Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 2 | I should think because I 'm doing something with some students shortly and then erm there 's somebody coming to see me at two so er |
| 3 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 4 | Notation or codes are appended to a sequence of topics in order to arrange them in some clearly defined order . |
| 5 | Martin 's phoning me at eight o'clock . |
| 6 | ‘ They do n't make them like that nowadays , ’ he agreed , shaking out a scarlet Victorian ballgown . |
| 7 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 8 | Manufacturers of the three fungicides voluntarily instructed US farmers in October to stop using them on 70 out of 83 approved crops . |
| 9 | They got me in 1979 when Eamonn Andrews hosted the show . |
| 10 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 11 | It is envisaged that an analysis of such information will enable the identification of those financial , entrepreneurial , technical and regional factors which are most associated with the growth and performance of subcontracting small firms and which distinguish them from other more ‘ typical ’ small firms . |
| 12 | Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you |
| 13 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |
| 14 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
| 16 | ‘ I take no delight in death , Lewis , and if one thing worries me above all else it is accidents — the random concourse of atoms in the void , as Epicurus used to say . ’ |
| 17 | So , in Part One we are giving you the education , and in Part Two we will introduce you to some carefully designed experiments , as well as some more education so you can become your own diet and weight-loss expert . |
| 18 | I subsequently wrote to you thanking you for this most generous offer and explaining that we wanted to use them as prizes in a raffle but were unable to proceed at that time . |
| 19 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 20 | He had told his informant to meet him at nine o'clock . |
| 21 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 22 | Ann Langford having made her very successful parachute jump which has produced a handsome sum to be shared between Dr. Barnardo 's and the Society wishes to thank all those people who sponsored her in this even . |
| 23 | He is deeply insecure and does n't expect love , never having received it before , yet he deals with Miranda 's death so matter-of-factly , hardly seeming upset at all , that he ca n't have cared for her very much as an individual , which is not surprising as he really does n't know her at all well . |
| 24 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 25 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 26 | He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich . |
| 27 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 28 | The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed . |
| 29 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 30 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |