Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reached over , lifted his hand from where it was resting on the table , toying with a piece of orange peel , and he leant forward with it , allowing me to take it as near to myself as I wanted . |
| 2 | Erm first of all if I may just er point out that the example I put with my paper that I have submitted today , and I thank you for the er indulgence in allowing me to produce it so late , was simply that there was one particular appeal of decision where an inspector remarked particularly on the lack of a local or a development plan policy relating to generally relating to the countryside . |
| 3 | I do n't want to sound alarmist , sir , but I do n't think I like it very much . ’ |
| 4 | Simon Andrew Detchon , 19 , of Cleveland Street , Great Ayton , was convicted of receiving a stolen cover note knowing or believing it stolen , making a false instrument , namely a cover note , with intent to induce someone to accept it as genuine , using a motor without insurance , forging or altering an insurance certificate , using insurance with intent to deceive , fined £350 plus £30 costs , licence endorsed , disqualified for one month . |
| 5 | Yeah I mean he could go , he could go every day all day but umm do n't enjoy it so I mean I enjoy it too much . |
| 6 | No , and so , but you can choose what you want to use , to watch the video I mean I find it particularly good with children , we 'd |
| 7 | ‘ Or will you settle for the fact that he now thinks I find you pretty irresistible ? ’ |
| 8 | Looks at me and he goes I hate him so much ! |
| 9 | I tell you something else as well , if you want me to take you out any time you want me to take you out and , and I mean this honestly if you do n't want sex you wo n't have to have it |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose you want me to tell you how many spelling mistakes he 's made . ’ |
| 11 | He wants me to hate myself so much that I destroy myself . |
| 12 | Well you do n't count I hate you whenever that bloody face comes up like |
| 13 | This thesis attempts to make use of one particular aspect of driving which makes it nearly unique in everyday life . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know you found us so amusing ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I expect you find it very provincial after London — boring , nej ? |
| 16 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 17 | The defence minister , Kaspar Villiger , and his supporters reply that Switzerland needs something to replace its now 30-year-old Hawker Hunters . |
| 18 | He really is so peculiarly helpless , and I could n't have let him take it home all by himself , could I ? |
| 19 | Music by Scott Joplin then helped him to create his light-heartedly comic Elite Syncopations . |
| 20 | Now 3 staff members say they spotted someone very similar 2 days before at another college site 2 miles away at Northstar . |
| 21 | Has it made him more docile and thus easier to control , or has it destabilised him ? |
| 22 | The Templars first built it as a fortified manor but later generations had embellished it to make it more comfortable . |
| 23 | The scarcity of jade , the distances from which supplies were drawn and the high input of labour needed to work it made it too expensive for ordinary working purposes . |
| 24 | Has he asked them how this initiative could affect their livelihood . |
| 25 | But has he had it since new ? |
| 26 | There 's a fault in our family — they say it shows itself once each generation . |
| 27 | When he surfaced he saw it about ten metres away . |
| 28 | Has anyone found something else that works ? |
| 29 | So now I go out and shoot Lou full of holes and when the law wants to know what makes me so excitable I tell them Mr. Bonanza said Lou shot Mahoney . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know what makes you so certain I 'm the woman who — ’ |