Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flap limit is 91 knots , and pumping them down requires rather more muscle than retraction . |
| 2 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 3 | She suddenly gets really cold but she wo n't come out . |
| 4 | For this she naturally needs as much information as possible , but is always happy to guide families through what is needed , or to undertake research . |
| 5 | Wandering around the cavernous warehouse that contains the Neighbours sets in Nunawading , Melbourne , she fondly points out various props which have all played a part in shaping the history of Ramsay Street . |
| 6 | She only spends about 8 hours without food and fluid and is soon able to compensate for this . |
| 7 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 8 | Well precisely for that reason , that not only this particular person , but lots of other people at times cause trouble , and I 'm not always there erm and Pauline , who 's next to me , who you 'll probably talk to in a minute — she 's over eighty , she 'll kill me for telling you that because she does n't look it , she only looks about forty , but — erm she stuck in there and people are frightened and erm worried about her , and the fact is that erm there 's no other way of calling the police than having a phone . |
| 9 | Furthermore , since she normally lays around 12 eggs in a season at a rate of one egg every two days , she needs to know the locations of several nests simultaneously . |
| 10 | Angela is planning a traditional wedding but the dresses she had seen were too romantic and frilly , and she was unsure about what to do with her make-up as she normally wears quite strong colours but felt she wanted to tone them down for her wedding day . |
| 11 | She normally comes about four o'clock on a Thursday . |
| 12 | She just eats too much . |
| 13 | I mean I 'll wait , we wait there and , but I think she just wants as many people as she possibly can , do you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | One of his marvellous women , when anyone asks her anything about herself , she just rolls out that line … |
| 15 | so she always looks about five eight or something . |
| 16 | ‘ She is very funny , but she always looks so vulnerable . ’ |
| 17 | She always looks very warm — she sort of sinks into it so you can just spot the top of her hat . |
| 18 | And you know , she 's , she always seems very willing to put things right . |
| 19 | Taking the example of the working mother : she usually has so many roles to fulfil that her needs very definitely take a back seat . |
| 20 | She still does about 100 concerts every year with her six-piece band . |
| 21 | She probably feels as embarrassed as you do Bet . |
| 22 | It had French windows opening onto a communal terrace and that beautiful view of Bristol that you get from Clifton and which she clearly loves so much . |
| 23 | At times , it is almost as if she is trying to emulate the star-studded image of Suzanne Lenglen , which she clearly admires so much . |
| 24 | She also becomes quite animated when talking about the excellent local supplies of fresh fish available to her . |
| 25 | But conversely , as I have already remarked , when Juliet Mitchell insists that ‘ bisexuality is a movement across a line , it is not androgyny ’ , she also leaves too much of sexual difference in place . |
| 26 | She , she really feels very vehement about it |
| 27 | It 's , it 's really clean , yes she , she really picks very good choice , look . |
| 28 | She really has n't much choice , there 's the glorified schoolmarm ; there 's the brave little woman who tries to be a good wife and housewife , and I daresay mother , as well , and makes a point of her pretty clothes ; and there 's the bluestocking , the eccentric and frump , the mathematic 's dean who does n't know which side her tea-cup is chipped . |
| 29 | She often becomes very close to her parents , particularly her mother . |
| 30 | She was attracted to him partly by the little-boy-lost quality which she now finds so infuriating . |