Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that both Linda and I were abused makes it worse because I want to help her , I want to comfort her , I want to care for her , but by doing that I 've got to forget about what 's happening to me . |
| 2 | That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview . |
| 3 | The committee has asked from time to time , that I keep it updated with er European legislation , in so far as it affects employments matters , and this I 've intended to do in Paper K. There are two Appendix . |
| 4 | First I 'm afraid I do have to admit to a bit of deception on my part . ’ |
| 5 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 6 | Now when we was between sixteen and eighteen if you was unemployed you 'd got to go to school . |
| 7 | When society 's going well , then it gives you something to rebel against , but if life is crap you 've got to look after yourself and the people around you in order to survive . ’ |
| 8 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Never mind , Ellie , but you must understand that what with one thing and another we do tend to jump to conclusions — not always the most obvious . ’ |
| 10 | The French were sufficiently worried by the rapidity of German industrialisation and by the quality of their wares that by the 1890s they had begun to invest in Russian railways , coal , steel and textiles as a way of controlling and reducing German competition . |
| 11 | ‘ I have enjoyed it so much I have asked to stay in the DES . |
| 12 | The total of these requirements — some of which will be spread over several years — will give a good indication as to how much you have left to offer for the freehold or rent . |
| 13 | The 45 they 've decided to pluck from this last collection if ‘ Suck You Dry ’ , a glorious slab of grunge that opens with the innocent sound of a tambourine beating time and then explodes into a vampiric rocker that comes across like the successor ( at last ! ) to ‘ Touch Me , I 'm Sick ’ . |
| 14 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 15 | He looked at her , aware she was equally ill at ease ; aware also how much he 'd grown to depend on her . |
| 16 | Even to get this much he had had to agree to a number of statutes which he construed as so prejudicial that he vowed to repeal them as soon as possible . |
| 17 | Mr Fallon enjoys his job schools minister so much he has asked to remain in the Department of Education and Science if he wins the Darlington seat . |
| 18 | He closed with a sparkling Satin Doll , returned with Rollins 's exuberant St Thomas , and left us with the memory of a performance which fed the mind and sent the spirit soaring , while reminding us of how much he has had to overcome in finding his way to such radiant self-expression . |
| 19 | It ai n't like I 'm going nowhere special — it 's just so cold I got to move to keep from freezing . |
| 20 | Well that 's , that 's fine you 've got to start with the easy ones and at your age you would n't , you would n't normally be doing them this hard at all , this is for sixteen year olds who are doing their , their plot paper on G C S E maths so you expect to find , oh hang on this is a bit hard there 's a bit of work in this , but I think you 're capable of doing it . |
| 21 | I 'm glad he 's agreed to stand as a Vice-President . |
| 22 | I think the second element is that there must be some sense of a concentrational identity erm so that the the sporadic development that one does tend to see in the countryside , I do n't believe constitutes a settlement . |
| 23 | O K , so , that 's really all I 've got to say about living assurance , of all the , it 's just got to be , a brilliant contract , and if you can afford it , you need it yourself . |
| 24 | He 's mad that 's all I 've got to say to him . |
| 25 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 26 | But it 's not obvious to the many who have failed to invest in the latest equipment , who continue to squeeze a poor profit from dilapidated plant , decaying property and — worst of all — disenchanted people . |
| 27 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 28 | All she had left to clutch at was the memory of how she had felt . |
| 29 | All she has to do to get to work is walk out of her kitchen to her office just across the hall . |
| 30 | And now all we 've got , all you 've got to start from is Sophie 's father . |