Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm serious about that , it grieves me greatly the possibility that he may not hear what the patch has to say .
2 I mean , took the point of coming round all the staff , talking to them personally every patient and she made a point of getting down on her knees and talking to the patient personally !
3 Then I refold the newspaper and return it .
4 If he did n't hear me go outside , he wo n't hear me open a can or two , will he ?
5 I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages .
6 ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year .
7 I know a guy who bowls at the Bromley Bowling Club in exactly and he told me that they have professional green keepers who look after lots of different greens and they come into them once a week or whatever .
8 Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country .
9 and eat in there , and erm oh she says , she marks , she writes down all the market days , when you just the market and you see the fruit
10 I 'll phone you once a week and you can tell me how you 're getting on . ’
11 Are you always the life and soul of the party ? ’
12 ‘ I know that I owe you both an explanation and an apology , ’ she said slowly .
13 If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this .
14 So do you find that does that help you quite a bit or
15 This is why it does throw you quite a lot if another actor forgets his move , because it churns up in your brain the sequences you 've worked out and are expecting . ‘
16 So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on .
17 Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective .
18 We 'll give you twice a day but a slightly bigger dose so that 's actually five hundred milligrammes twice a day .
19 If you use mirror from floor to ceiling and at right angles to a window or opposite a window it will give you twice the light and twice the view .
20 You think you no a colour until you try the er , and the one I actually picked out when she measured it off , she 'd only got three yards and I needed four and a half .
21 on saving education , he said that I supposed to get the six teachers , he said I 'm gon na get rid of five he said and if I possible can I 'm going to make it four , that got ta remember those of you who are on protected salaries erm you again the pay and a half other members of staff and he said he wanted voluntary redundancies and early retirements where possible , you know , and also he had n't supposed to tell for a month so this will come out later in the year
22 During the war , when we were doing research on strong plastics , Professor Charles Gurney used to recite this little ditty to me nearly every day and I found it depressing because wood was in fact a better material for making aeroplanes than the plastics which we could then produce .
23 The shock of the assault carried them both a yard or two back along the passageway .
24 On the costume side the addition of ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ feet strove to give them both an alien and a slightly comic appearance , again emphasising the points Whitaker wanted stressed from the script about these quizzical little xenophobics .
25 Three times their number drove them unrelentingly a mile and more through the broken copses and across the brook south of Cegidfa .
26 Let it have your sole attention when I am abroad , but when I am at home , so jealous am I of your affections , I shall permit no rival in them even a son and heir .
27 Was the reservation letter received by him merely a promise as to the future or was it a statement of present fact ?
28 The only gossip which came back to Lucien was that Amber thought him too plain in appearance to work well with Jeopardy , and considered him merely a tool that her lover was using in an attempt to provoke her .
29 He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion .
30 It made her more a person and less a policewoman .
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