Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had the children I put on lots of weight which I never really lost . |
| 2 | ‘ I put on lots of weight but I did n't weigh myself ever , and I did n't read any books . |
| 3 | The four-inch-wide gun slits let in plenty of light , although there were electric wall lights . |
| 4 | So let so nothing in reality has changed , has it ? |
| 5 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 6 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |
| 7 | These flowers are visited by larger bees such as species of Xylocopa , which land on the hood-like ligule and forage underneath it for pollen . |
| 8 | Tha him , look how , look how he after mummy and I give him |
| 9 | In fact , it was doubly ironic , as the SDLP now owe almost everything to Labour 's democratic reform . |
| 10 | I make up something by way of reply . |
| 11 | tone your breasts by spraying them with alternate bursts of warm and cold water then smooth on lots of body lotion to keep them looking their best . |
| 12 | Many of my school friends know hardly anything about sex and it worries them but mum has made it very easy for me to ask questions . |
| 13 | Like practically everything in business this is easier said than done , as the plethora of books , theories , advice and consultants testify . |
| 14 | Like almost everything in DataEase it 's easy to understand |
| 15 | ‘ I know absolutely nothing about life over here . |
| 16 | Pour in plenty of water to flood it and then replace the soil when the water has soaked in . |
| 17 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 18 | That station is supposed to be haunted by old Garrity who was that porter there in the old days , and not many people go near it in daylight , never mind after dark . ’ |
| 19 | Hell , I had a bumper sticker saying ‘ Have You Hugged Your Kids Today ? ’ and , sure , I hugged them every day I could , but nowadays I sometimes wonder just what in hell is going on inside their heads . |
| 20 | We do get bits in do n't we from time to time ? |
| 21 | You know quite a few rules do n't you about punctuation that 's good . |
| 22 | As chart 2 on the next page shows , poor countries throw away lots of vegetable matter — what some rubbish boffins evocatively call ‘ putrescibles ’ . |
| 23 | The individual cow-pats are often still very hot and plastic when they hit the ground , so that as they pile up one on top of each other , they spread out further , and weld together , forming a solid mass known as spatter . |
| 24 | Stake out plenty of territory , always a high-status activity , by spreading your papers in front of you and using expansive body language ( especially if you are physically small , or female ) . |
| 25 | because you got to get plenty of stuff have n't you after Christmas . |
| 26 | Although these differences are now widely known , there is so far no satisfactory explanation nor do particular penal philosophies , or the adoption of deliberate policy choices in favour of a greater or lesser use of custody , necessarily seem to have expected or intended effect on one jurisdiction or explain why its of imprisonment differs from that of another jurisdiction . |