Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I already hate myself for having taken the job , I know it was a mistake . |
| 2 | ‘ I usually say something about going for boldness and colour , but that is really a question of choosing artists by their style . ’ |
| 3 | I also join him in deprecating the attack on my noble Friend Lord Jenkin , who has accepted an appointment on a trust . |
| 4 | I also join him in paying tribute to Alick Buchanan-Smith who was a personal friend of mine , as he was of so many , and who was an outstanding parliamentarian and Minister , and to the courage of George Buckley . |
| 5 | I also congratulate him on winning The Spectator 's Back Bencher of the Year award . |
| 6 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 7 | The choice of hi-hats and cymbals is excellent , and I often use it for programming percussion . ’ |
| 8 | I sometimes amuse myself by trying , in the street or in a supermarket , to get a smile from some particularly hard face . |
| 9 | I readily join him in paying tribute to the remarkable achievements of the academic and other staff in those institutions of higher education in terms of the wonderful opportunities that they are offering to more and more of our young people and to people of all ages . |
| 10 | I almost hate you for talking to me like this , when you know how you 've ruined my life ! |
| 11 | I never use nothing fe mek me Whiter |
| 12 | But I do n't just go in one shop , and I never buy anything without looking at the price . |
| 13 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 14 | You just er , you just take it for granted do n't you ? |
| 15 | You probably hate me for saying that . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know I mean I think it depends how you d whether it is as formal as that or whether you almost do it by saying to er to half a dozen careers officers and half a dozen employment officers , Fill that , you know , Fill that in . |
| 17 | Every year when the mares come to stud , there are always a few who we initially think are quite sensible and intelligent but who then surprise us by behaving as if they are totally brainless ! |
| 18 | draw round it , dot dot dot , draw even if you then sketch it without using a straight line , if you just join up the dots freehand , |
| 19 | At this stage we merely introduce them in passing ; we will return to them in greater detail later on . |
| 20 | We know how cars work , but we do n't appreciate how our skeletal machinery works ; we just take it for granted that it does . ’ |
| 21 | We strongly advise you against reheating your meal at a later time . |
| 22 | Smokers form a kind of club ; they understand one another ; they have their addiction in common and they mutually reinforce it by handing cigarettes around like little , ritualised gifts . |
| 23 | I keep having hot flushes , know what I mean ? but d' you think they care ? they just follow me round saying ‘ Miss we 've dropped a stitch ’ . |
| 24 | No wonder they easily recruit us into joining their narcissistic self-contemplation . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , in fact , they always disqualify themselves by dying . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 27 | They have a dimension of being beyond the reach of rational formulation , and they often disconcert us by behaving quite differently in one novel , in one volume , from what the previous volume had led us to expect . |
| 28 | Using the nCube Parallel Software Environment , applications developed for an eight-processor nCube 2E system will run unchanged on an nCube 2S computer with as many as 8,192 processors , so serious potential users can make an affordable investment in the thing to decide whether they really like it before making a real commitment . |