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Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	I 've only given you one sprout so you 're alright .
4	The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit .
5	I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash .
6	And I 'd only done them ten minutes before
7	How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ?
8	I have only met her this morning . ’
9	The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond .
10	Paul Franklin was sound , and Angela Cartwright confessed that she too had long thought it high time Grunte gave up .
11	You 've only had it two minutes .
12	‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’
13	‘ We 're in the WH Smith Top 40 and it has only taken us four years to get there , ’ says Tom White of makers Upstarts .
14	well I 'd only paid me first month you see twenty two thirty
15	I 've just given her twenty pounds , she 's got no change so she 's going to drop me the pound in .
16	Kish has just given you one example I 'll give you one of the others .
17	please contact us at this number , this address , erm or attract the attention of the person who has just given you this flyer .
18	I 've just took me blooming jacks .
19	When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way .
20	Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times .
21	It 's almost painful to tell kids who have gone to see The Graduate eight times that once was enough for you because you 've already seen it eighty times with Charles Ray and Robert Harron and Richard Barthlemess and Richard Cromwell and Charles Farrell …
22	However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time .
23	Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’
24	Well I 've just chucked me bloody jack .
25	Because you did not meet the deadline and you 've just told me that deadline means the day I said I wanted it .
26	Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time .
27	We then came up against a stop , and as I said a moment ago , our choice was between that budget , as negotiated , and the Labour budget , and I 've just shown you one hole in that budget .
28	Well I could have quite easily hit him last night .
29	The judge reckoned it was a bit savage but nevertheless awarded it second prize .
30	Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano .