Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 2 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 3 | ENOUGH TO DRIVE US ALL BANANAS |
| 4 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd better buy it some flowers . |
| 6 | I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash . |
| 7 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 8 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
| 9 | As I said , I can only give you general hints . ’ |
| 10 | whether it 's the afternoon or an evening or weekend it 's still the same price , but the , the mental patient actually employs you , you 're not employed by the hospital , but they can only give you ten hours a week which is five session so that 's only sort of twenty seven quid a week so you 're |
| 11 | They 'll only give you three months of Sky programmes . |
| 12 | Do they only give you free parts under warranty if it 's serviced with a ? |
| 13 | The ‘ swing ’ from Labour to Liberal Democrat was 6.4pc , enough to win us both seats in the Willington West ward . |
| 14 | From there , she was able to make regular visits to Vietnam — and so give us essential reports on where our help was needed most . |
| 15 | Team secretary David Morris said : ‘ Ian only joined us three weeks ago because he had discipline problems at his last club . |
| 16 | You 've only had it two minutes . |
| 17 | She only give her two bits of toast . |
| 18 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 19 | He was only getting him little gigs here and there and you would n't call him a dynamic person . |
| 20 | It only takes us three quarters of an hour . |
| 21 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 22 | It 'll only take me five minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll only take me ten minutes … |
| 24 | It 'll only take you five minutes . ’ |
| 25 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 26 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 27 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 28 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 29 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 30 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |