Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too late for that , and nothing discreditable had leapt out from Greg 's perusal . |
| 2 | Nothing much seems to happen up at your camp . ’ |
| 3 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 4 | Davies had come on when Swansea scored their second try to take over from flanker Alan Reynolds , who had a foot injury . |
| 5 | Well what does that mean then are you likely to get called out at the middle of the night ? |
| 6 | It seems that you all want to hurry on to item three A , erm as far as the timetable is concerned |
| 7 | However , since nothing substantial has seeped out in this porous capital , that 's doubtful . |
| 8 | Something sudden had come up concerning the family fortunes and he had to consult his solicitors : it was the one excuse that his seniors being closer to retirement and thus deeply concerned with land values and capital transfer taxes accepted with sympathy . |
| 9 | In a sense it 's this , the unexpected , we all hope to bring back with us from such trips . |
| 10 | When she did this we all had to line up into two lines which were the juniors and infants . |
| 11 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 12 | We all had to stand up in turn in front of the class and give a short talk , followed by a question-and-answer session . |
| 13 | Yeah then we all had to wander out of here . |
| 14 | Of course we all like to get on with people at work , but our relationships are based on our skills , our expertise or our functional roles , not on friendship . |
| 15 | I think we all struggled to come up to his level . ’ |
| 16 | I hate the fact that , during election campaigns , we all have to suck up to the idiots , pay court to them , treat them as if they were intelligent , thoughtful stalwarts of democracy , careful weighers of pros and cons , when in point of fact they 're just idiots . |
| 17 | Let him know that something good has come out of his tragic death . |
| 18 | SOMETHING good has come out of the NatWest Access computer system foul-up which left customers with muddled statements . |
| 19 | They 're trying to arrange a ‘ mutually convenient ’ date ( and in the back of their minds they also want it to still be on sky … so unless we both get knocked out of the FA cup this weekend ( perish the thought ) we 'll probably end up playing a saturday and the following monday if moneygrabber silver is owt to do with it . |
| 20 | An' I mean to go through with it , we both mean to go through with it . |
| 21 | We both wanted to get out of the place . |
| 22 | Suddenly she thought how ridiculous they all looked dressed up in their best clothes and squabbling like children ; and feeling quite calm she drew herself up and turned to the Portuguese gentleman . |
| 23 | wha , what was gon na happen when they all had to go back to work |
| 24 | Humans , robots , cyborgs , androids and aliens : If they were serfs they all had to strip off before going through Arrivals Registration . |
| 25 | The other side of the picture was the very severe hardship that would be faced by the families , their witnesses and supporters if they all had to travel out of Orkney for the case . |
| 26 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 27 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 28 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 29 | They all want to shop around for new western weapons , and are exploring joint-purchasing schemes to cut the cost . |
| 30 | When they first started coming out of the box they would just sit wherever they happened to land after stretching their wings . |