Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 2 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 3 | The view is widespread among the senior officers we talked to , and among ordinary policemen , that policewomen , as women , have instincts and capabilities which make them better suited to specific types of police work . |
| 4 | One thing the microfloppies have in common is the fact that they are all under 10 cm in diameter , making them better suited for briefcase-size computers than the existing 5¼-inch ( 12–5 cm ) and 8-inch ( 20 cm ) diameter floppy discs . |
| 5 | This basic categorical imperative bids me only act on such a maxim as I can will should become a universal law to which all rational agents conform their behaviour . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure I altogether approve of that . ’ |
| 7 | For the reasons that I have given , I am sceptical of the existing system and therefore I rarely speak on such motions . |
| 8 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 9 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 10 | I 'm doing all these books , writing things and life is too short , time is passing too quickly , so that 's why I like my houses so much , and why I rarely go to other people 's houses . |
| 11 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 12 | I duly arrived at 9.30 am . |
| 13 | I secretly hoped for twenty-one . |
| 14 | When Pop said , ‘ What about all those other people in the convoy , does n't the dear Lord care about them too ? ’ this worried the two ladies considerably , and I rather think after that they either thought that we were faithless , or became a little apprehensive themselves ! |
| 15 | Never , perhaps , have I so lived for such a long time together . |
| 16 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 17 | Here I better listen to that to see if they were talking about me . |
| 18 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 19 | I personally think with these smaller of the theat of the theatre companies who spend their life touring more or less |
| 20 | I personally spoke at countless gatherings , from twenty suited businessmen at their weekly lunch to 200 noisy schoolchildren packed in a hall . |
| 21 | I entirely agree with this decision and with the passage cited but it is important to note that when Nolan J. spoke of the alternatives which ‘ must both be made available to the subject ’ he was , as I think , clearly referring to the alternative on the one hand of allowing the breath specimen to stand and on the other hand of exercising the right to have it replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 22 | Well erm I entirely agree with most of what Mr has said . |
| 23 | I entirely disagree with that . |
| 24 | You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building . |
| 25 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 26 | I only go for older women . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I only go to small shops now . |
| 28 | ‘ I only indulge on special occasions , darling . ’ |
| 29 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 30 | So that was my life , I only had about two years in |