Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 2 | Cos I asked about that before I travelled down because I was worried in , you know , in case of breaking down . |
| 3 | We increasingly face a racism which avoids being recognized as such because it is able to link ‘ race ’ with nationhood , patriotism and nationalism , a racism which has taken a necessary distance from crude ideas of biological inferiority and superiority and now seeks to present an imaginary definition of the nation as a unified cultural community . |
| 4 | Seeing as an electric guitar becomes an almost entirely different animal at high volume , how do you compensate for that when you practise ? |
| 5 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 6 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
| 7 | Erm no I 'd like just to go through that if I can . |
| 8 | I do n't always think about that when I 'm looking at his work , I look at technique . |
| 9 | At a victory rally Thorne stated that all four seats could have been won for Labour if they had fought as pro-ally candidates ( SE 1 January 19 ) . |
| 10 | He wo n't know for sure whether it 's a success until the time comes to deal with the excess stock . |
| 11 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |
| 12 | The County Council has 28 days in which to appeal , then it 'll know for sure whether it 's the budget or jobs which will have to be cut . |
| 13 | As for Jessie herself , she had held her in her arms and reassured her that her Robbie would be all right , even though , from the scanty information given her by the nurse , she could n't know for sure if he would be . |
| 14 | ‘ But I doubt I 'll ever know for sure because I 'll never see her again and only by coming face to face with her will I know the truth . ’ |
| 15 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know for sure where she goes , ’ he admitted to Wayne . |
| 17 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |
| 18 | Oh I do n't know about that cos I 've got to understand it have n't I . |
| 19 | Well I do n't know about that because I do n't think that anybody stays the same all the way through their life , and I do n't think there 's anybody in life that 's strong in every circumstance . |
| 20 | How can you at college , I mean I know there 's your course , but I did n't know about that until you enrolled for it . |
| 21 | You could use a chronic adulter to actually write it a bit easier but er I did n't know about that when I wrote these slides many many years ago and it 's carried on since . |
| 22 | Er did you know about this when you were offered the flat ? |
| 23 | People lied about their intentions up to the moment of voting and went on lying even as they left the polling stations , saying they had voted for Labour when they had voted Tory , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Prior to that Meath had come off best when they accounted for Down in the 1990 league decider . |
| 25 | But I mean , I do n't think you need to worry about that cos I think got round that when they when they converted up to . |
| 26 | He was sharply reminded of that when he disobeyed God at Delilah 's instigation , and woke up to find that ‘ the Lord had left him ’ ( Judg. 16:20 ) . |
| 27 | I 'm sorry to write like this when you are so hard up yourself — Please do n't think I 'm bemoaning — but honestly this house is insupportable . |
| 28 | What sort of a person did it make Alain when he would behave like that because he had suffered a frustrating evening . |
| 29 | The sky was dark and threatening and Felipe had looked like that as he 'd left the house . |
| 30 | She was beginning to think he had a way of entering her thoughts and her memory , because she had looked like that when they had made their final move — tall , slender , leggy . |