Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand it can be argued that the sauropods like Brachiosaurus were so large , and with a relatively small surface area through which to cool compared with their enormous volume , that their cooling rate could have been slow enough to allow them to sustain more continuous activity than smaller , living reptiles . |
| 2 | Although it may seem like folly to invest in such buildings , many of them make perfectly good homes and buyers would be helping to preserve Britain 's heritage . |
| 3 | Papal actions , too , appeared to add further proof : after 1337 , except in 1362 and 1375 , popes no longer taxed the clergy for the benefit of the king in England , though at that time they were certainly enriching the French monarch by clerical taxes ; and while successive French kings readily obtained papal dispensations which enabled them to contract politically advantageous matches , Edward on two critical occasions — in the 1340s and 1360s — was denied such benefits . |
| 4 | I am pleased to say that later in life , Ralph and I became very close friends . |
| 5 | But the problem I became very angry years ago with that because , I mean Irish Close and we had the three of you we found that she 'd , she just kept on telling us off . |
| 6 | As we saw under Beliefs ( see page 21 ) it is easy to fall prey to some recurring unrealistic thoughts or beliefs which cause you to feel upset whenever they are violated so , either while you are being hindered by an unproductive feeling or after an experience where you are hindered , or when you feel vulnerable to the onset of an unproductive feeling , ask yourself : ‘ How can I make more effective use of this present moment ? ’ |
| 7 | Living , as I did then , in the country seldom coming into London , I made only rare visits to the crammed and cramped little shop , and sought , as always , something that was out of print , lost , or printed the year before , . |
| 8 | I mean increasingly small authorities are effectively opting out of the national negotiat now we ca n't ignore th |
| 9 | I mean just small things like that |
| 10 | I mean just little ideas like this you know putting recipes and things |
| 11 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 12 | I do n't think we could be completely drug-free , I mean obviously medical conditions dictate that you have to take medi , medicines |
| 13 | yeah well I mean so sure saves umbrage of course you did n't you 'd be , er , I 'm sure much more er careful , but then you 're an experience er business man in the flash of youth . |
| 14 | And er people was of often off for day or two , I mean really nice people , they were n't they were n't bad people , they were really nice people but they it was nature you see . |
| 15 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 16 | There were old roses climbing up these walls and other old roses in borders — I mean really old ones , not nineteen twenties ' and thirties ' ones which catalogues count as old . |
| 17 | A number of criteria would relate to that and we we simply , it is n't appropriate I know , sir , to go into the detail of that , but I I postulate briefly certain questions . |
| 18 | Oh I got best bloody hand around ! |
| 19 | I mean I got pretty bad marks I find it difficult , find it very difficult . |
| 20 | Really is good gets your going but I got fucking wet feet ! |
| 21 | Y we put it in the garden and I got really cold hands and then was just about to put them into hot water when you said do n't cos you 'll get chilblains |
| 22 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 23 | Only then the nymphs were retreating at speed , in a flurry of droplets and giggles , so I got only fleeting views of slender backs and rounded behinds . |
| 24 | I got only wrong answer |
| 25 | I got very little notes and it 's |
| 26 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 27 | I got virtually equal marks across arts and sciences for O levels , so making a choice at A level was difficult , but I felt a bit swayed by the fact that people said it 's best to do science subjects as far as jobs and university places go ; it 's difficult to get on to arts courses , but it 's easier to get on to science courses … that 's really why I chose science , ultimately . |
| 28 | I hate dead white things ! |
| 29 | Your little sister here " I hate very old toys , " Tilda said . |
| 30 | ‘ I found most English players were creasebound anyway . |