Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [pron] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 2 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 3 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 4 | But , having said that , if you feel , particularly with schemes that you are particularly familiar with , that that one is above or another or we could substitute rather than , there wo n't be any more money , that 's the point I need to stress I think . |
| 5 | ‘ The social worker at the hospital — she was marvellous — she put us in touch with a charity that keeps a list of all these types of Homes and she sent us a list and this one was more or less on our doorstep . |
| 6 | The point is that we have a very indistinct line between the real and unavoidable problems of ageing and those which are socially and psychologically constructed and may , with care , be reducible . |
| 7 | Most are still very much in the closet , however , and those who are more or less open about their sexuality rarely prioritise gay representation on their broadcasting agenda . |
| 8 | Few people used it during the day and those who were there when Wickham entered appeared not to notice him . |
| 9 | I think of the way you used to help Mum when we were kids — how kind and efficient you were even when you were quite small . |