Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rather enjoyed that in a funny way , ’ said Helen . |
| 2 | ‘ But I only stuck that for a couple of weeks , ’ he says , ‘ for I was playing guitar at a party one night in Cleveland , Ohio , and he said there were easier ways of making money out there than working the building sites . |
| 3 | I suddenly thought that on the advert that 's gone in |
| 4 | I just said because of the health service and schools |
| 5 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 6 | When I was a student in Germany and encountering fierce anti-semitism and a fierce anti-Jewish relations I , I soon realised that at the back of this was a direct attack upon the concrete revelation of God in history through Israel and the church , which called in question German nationalism , German blood and soil . |
| 7 | I soon learned that in the islands a bungalow meant any house , large or small . |
| 8 | Even when I could n't rightly understand him , I always knew that at the heart of his talk there was summat good — sum mat true . |
| 9 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |
| 10 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
| 11 | ‘ I never doubted that for a moment , ’ he replied in an extremely charming , yet at the same time insolent , tone . |
| 12 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 13 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 14 | EVER-MARRIED ( WOMEN ) — The term includes currently married women and women who once married but at the time of the observation were divorced , separated or widowed , and excludes single persons . |
| 15 | After that she would make her way back to her aunt , her mission a failure , because she now knew that in no way would Silas be persuaded to go cap in hand to Bertha . |
| 16 | We also thought that on the feast of St Thomas More , June 24th it would be a good idea to celebrate the feast in the evening in the school hall when we can all gather to meet for the first or last time and say ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ Good-bye ’ as appropriate . |
| 17 | We also assumed that from the age of 14 able pupils could and should be reading from a range of books written for adults , so the number of suitable authors would make any list quite impracticable . |
| 18 | We also found that in the South East of England ( including Greater London ) , where the density of IT employers is very high , DP staff turnover levels as high as 40 per cent were being recorded in 1986,6 compared to ( only ! ) 25 per cent in the previous year ( quoted in Computing , 30/10/86 ) . |
| 19 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 20 | They also observed that in the linguistically most diverse city of London it was quite common in the ethnic workplaces for the ‘ boss ’ to speak to the employees in their mother tongues ( Greek , Turkish , Italian , Bengali and Chinese ) . |
| 21 | They also protested that under the law half of any funds received from abroad were to be placed in a special " fund for democracy " . |
| 22 | They also recognized that among the major contributory causes of debt problems were accident , sickness , unemployment , divorce or marital difficulty , death or other change of family circumstances . |
| 23 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 24 | This road we also notice leads from King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] as a back entrance to Professor Coleman 's residence and garden , and to his stable , coach-house and kennel for his dogs — which , however , we understood he rarely used except in the shooting season . |
| 25 | Schroeder however does appear to equate unreasonableness with oppression but it is suggested that it was not laying down any principle to that effect : it so happened that on the facts in that case unreasonableness and oppression both existed . |
| 26 | This was a wire type recorder , and it so happened that during the very substantial impact a piece of structure cut across the take-up spool presenting the investigators with something like 11 000 lengths of wire about ten inches long on which the events were recorded . |
| 27 | How long he lay against Mick he did n't know ; he only knew that between the sounds he had been emitting and the wash of tears that seemed to have drained him dry , a voice within him had kept repeating : ‘ She killed your father , Mick ; she killed your father . |
| 28 | He rightly felt that in the age of nuclear weapons any future war in Europe would be an act of suicide and so from 1956 he appealed repeatedly for an improvement in East-West relations and for super-power disengagement in the continent 's central heartland . |
| 29 | In older working class communities , where neither housing conditions nor wages permitted such total devotion to housewifery , it nevertheless appeared that on the whole standards of housekeeping were high . |
| 30 | America Online Inc is challenging Prodigy Services Co , which just announced plans to charge usage fees for the most heavily-used databases on its viewdata service , by cutting prices to its own 250,000 subscribers : the company says it deliberately waited until after the Prodigy announcement to disclose its new pricing , hoping to maximise attention for its move and woo subscribers away from the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co joint venture ; under its new plan , subscribers will pay $9.95 a month for five hours of access to all its services , a rate that it claims is less than half the price of Prodigy 's new tariff ; extra hours will cost $3.50 each ; at Prodigy , subscribers pay $14.95 a month for unlimited access to many of the features but from July 1 will pay surcharges after spending two hours on widely-used bulletin boards . |