Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , the two reasons I even got involved in a group were at the party — Mark Smith and John Peel . |
| 2 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 3 | I 'm the other spaceman , I got hairs on my chest I never get depressed . |
| 4 | I 've never use I 've never used nothing on my skin I never got nice skin oh no I do n't , no I do n't , well any waste of money is a gimmick . |
| 5 | In the previous chapter I deliberately held open the question whether Zande witchcraft should be classified as ‘ religion ’ or as something different . |
| 6 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 7 | My step lightened , I was full of energetic high spirits , and during the summer term I even became keen on playing tennis , which I would practise with the assiduousness I had formerly devoted to the piano . |
| 8 | There was the other side , the reality , the disciplines , the demands , the side I never seemed good enough at . |
| 9 | She had instinctive good taste , especially in her dress , and whatever the setting she always looked right . |
| 10 | This diet , if followed properly , will help you achieve the kind of figure you never dreamed possible but there is only one person in the world who can actually make it work for you — and that 's YOU . |
| 11 | Through her daze she slowly became aware of the sergeant 's voice . |
| 12 | Six small unions in Gaza had been closed down by Israel in 1967 , and only allowed to re-open in 1979 , on condition they neither held fresh elections nor recruited new members . |
| 13 | In fact , it could be said that the only women these days who sport one single fragrance , all the time , are those famous glamour-pusses — Joan Collins , Elizabeth Taylor , Paloma Picasso , and so on — who are paid several millions of dollars a year to endorse a ‘ signature ’ scent , on condition they never allow gossipy fellow lunchers in smart restaurants to get an illicit whiff of ‘ Chanel No 5 ’ as they swan by . |
| 14 | Through his exhaustive and objective scholarship he significantly influenced subsequent research into English religious dissent . |
| 15 | James Beck ( late of Dad 's Army ) was among his closest friends , while on the romantic side he almost got engaged to Yootha Joyce , got engaged to Justine Lord , and then finally , in the summer of 1963 , mid-way through his work setting up Doctor Who , got married to June Barry , soon to gain world-wide fame herself as one of the three leading ladies in Donald Wilson 's epic adaption of John Galsworthy 's The Forsyte Saga . |
| 16 | ‘ When I first saw the head in the font it just looked familiar — I could n't sort out why . |
| 17 | As he looked over at the stranger he suddenly became aware of someone else in the room . |
| 18 | Although he had terminated his PhD course and left active research he nonetheless kept abreast of developments in chemistry . |
| 19 | Though reserved in his interpersonal relationships he nevertheless displays good interpersonal skills . |
| 20 | When lost for words he occasionally quoted other people 's descriptions of the scenery . |
| 21 | The train resembled a site from the late 50s–early 60s when numerous tours were staged on branch lines in this manner and with 75069 in a slightly weather worn condition it certainly looked authentic and fitted the part well . |
| 22 | Franco himself admitted in the mid-1940s that there were some 26,000 political prisoners in Spain — a figure he clearly considered normal and accep- table . |
| 23 | Somehow I managed to get Joe out of the house , and in the daylight he gradually became normal again . |
| 24 | Congress , I 'm a Labour Councillor and whenever I sit on the Council I also ask Conservative members to declare their interest before they speak on an issue , so I better declare mine . |
| 25 | One evening in December I gently pushed open the old kitchen door , and there , sitting by the fire next to Joe , in my old place , was — Pip ! |
| 26 | When Philippa arrived outside the pub she almost felt ashamed of her approval and excitement and admiration of the evening before . |
| 27 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 28 | In contrast , in the NHS we now face reduced access to care in a system that once prided itself on its aim of universal accessibility . |
| 29 | As we receded from the mainland we ever sighted new mountain ranges : we saw them growing fainter and dipping out of our sight ; to the southward the Skye hills lent a charm , and the Isle of Lewis loomed bigger and broader , till we steamed alongside of the pier and were landed ‘ mid the curing of a fine catch of herring taken during the night . |
| 30 | Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision . |