Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 2 | At the moment a lot of Rave music is played which is not my favourite music but I usually go to them anyway to socialise with my friends . |
| 3 | Baseball was my favourite game and I really missed it . |
| 4 | Anyone who has witnessed my hon. Friend and his especially outstanding and noticeable ties will see that Redditch has many lively things on which it can be commended to the nation . |
| 5 | ‘ I explained that I was 31 , I 'd had a history of infertility , and that this was my second pregnancy and I really wanted a child . |
| 6 | Erm well I tried for years to live with my second husband and it just was impossible ! |
| 7 | My paternal Grandfather was a stubborn , domineering man who intimidated my little Grandmother and everyone else . |
| 8 | My older brother and I immediately laid siege to our mother to let us go . |
| 9 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 10 | I knew I 'd found my spiritual home and I still think Bob Seger is crap . |
| 11 | He 's only doing it for my own good but I still do n't like it . |
| 12 | ‘ Bradford sells itself on its friendly image and I still believe that if we can get kids on to the campus , we will improve recruitment , ’ she says . |
| 13 | I could imagine her in her sexiest dress and her most alluring perfume , cooking pasta the way Rick liked it . |
| 14 | Football was their chief interest but they also followed cricket . |
| 15 | With the stigma of a life-ban hanging over him , his club form never realised its early potential and he now works as a storeman on an off-shore oil rig . |
| 16 | About this time the Club was given its second trophy and which today is known as the Lovell Bowl . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're quite despicable , are n't you ? ’ she said fiercely , keeping to anger to disguise her uneven breathing and her warmly flushed face . |
| 18 | However , her future as a concert pianist was forestalled by an injury to her left hand and she then began her life 's work of promoting musical appreciation . |
| 19 | He had hit it once and I had taken my hand out from under my chin preparatory to ducking when Paul , the bomb and its little halo-pool and everything else for about ten metres around suddenly vanished inside a climbing column of sand and steam and flying rock , lit just the once from inside , in that blindingly brief first moment , by the high explosive detonating . |
| 20 | Jerome was confident that even married apostles lived in mutual continence , after the example of their unmarried Lord and his ever virgin mother . |
| 21 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
| 22 | The Football League hierarchy are also looking for a new TV deal for their revamped competition and they also still have to meet sponsors Barclays to discuss the final year of their deal . |
| 23 | Her life is described over at least two pages and is very dramatic — she lived in Italy where she was much courted because of her great beauty but she eventually married ‘ the very worst of those who sought her hand ’ — Paulo Neroni . |
| 24 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 25 | I never bought that stuff about her ever-expanding conscience and I certainly never bought any of her beauty products . |
| 26 | Her winning smile or her pretty blonde hair ? |
| 27 | ‘ Mrs Charlie 's at their front door and they still do n't get out of her reach . ’ |
| 28 | The Department of Social Security has clarified the National Insurance contribution position of directors whose personal bills are paid by their employing company and who then reimburse the company by reducing the credit balance of their loan/ current accounts . |
| 29 | They had shot their own film and it somehow got mislaid . |
| 30 | I mean how do you protect Eurofighter two thousand in the absence of the medium range surface to air missile on the , I think you you told us about er the aircraft themselves as it were providing their own protection but what else ? |