Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But in the hulk of neglect was a healthier me battling to get out . |
| 2 | Let me read out roughly what I 've got down here , it is the the pr presentation and er er sorry I 've scribbled down and I ca n't read my scribble altogether , I know it 's |
| 3 | the only one who worked full time , they came on Christmas Eve with reluctant , because I said look I 'm sorry but I have to work Christmas Eve lunch time , and they said right we 'll be there at five past one , and I finish at one , there were there at five past one , they finally left two days after Christmas because I said I 'm sorry I have to go back to work today . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry I have to dash off again , but I 'm due at Bartons in thirty minutes . |
| 5 | I it 's it 's a pity to be talked out of out of what we 've got but er it it it 's a case , sorry I say talked out of it it 's discussions and erm you have to say that most er ladies look at saying well now what can you promise me every week |
| 6 | So I did and it 's very strange I remember toddling off with this little chap and er and Miss said , Who is this then ? or words to that effect . |
| 7 | the month anyway , so I 've put something like one , ten , eighty seven right as the month and after that I 've put down what magazine it is |
| 8 | The the particular point that that I wish to pick up on though was from M Mr Curtis and his reference to erm the draft P P G thirteen , and whilst I 'd say that the point of the H B F that it 's only a draft publication at this stage , there 's in my view been too mu much over reliance on the reference in there to self containment , you see if we look at that particular paragraph , two point one two , it actually says avoid the development of small new settlements which are not to , sorry , I 'll start that again , avoid the development of small new settlements which are not be likely to be well served by public transport , or which will not be largely self contained . |
| 9 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 10 | But after that I did take up private nursing . |
| 11 | The first year of my research made up my pilot study and from that I decided to carry out a full scale research project . |
| 12 | After that I tried to settle down . |
| 13 | So I got up , but I was that s weak I had to sit down again and er the n the nurse that come in she said , You stop there till doctor comes . |
| 14 | ‘ Trouble is , that night we started all this I 'd made up my mind to forget her . |
| 15 | There is , however , another element in the GP 's ideology and with this I want to draw out one of the most powerful of the myths of medical work and relate it back to my earlier theme of profession as mystery . |
| 16 | At six and a half I loved making up my face , and at ten , the baby book recorded , I wanted to be a dress designer . |
| 17 | I put er yeah I 'd forgotten few I 'd picked up as well . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 19 | Yes I 'm afraid I 've come in as a a last minute substitute and I feel as if in the eighty ninth minute I 've been given a penalty to take that could win the match or |
| 20 | She 'll be , there 'll be questions she 'd want to ask which perhaps you , you may not er normally pick up on and ask and if it 's well I 'm afraid she 's gone out shopping today say well that 's a pity , I 'd love to meet up with her . |
| 21 | This is exactly what this staircase is , and to get from one room to another you had to go down one staircase and up another . |
| 22 | The heating in the Met Office was by means of an open coke fire , and this we kept stoked up high on cold nights , but I 'm not sure that this was such a good idea . |
| 23 | A few days after this we commenced running down our longitude , and from this time until we reached the shores of Van Diemen 's Land , several species of this family ( Procellaridae ) were daily in company with the ship . |
| 24 | Now today because it 's a little windy we 've rolled up some of the sail out of the way to make it easier for you |
| 25 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 26 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 27 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 28 | To do this he had to lean over and push the bolt firmly into place . |
| 29 | After a couple of minutes of this he decided to go back to Elstree . |
| 30 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |