Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Apparently some rotten olives she had eaten were to blame . |
2 | Even if they did put down some yellow lines I do n't think it would stop some people . ’ |
3 | So some odd bits you might think , I 'm not quite sure how you work that out . |
4 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
5 | He treated the club directors with withering contempt , and he had a life-long battle with the disciplinarians of the English Football League , but like so many inspired players he reserved his loathing for referees , that brotherhood of unfortunates whose eyesight and parenthood are the subject of weekly abuse . |
6 | The best players ; but with so many good players we could alternate the groups so that no one felt they had been left out . |
7 | I did n't even write , I was afraid to , co I 've , I 've been inv I 'm involved in so many other things I do n't want to get involved in anything else . |
8 | Yet , like so many other things she later regretted , it had been her own decision . |
9 | President of er has warned that there could be a real and serious civil war and the conflict that there is between Armenian people and Azerbaijan , I 'm not sure that I understand it , but I suppose it has some similarities to so many other conflicts we see around the world , Northern Ireland , er Yugoslavia , just , it goes back hundreds of years and . |
10 | How ironical that in some aspects the Church is entering the modern world , but in so many other ways it is still stuck in the past . |
11 | Even so , with members of the cast having so many other commitments it 's been difficult to get everyone together . |
12 | So one wonders why they should have the ability to eat such a normally poisonous diet when there are so many other foods they can eat . |
13 | There are so many fantastic things you can make . |
14 | Unlike so many brilliant teachers I thought that Basil was completely altruistic — this was born out of his great generosity . |
15 | We did n't really need to cut it up into so many small pieces i would work but we 'd get two of these each cos we 've got twelve little pieces now and there are only six of us to share it out so we 'd say , Oh well have er we 'll we 'll have two pieces each two twelfths . |
16 | No , no , cos we always had so many spare buckets you see . |
17 | Yeah okay yeah , cut down the entertainment that 's not , cut down on the clothes , we would n't buy so many expensive clothes I suppose . |
18 | IT LOOKS a substantial book but there are so many blank pages it is rather expensive for the amount of information . |
19 | ‘ There 's so many wonderful things we could do here , ’ he said . |
20 | Erm , Local Government and Local Council work is often seen as being very drab and indeed we all know that it 's becoming probably less exciting nowadays with the constraints that there are and what Councils still require er in abundance are characters , people who bring a bit of excitement to Council affairs w i at whatever level and I think that one thing that has is character , sadly missing in so many younger politicians I must say . |
21 | We have a confused and overlapping structure er er , the honourable member might be interested in just how confused it is er and how it can be simplified by er going along with the proposals we 're putting forward on this side of the er er the house because there 's so many overlapping authorities it 's just not clear who 's actually responsible for enforcement and compliance . |
22 | In Cookham Wood , especially , there are so many lesbian officers it 's not true . |
23 | I believe that if Piggy had not had so many physical defects he would have been allowed to make himself heard . |
24 | So that 's a way of not relying on remembering , cos you 've got so many little squiggles you 've got to remember , not just in physics , in chemistry and in everything else . |
25 | In so many little ways she was shutting him out , building a complete life of her own . |
26 | Note down any other changes you may have noticed about yourself , even minor ones — you may not see the connection but they may be vital clues to the doctor . |
27 | Not surprisingly then , most of the Schubert/Liszt songs are persuasive in expression , and there are not many living pianists I would rather hear in Erlkönig . |
28 | She faced his dislike now without flinching , and answered in as calm a voice as she could manage , ‘ I can assure you Ryan never bought me anything — certainly not all these diamonds you keep inventing . ’ |
29 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
30 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |