Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'M SORRY I HAVE N'T A CLUE |
| 2 | What I 'm sorry I switched off a couple of minutes ago |
| 3 | Editor , — In 1980 I took out a BMA-BUPA policy for myself , my wife , and my daughter . |
| 4 | Said fair enough he said and with that I come out the garage . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid I know rather a lot of people who wanted to kill Mr Phipps . ’ |
| 6 | The evening before last I watched your father proceeding very slowly towards the dining room with his tray , and I am afraid I observed clearly a large drop on the end of his nose dangling over the soup bowls . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have n't a clue , ’ said Robert . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid I have n't a spare copy to forward to you even on a loan basis , one never allows for the contingencies which arise . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I 'm afraid I have n't the slightest idea where they 're staying . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have absolutely no idea . |
| 11 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 12 | At this she gave off a pulse of hesitation . |
| 13 | Everybody was impressed , it was a glorious day like this you know so the Clyde looks so beautiful when you see it in the , in , in a , in weather like this you know . |
| 14 | In 1885 she took over the management of the embroidery section of Morris & Company , her father 's firm . |
| 15 | At the moment you do I take it you 're recording people who sort of ring up say I 'm interested you send out a package to them you record them |
| 16 | 2 She thrusts out the leg , pushing the hips into the kick and using a footsword to break the boards . |
| 17 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 18 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
| 19 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 20 | At times one does not know what to think : Balin goes off to Moria and disaster after ‘ a shadow of disquiet ’ fell upon the dwarves , and when Glóin says this it appears only a metaphor for mundane discontent . |
| 21 | In order to do this he followed up the material throughout its various processes , and plotted its progress on a chart or series of charts . |
| 22 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
| 23 | On 4 July 1933 he made out an application to the Passport Office . |
| 24 | In 1933 he took out a British passport , falsely claiming his place of birth as Galway , Ireland . |
| 25 | Trance-like he drove down the Edgware Road , responding to the multitudinous traffic lights with mechanical movements , while the agitated Eleanor continued to lash his unreceptive ear with a never-ending stream of abuse . |
| 26 | It dragged their small boat for several miles and as it struggled to get free it spat out a human torso , some pieces of wetsuit and a face mask . |
| 27 | In 1684 he turned over the retail side of his business to Francis Saunders and his partner Joseph Knight . |
| 28 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 29 | The paper also discussed erm the proposed topics for discussion at the enquiry in public it explained where the county council 's er relevant policies would be found in the extra electory memorandum it outlined the key objections and the proposed participants for each topic . |
| 30 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |