by taking appetite suppressors , fasting or going on highly restrictive diets they could not sustain , avoiding all favourite foods . |
| 6 | It seems then that our present suggestion has the effect that whether I have knowledge will depend commonly on which other apparently gratuitous beliefs I may have . |
| 7 | More fundamentally , no one knows why sunspots should occur at all — or perhaps these days we should call them ‘ starspots ’ , since similar areas of ( comparatively ) low energy emission have now been detected on the faces of other stars . |
| 8 | ‘ In only three hours I will be delivering the most difficult speech of my life . |
| 9 | In only three days I shall be free to leave for Israel . ’ |
| 10 | There were so many reasons he could think of that stood in the way of his emulating Sebastian Smith of Greycoats that he could not start to list them . |
| 11 | When that was rejected he argued in favour of his old plan of travelling on foot by the secret paths ; there were so many footpaths they could not all be watched and there was a chance that if they came upon outlaws there would be no more than one or two . |
| 12 | and she said er and they said well we 've had so many complaints we 'd never ever have him again . |
| 13 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 14 | There are so many clubs they should |
| 15 | There are so many tunes they could play . |
| 16 | There are so many things we ca n't control . ’ |
| 17 | But there were so many things we could do ! |
| 18 | Now , today , I 'm going to break away from the notes a little bit , cos I think , there 's so many things you could bring , we could bring in , and I think some of the points made in the notes will naturally come out in our discussion . |
| 19 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's so versatile , ’ said Henry , aloud , as he drove back down the hill , ‘ There are so many things you can do with thallium ! ’ |
| 21 | There 's so many things I would of liked . |
| 22 | Jesus , there 'd be so many things I could do I do n't even know where to start thinking about them . |
| 23 | While Julia Roberts , as Tinkerbell , ‘ swallows so many syllables she might as well be chewing gum ’ . |
| 24 | This resulted in fights and arguments — I was put on report so many times you would n't believe it . |
| 25 | There are only so many people you can watch jumping up and down , and only so many slogans you can be bombarded with before the brain goes into defensive shutdown . |
| 26 | Aubrey seemed to think … and I can see that in so many ways it would be a far better match for you . |
| 27 | In so many weeks she must find work . |
| 28 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 29 | Erm working at the same place for so many years you must have had ? |
| 30 | In fact , we have witnessed this very scenario on so many occasions we could not even begin to discuss them . |