Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 2 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 3 | They had to walk , and a real hike it was — getting on for three miles I think . |
| 4 | A little after 0530 hours she was 45 miles ( 72km ) from the estuary , when she crossed the tracks of the Wolfe-Mowe destroyers , sent out earlier that night to sweep for mines that the Germans thought had been laid by the British force . |
| 5 | ‘ He never talked much about those things he did , ’ I said . |
| 6 | So during windy days you do better working burrows with entrances unaffected by wind . |
| 7 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 8 | And er you wo n't drive naturally for two reasons I suppose . |
| 9 | So for eighteen months we only met three times , when he visited during his leaves . |
| 10 | Much of the heat comes from around the edge of the Disc , so for optimum results you select a Disc that is slightly smaller than the pan you are using . |
| 11 | One of our first thoughts was to accommodate the sows outdoors , so for comparative purposes he has made the assumption that new purpose-built accommodation for 220 sows would be likely to cost £400 a sow . |
| 12 | So for some children it is deemed better to place them in small homes where it is easier to maintain continuity of care . |
| 13 | And so for these characters it is . |
| 14 | So for several weeks she was never asked to stand still with a rider on her back . |
| 15 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |
| 16 | In between these duties they still managed to have a lighter side , arranging dances at the Institute which became popular throughout the war , and their concert party entertained many during those dark days . |
| 17 | But you see er you know you 'd got to do that so in between those times you could n't do much else could you ? |
| 18 | In After Strange Gods he continued his investigation , but with an attitude far from simple romantic primitivism . |
| 19 | In any case if they were n't in after three rings I was giving up . |
| 20 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
| 21 | Right , so after twenty seconds they 're up to full speed , and flat out , erm they 're at forty five degrees . |
| 22 | The relational perspective simply explores the social features of any knowledge process , regardless of any claims it might make to be independent of social determination . |
| 23 | Nonetheless the Conservatives ' opposition to Beveridge disillusioned many people who felt they could not be trusted to implement the report , regardless of any promises they might make . |
| 24 | It was , however , Minton 's habit to tire suddenly of young men he had previously made a fuss of , and Ricky was no exception . |
| 25 | Apparently like all numbers I used to only use B three and A one |
| 26 | She loved him so very much that if he suggested they take hands and spurt to the cliff-edge and plunge off the edge together like lovesick lemmings she would do it . |
| 27 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 28 | But obviously with twelve matches I 'm not gon na be able to spread it like I did last year . |
| 29 | So with fifty ohms we were getting a cer let's say with fifty ohms we were getting about ten amps going through . |
| 30 | Her assistant breezed in with some figures she wanted , just as she was taking hold of the Palmer & Pearson file . |