Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I want to cry , I hide in the toilet and feel desperate ’ , was a common reaction if I asked someone where she cried . |
| 2 | That is why I side with the scientists and the Fundamentalists of Arkansas against the fake liberals . |
| 3 | Erm in terms of taking up their ideas , guiding them , encouraging them etcetera an and saying look , you know , this is okay er er er I mean to an extent that would depend on how much military security there was in the area . |
| 4 | Well t I mean to the extent that that is happening , that there is a development of trade on the sort of , you know , with the periphery of the empire and with erm areas outside the empire , and that was certainly happening in this period , I do n't see why it should have a significant impact on the peasant population because there is n't really any evidence that it 's , in a sense , trickling down and enriching the peasantry . |
| 5 | its my responses to it , that would be a very different approach , because of familiar with a , I mean with the postcard that was past around , familiar with that picture then looked at it one , I feel that about it . |
| 6 | Framsden mill and its environs will illustrate what I mean about the compactness and self-sufficiency of the rural villages in East Anglia . |
| 7 | Well he still looks young , I mean despite the fact that he 's a grandfather I think twice over |
| 8 | Is the autopsy going to give us much idea when Angela Morgan died — I mean within a day or so ? ’ |
| 9 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 10 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
| 11 | No but I mean in the ones that they have , yes . |
| 12 | I mean in the sense that their objective is the same , then it 's the same organization . |
| 13 | Indeed , finally , David Frost asked : ’ I mean in the situation that if you find that those two moves , the tax at 50p and the National Insurance contribution raised £4.5 billion or £4.8 billion ’ — which David Frost said was more than the right hon. and learned Gentleman needed — ’ you would n't adjust what you 're going to do , downwards ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I remain of the conviction that the ordination of women to the priesthood ought to be construed as an enlargement and extension of the historic Christian ministry , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I remain of the conviction that the ordination of women to the priesthood ought to be construed as an enlargement and extension of the historic Christian ministry . |
| 16 | I lay for an hour until the wind subsided enough for a hill to show two miles away . |
| 17 | I push through the tourists and into the Horse Guards . |
| 18 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 20 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 21 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 22 | When she clumps out I sit on the bed and ask Rachel , ‘ What the hell are we doing here ? ’ and she shrugs . |
| 23 | I sit on the bed and take off some clothes . |
| 24 | If I sit on the fence or back Howard Kendall , I will still get slagged off because people will say I 'm patronising the Blues . |
| 25 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 26 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
| 27 | ‘ Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables . |
| 28 | That there is a power beyond mankind itself — and I 'm not ashamed to say I trust in the existence and loving-kindness of God — that should be accepted , just as our own imperfections should be accepted . |
| 29 | I trust in the power and magic of the universe . |
| 30 | I long for a blockbuster that 's also good writing . ’ |