Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh let's have a carton of custard , seventy nine right , we 've got one of those , right I want pasteurized milk four pints one oh five , oh that 's not , no great saving is it ? |
| 2 | Then a little further on I heard English voices ahead , and called out . |
| 3 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 4 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 5 | The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I prefer cold air to hot air , ’ he suggested urbanely , his eyes darkening with what could have been amusement at her spirited defence of her career . |
| 7 | It was a Top 30 of contemporary records , but the new entries were very unlikely , and obviously I favoured certain musicians , like T. Rex . |
| 8 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 9 | So I put Live Aid on . |
| 10 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 11 | So I became Red Hat the clown and travelled among the street people ( in Europe ) , a little drunk , but not crazy drunk in those days . |
| 12 | So I chose general farming , and then you chose whether you wanted to go to a farm or and in a hostel , communal . |
| 13 | So I think other people have er a contribution to make which is , well it would be important . |
| 14 | So I think enlightened self interest . |
| 15 | So I have close contact with the family from from my childhood . |
| 16 | So I rang United Airlines head office , at my own expense , and spoke to a woman who could find no record of me on the UA computer . |
| 17 | No , I mean I , cos I , you know I , i I spend a long time coarse fishing so I understand actual fishing for pleasure as opposed |
| 18 | So I drink pink gin . |
| 19 | The heat of the windless afternoon lay on her like a blanket , but suddenly she felt deathly cold . |
| 20 | And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her . |
| 21 | All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed . |
| 22 | None in the conventional sense that I take it that you mean mark down you mean clearing merchandise |
| 23 | Perhaps you have awful faults to counterbalance your few good points . ’ |
| 24 | All the commissions , and you only get paid I say only you get paid commission on the first year . |
| 25 | So she murmured soothing words and patted Eleanor 's shoulder until , little by little , the rocking and moaning subsided like the vibration of a spring coming to rest . |
| 26 | So she had great fun making them . |
| 27 | So you get long beep , short beep , long beep , short beep , that 's the successful switching tone , you 'll know it 's worked , and you go trotting back to your office , you get 75 seconds again , it 's like the hold , before it starts to ring , or you can access it by keying in what ? |
| 28 | So you get extra daylight then . |
| 29 | Yeah , and what did you get you see , you get mutations going on in plants so that you get at the moment when the plants themselves are altered , it does n't necessary , necessary mean that they 're killed off , it does n't necessary mean that they are killed off , it means that the actual genes alter , that they go on breathing so you get ginormous sort of cabbages , you know , cabbages that 'll normally be about that size , suddenly become that size |
| 30 | So you see human beings are not the only animals capable of using tools to get at their food . |