Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend 's remarks about a single currency alarm me greatly because I much admire his intellect , not to mention the fluency of his speech . |
| 3 | The universities may treat them as advisory and act upon them only if they so wish . |
| 4 | ‘ At least I 've seen more of the town where I live than I ever saw from a carriage or on horseback . ’ |
| 5 | I think the heat can get a bit much for ya also if your not used to it . |
| 6 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 7 | So when you , if someone camps on to you , is that what happens , if I take my desk , there 's an unusual amount of ringing and nobody there when I actually pick it up . |
| 8 | Perhaps he fancies me like so he still did n't take no notice . |
| 9 | I want you to know and I think that you do — that I love you more than I ever did before , but in a slightly different way . |
| 10 | She more than anyone else understood her husband 's obsession and his overriding ambition to become Australia 's first ornithologist ; she even encouraged and implemented his aims . |
| 11 | Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact . |
| 12 | ( press R2 ( PrSc ) in your compose window — select UK english — select set — and type shift 3 — this is if you are using OpenWindows version 3 and just sets this temporary — but there should be no problem setting up a US keyboard as an english one permanently if you so wish ( sort of confusing though ) ) |
| 13 | You certainly want to look at doing something now before you actually get taken sick . |
| 14 | Erm so you have to do something now before you actually retire . |
| 15 | You talked about everything else as you usually do . |
| 16 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 17 | I hate that man , she told herself vigorously when she eventually forced herself to sit down and jigsaw the jumbled fragments of her emotions into place . |
| 18 | Maybe that was the basic problem , she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling . |
| 19 | Until an alleged audit failure has been properly investigated , which usually takes some years , the Institute knows no better than anybody else whether there really has been any negligence or wrongdoing . |
| 20 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 21 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 22 | I said I would give them to him only if he later gave me his weapon . |
| 23 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 24 | All accomplished — does it not seem plain ? — to bring her finally where she now rests . |
| 25 | Obviously they thought that by letting this sort of thing out they would have an excuse for putting him away if he ever attempted to call their bluff , " Ha ! " they would be able to say , " Crazy ; read too much SF . |
| 26 | Females tend to disperse themselves among the males but in cases where a male has an especially good territory a female may opt to breed with him even if he already has a mate , rather than go for one without . |
| 27 | Gilbert with his horn-rimmed glasses and walrus moustache was popular in Canada , but I did not get to know him well until we later met on at least half a dozen occasions for lunch in London . |
| 28 | Everybody even though you only had the one room downstairs , I remember when my brother died he w at twelve although there was a big crowd of us in that house there was er no there was n't then there was er the four sisters was n't there ? |
| 29 | She watched him covertly while he deftly impaled a wedge of fillet steak on his fork , and put it in his mouth . |
| 30 | He pushed her away , but quickly clung to her again when he almost lost his balance . |