Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there 's , no I mean surely the same will apply on a Sunday ? |
| 2 | Well I suppose you see maybe what they 're trying to do I mean as far as I know I mean previously the Inland Revenue or the valuation office part of the Inland Revenue they actually used to run a scheme where |
| 3 | If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 4 | I also said that if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 5 | Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’ |
| 6 | I mean Just the same do n't walk on your own . |
| 7 | I mean even the simple things , the hard data like annual mileage , is clearly an area of debate because you and Cynthia would argue different points you know . |
| 8 | I mean even the highest spirit of Reason which , according to Nicholas of Cusa , guards the gate in the wall around Paradise — a wall which is built of contradictions . |
| 9 | Nobody in industry has actually got an absolute guarantee , I mean even the British Telecom schemes said they 'll pay , they 'll pay the rate of inflation if they feel they can afford . |
| 10 | I mean certainly the social services now divide up a bit . |
| 11 | I mean erm presumably I mean obviously the local authority has its own people |
| 12 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 13 | Yeah so I mean really the twenty five pound a week she 's not paying her mother she could go to pay a mortgage . |
| 14 | I mean deliberately the actual community itself was set up , so it does have representation from the , the community . |
| 15 | But , you know i I mean actually the other , the other aspect of it Anne if you , if you pull this out you could be talking about hosting small conferences and that |
| 16 | ‘ I fear somewhat the same circumstances . ’ |
| 17 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker it 's also quite important that I make clear the Labour party 's position in respect to the article which calls for uniform electoral procedures to be set up for elections to the European parliament . |
| 18 | ‘ I make always the same thing , corsets etc . |
| 19 | The more work I make there the more reason I research the geography , social history , climate , agriculture , literature , music , painting and individuals associated with it . |
| 20 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 21 | Now that 's much easier to do it on paper than if I say well the only way to find is let's get sixty pennies out , you count sixty I 'll count another sixty then we 'll see how many we 've got . |
| 22 | To improve the quality of our work , these are erm , when I say though the current position is the technical quality is variable , these this assessment comes from internal reviews which are carried out and we have annual quality control reviews in all parts of the of the practice and the answers that have been come back coming back from those quality control reviews have and they 're pretty strict reviews it seems , strictly in accordance with the book , strictly in accordance with all the reg rules and regulations and , so if one has deviated from those and it 's hardly surprising how very high standards B S five seven five O would have , be quite easy to obtain in most of our practice areas , so it 's hardly surprising that there will be occasions when we do n't actually er come up with ten out of ten on a on an assignment . |
| 23 | I put away the few clothes I had brought , together with photos of Mother and Father , and another one — a head and shoulders portrait of Clare , looking happy and unconcerned about her legs . |
| 24 | I count again the different growths : Hosta , Ehryngum , Thalictrum , giddy lupin , Astilbe , goldenrod . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're right , of course , ’ she said generally , ‘ I know only the barest outline of how he — er … ’ |
| 26 | The sooner I get away the better ! |
| 27 | I know that in the mundane , the thought of never having been understood or recognised rankles ; but the transcendent joy is the greater and I get instead the hidden flowers of sorrow of my own soul with their scent and their beauty . |
| 28 | I remember mostly the great joy and vitality of the churches and communities I visited . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember vividly the last concert in Pittsburg ( September 23 , 1980 ) . |
| 30 | I remember clearly the first time he played our first single . |