Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can honestly say he 's the sort of bloke I would sort of try not to get lumbered with at a party or somewhere like that I mean I do n't mind I did n't mind talking to her but I find her |
| 2 | Or perhaps after all you think it is just chance ? ’ |
| 3 | Or maybe in 1992 it does . |
| 4 | It is also that the the maintenance of our road schedules continues to a very high standard and so we are n't er , we have to take er the money from that source er and I will be hoping that perhaps in this we may find that we do not need to raid that particular fund so that we may find |
| 5 | The odd thing was that once on reciprocal we should have passed near the Koln area , with its attendant flak and searchlights , but not a sign . |
| 6 | It seems reasonable to suppose that even before 1790 he would have learned to appreciate their attitudes towards recent history . |
| 7 | There was never a vestige of evidence that he had passed information to the Russians , and eventually in 1962 he was rehabilitated . |
| 8 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 9 | Sandys , when Minister of Supply , had already been instrumental in deciding to develop Blue Streak as the replacement for the V-bombers , and so in 1957 he saw no requirement for either Skybolt or Polaris . |
| 10 | He rightly felt that in the age of nuclear weapons any future war in Europe would be an act of suicide and so from 1956 he appealed repeatedly for an improvement in East-West relations and for super-power disengagement in the continent 's central heartland . |
| 11 | Anker Simmons ' main sporting interest was the river and perhaps at 50 he thought himself too old for new tricks . |
| 12 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 13 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 14 | The constable 's traditional competence lay in military and chivalric matters , and thus in 1478 it was Gloucester , ‘ in his own person ’ , who dealt with the refusal of four new knights to pay the customary fees to the officers of arms . |
| 15 | The constable 's traditional competence lay in military and chivalric matters , and thus in 1478 it was Gloucester , ‘ in his own person ’ , who dealt with the refusal of four new knights to pay the customary fees to the officers of arms . |
| 16 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 17 | But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones . |
| 18 | It was a great day , and best of all we even made it on the nine , on the six o'clock news . |
| 19 | He 's keen , he hits the pitch with a bit of a nip , and best of all he 's a good listener . |
| 20 | Notts new boy David Pennett : ‘ He 's keen , he hits the pitch with a bit of nip , and best of all he 's a good listener , ’ says his cricket manager Mike Hendrick |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 'll find it warmer too , ’ he replied , and soon after that he was drawing up outside their hotel . |
| 22 | And soon after that I was ill — something with the liver — and went to Italy to recuperate — by myself . |
| 23 | I retreated from this scintillating conversation and helped Oliver and Cathy clear up in the kitchen , and shortly before eleven we slid to a halt in the port that was halfway across Canada on some rails parallel with but a little removed from the station buildings . |
| 24 | In 1845 Webster took into partnership his assistant Miles Thompson , who had been with the firm since the 1820s , and shortly after that he virtually retired from active business . |
| 25 | People think , well now , here 's a man who 's been accused of fraud and so forth and shortly after that it comes out that he 's given a big thing to the government . |
| 26 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 27 | On 17 February 1895 Milne 's Tokyo house and observatory were destroyed by fire , and shortly after this he returned to England , settling at Shide Hill House , Isle of Wight . |
| 28 | In 1880 Ormiston 's health began to fail and early in 1882 he retired to the Isle of Wight , where he died in Freshwater 9 July 1882 . |
| 29 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 30 | In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp . |