Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would suit them better to use their surplus cash to aid starving children in other countries . |
| 2 | And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record . |
| 3 | I uneasily awaited his first question about my journalistic ambitions . |
| 4 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 5 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 6 | ‘ I rather like them all , in fact . |
| 7 | I rather like it open actually |
| 8 | ‘ I rather think my pulling days are done . |
| 9 | ‘ But I rather think my modest , high-minded , fastidious , idealistic wife has a long way to go before she qualifies for that description . ’ |
| 10 | I rather liked her unabashed frankness . |
| 11 | I merely make you angry . ’ |
| 12 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
| 13 | I do not intend to offend ; I merely state my innermost feelings in terms of women , past and present , based on the experiences of a long life . |
| 14 | Piranha — I personally find them uninteresting |
| 15 | I personally find it repulsive to handle dead creatures or to ‘ gut ’ them for cooking , but it is not an attitude to commend in professionals like surgeons , veterinarians , nurses , forensic and medical scientists , service and police personnel , even mortuary attendants , undertakers , and butchers , who will regularly need to perform far more unsavoury tasks with equanimity . |
| 16 | I personally find it strange that there is still a stampede to buy any dog that has won anything in Germany . |
| 17 | I obviously got you wrong . ’ |
| 18 | But , I , I misunderstood , I obviously got it wrong then . |
| 19 | I entirely support my hon. and learned Friend 's view that people should be afraid of the law and of being caught , but does he agree that boredom has played an important role in prison riots ? |
| 20 | I entirely share my right hon. Friend 's view that we are concerned about improving health care and benefits to patients , which I believe trust status at South Ayrshire will achieve . |
| 21 | I entirely understand my hon. Friend 's anxiety on that point . |
| 22 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
| 23 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 24 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 25 | No cos I only got it this summer cos my other one was nicked , my other one which had all my really nice visas in it , which I was really |
| 26 | I only got , I only ruined me other one cos when , when it , |
| 27 | ‘ Sir , I only met her this weekend . |
| 28 | He exclaimed , " Woe is me , if I only had my two darling nephews I should not lack a champion . " |
| 29 | ‘ I only had my little Fender Super Reverb , which was basically only a 35 watt amp — undistorted it 's about 25 watts — so I could n't handle it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I only had my eighteenth birthday last week . ’ |