Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 2 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 3 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 4 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 5 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 6 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 7 | He sent his parents a letter promising that ‘ if the good Lord God be merciful unto me and bring me safe home again , I will all the days of my life serve Him in praising His Holy name and exhorting others ’ . |
| 8 | Wattling , bring me those saucers there . ’ |
| 9 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 10 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 11 | You ai n't given me any tickets lately . |
| 12 | Send me some money soon . |
| 13 | They told him to meet them two nights later and threatened frightful consequences if he should fail to appear . |
| 14 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 15 | I seen them this morning so tell Mr |
| 16 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ Mia found them several months ago . |
| 18 | My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration . |
| 19 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 20 | He caught me last time though . |
| 21 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 22 | Aunty Mary send you some money then ? |
| 23 | shall we go and buy you some juice okay , cos we 've really ran out of juice this morning did n't he ? |
| 24 | In extreme cases , if the dark areas of the artwork are not perfectly opaque ( say you used ink instead of dry transfers or crepe tape ) the UV light could pass through this and excessive exposure will affect the etch-resist varnish under the artwork — and the result can be that the whole of the etch-resist ink will be exposed , so that the foil pattern does not develop . |
| 25 | Go to his office and make a scene , or send him some flowers there with a really embarrassing message , or something . |
| 26 | She visited him two days later , just after he had cut his thumb on the mouse-trap and was bleeding into the sink . |
| 27 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 28 | I told you we tal I talked , I , I disturbed her all day long . |
| 29 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 30 | Sunil found him ten minutes ago . |