Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps one day we will all be like you . |
| 2 | The orang-utan became the more or less solitary animal it is today . |
| 3 | I just wondered , colleagues if Azil Nadir of Polly Peck fame currently I understand sunbathing in Northern Cyprus would be prepared to say how proud he is to be associated with the Tories of course in saying that I do include Michael Mates , and I just wondered whether or not this watch he sent was in fact a Timex watch . |
| 4 | It 's the pasta Italians use for those glorious family feasts that mark special occasions — or just any time they feel like spoiling themselves at table ! |
| 5 | They often have people in doing talks , so later on this or early next month I 'll be able to get a couple of hours talks . |
| 6 | Pelvic infection It is particularly important to tell your doctor about any pelvic infections , ‘ salpingitis ’ or sexually transmitted disease you have had in the past , as this may affect the choice of contraceptive method for you . |
| 7 | Privately police officers have told us , decisions on cautioning can depend on how much or how little faith they have in the courts to pass adequate sentences , and on how much paper work is required for a prosecution . |
| 8 | No one can say how long it will take or how much money it will cost . |
| 9 | Of course they do n't know whether I 'm married or single , why I 'm buying so much food , or how much money I 've spent on food that week . |
| 10 | When preparing a suggestion for costs to your opponents you should run through a checklist of the following tasks which are likely to have occupied your time during the case and assess how long you have spent on those tasks or how much time you think you should charge for having completed those tasks : Letters out , miscellaneous telephone calls . |
| 11 | We had no idea how long it would take to support ourselves or how far back you need to go in the food chain before you can become organic . |
| 12 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 13 | But after tonight 's slaughtering of ‘ Bill Is Dead ’ and ‘ Popcorn Double Feature ’ , even repeated mumblings of the old mantra that ‘ Mark Smith is The Fall ’ are unable to erase the feeling that perhaps this time they 've got it wrong . |
| 14 | But after tonight 's slaughtering of ‘ Bill Is Dead ’ and ‘ Popcorn Double Feature ’ , even repeated mumblings of the old mantra that ‘ Mark Smith is The Fall ’ are unable to erase the feeling that perhaps this time they 've got it wrong . |
| 15 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |
| 16 | She said that fucking last year I said . |
| 17 | more than just physical reason I , I mean a lot of people are grossly overweight they , you know , people usually say oh it 's the |
| 18 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 19 | He was a little shorter than myself , rather stocky with broad shoulders and that slightly duck-toed walk I find so attractive in athletic young men . |
| 20 | Except maybe this time it really is . |
| 21 | WADDON MANOR is more perfectly proportioned than almost any house I have ever seen . |
| 22 | In the gasping aftermath ? he had no idea of where he was nor how much noise he had made . |
| 23 | It is not always possible , of course , to see how many of the homagers actually resided within the manor , nor how much land they might have held elsewhere . |
| 24 | It was a tremendous morale-booster for Michael to do something of the sort again , but I am sure none of the delegates at the conference knew of the pain he was in , nor how much discomfort he concealed behind his ready laugh . |
| 25 | The hardest and most necessary lesson I had to learn was how to say goodbye . |
| 26 | One minute dangling on the end of a rope ; the next a reprieve , a bumpy ride through Paris , followed by the sweetest bread and most fragrant wine I had tasted for months . |
| 27 | If you can procur [ sic ] me any porters for this , the finest and most perfect work I have yet attempted , you will be doing me a real kindness ; you are aware that neither pains or expense will be spared to render it complete . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Miss Mates said that I was the best and most hard-working girl she had ever had , ’ she answered proudly . |
| 29 | Montgomery said that the spring offensive of 1943 was ‘ the heaviest and most savage fighting we have had since I have commanded the Eighth Army ’ . |
| 30 | In 1830 he described the opium trade as ‘ the safest and most gentlemanlike speculation I am aware of ’ , and later argued that it was Chinese buyers , rather than British merchants , who were doing the smuggling . |