Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limpar , on his way back from international duty with Sweden in Oslo , told me : ‘ Shearer is top class , a striker I rate very highly . |
| 2 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 3 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 4 | So it , it wo n't suit everybody , you might not want , in my case I do n't particularly want to live with a burglar alarm . |
| 5 | I think that would depend on the species would n't it and the , and the local conditions , for example in that erm case I mentioned in yesterday 's lecture monogamous birds with long breeding groups where you get desertion . |
| 6 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 7 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |
| 8 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 9 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 10 | M. I 've never really thought of M objectively before , as another person . |
| 11 | The champagne I spurned so imperiously … |
| 12 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 13 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 14 | erm extrovert I do n't quite know about that |
| 15 | I would be grateful if at some point Mr you were to deal with er Doctor 's er most recent comments on the Greater Crested Newt , since of course I 've only just had those er more or less on coming into this room , and I have n't had a chance |
| 16 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 17 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 18 | Of course I do n't really believe in it at all . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Of course I feel all right . ’ |
| 20 | That 's a new component I put on there and that would be updated , yeah . |
| 21 | When we neared Al Ain I saw once again the Hazhal Bush , those massive waves of red sand hundreds of feet high which had once protected the oasis from marauders . |
| 22 | ‘ The small stone houses I saw up there — are they Inca ruins ? ’ |
| 23 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 24 | Before I left the fortress , in the late afternoon I climbed once more up to the guardian 's hut to say goodbye . |
| 25 | If the terms of Bell 's inequality are calculated from the composite wave function I mentioned above then the inequality is found to be violated ; on the other hand , it is always satisfied for wave functions that are simple products . |
| 26 | Returning to the front of the croft I batter once more on the door , knowing full well that I shall never see her again . |
| 27 | The last chit I hired not only got herself — well , you know , with the coachman , but made off with some of my best lace when I turned her away . |
| 28 | ‘ For the loss of my watch I did n't exactly come up trumps in the breakfast lottery . |
| 29 | You see , I promised myself that all the money I earned out there in Australia should go to you ! |
| 30 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |