Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sly bugger probably planned it this way , he thought . |
| 32 | Her visit was spontaneous , she said , and her testimony on air really said it all . |
| 33 | Have you er polished your brass today got it all ready to talk to me I hope you have . |
| 34 | He never got to clean up his act at the Betty Ford Clinic then bore us all stupid with tales of his past self-abuse . |
| 35 | The man then asked her some gentle questions . |
| 36 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 37 | ‘ Witnessing the birth of the baby was the experience of a lifetime and then scoring the winner to beat Villa and put us on top of the Premier League just caps it all . |
| 38 | And if you have an increase in , in one year and the situation then throws it all out of kilter . |
| 39 | The driver added : ‘ The company naturally wanted it all kept quiet . |
| 40 | So what we 've done we 've made a film just to show you all the different jobs that archaeologists do . |
| 41 | Carl Kester of Harvard Business School usefully puts it another way in a recent book , ‘ Japanese Takeovers : the global contest for corporate control . ’ |
| 42 | The silly , extravagant , strange or ludicrous sound of an idea sometimes tells us more about ourselves , about our prejudices and resistance to change , than about the truth contained in the idea itself . ’ |
| 43 | This created the problem that their English-style education taught them liberal principles , while the system then denied them that same liberal advancement to the higher echelons of power and social prestige . |
| 44 | But to do him justice , the Prime Minister never gave me any impression that he wanted me to succeed him … . |
| 45 | Used to let them at me mum leave er my kids that she made of hers , yet she , me mum never treated them all the same |
| 46 | Husband and wife kept up their own conversation , turning to the elderly lady from time to time only to offer her another cup of tea or a cake . |
| 47 | ‘ You interrupted my class just to tell me this ? ’ |
| 48 | Lord Cholmondeley 's mother once showed me some of the sets of seat-furniture that were in store at Houghton . |
| 49 | ‘ Still in Mariánské Láznë , ’ Fabia replied , and chatted to her mother for a few more minutes , until her mother promptly gave her another worry to add to her collection . |
| 50 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |
| 51 | They have achieved much in recent years , but the Labour party never gives them any credit and is always moaning . |