Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just as cliché haunted Henry 's daily journey to the train , his socks from Marks and Spencers ' , his regular nightly bedtime , his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening , just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village , so his one existential act ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability . |
| 2 | The Left elements in she new Socialist League were not too enthusiastic about joining their former ILP colleagues in collaborating with the Communists . |
| 3 | So we this next meeting at |
| 4 | Otherwise we 'll be up to our necks with toffs in monocles and deer-stalkers all of 'em trailing manservants and frightening the cows and horses by blasting around in they great green Bentleys they all drive . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We have to balance it so they last seven days . |
| 6 | Cecilia had passed Cambridge School several thousand times and been inside it several hundred times but she had never got over her feelings of loathing it . |
| 7 | Not them other little things cos they know you 've got them at the school . |
| 8 | Oh shut up you fat ugly mother |
| 9 | Oh cock a fan , come on then , now do n't bite back you beastly little parrot you |
| 10 | twelve months ago you sorry twelve months ago you possibility that the falling out of the capital and accounts profits might be replaced by er taking some credit for the obvious major turnaround of B-Sky-B and I wonder whether you could elucidate on the prospects of that ? |
| 11 | phone them up and they say , alright you fat old bastard how 're you doing ? |
| 12 | Why do n't you two just go to Bulgaria then . |
| 13 | ‘ Have n't you any other relatives ? ’ |
| 14 | M. And have n't you any other family ? |
| 15 | ‘ Were n't you ashamed last night ? ’ she said half-critically . |
| 16 | erm er then it does help , if you 're looking for P less than point O five , and are n't we all these days , erm |
| 17 | Ca n't we l-l-like each other , just a b-bit ? ’ |
| 18 | Goodness there 's a great sort of burden off is n't it all this sort of shopping er you got to go we finished all the shop and that 's it . |
| 19 | God its a great , a great sort of burden off is n't it all this sort of shopping erm , just got to go in Smiths and , we , I |
| 20 | Perhaps now might be the point to question whether this type of analysis belongs in Screen at all — is n't it unreconstructed literary criticism of the most discredited kind , combing through the textual evidence to find traces of what the author ‘ really thought ’ ? |
| 21 | I think that 's rather , that 's , that 's a cheap deal I think is n't it two thousand pounds ? |
| 22 | That 'll do for that lot wo n't it that little bit ? |
| 23 | Ai n't it funny this time of year , the garden always looks bare and scruffy and |
| 24 | Is n't it cold this morning ? |
| 25 | Oh , was n't it cold this morning ? |
| 26 | The last new clothes she had was when she married twenty years before . |
| 27 | Then came a long anxious wait in the foyer oft he Great Southern Hotel . |