Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So but I also coaxed Mrs about the Wandsbergh . |
| 2 | No come off the throw in as you rightly said John . |
| 3 | ‘ Not that she ever dried Beuno 's socks , but you see what I mean . ’ |
| 4 | At the James Bolger murder trial in Preston the jury has been told how two the two eleven year old defendants tormented an elderly woman shortly before they allegedly abducted James Bolger . |
| 5 | Neither did I. I never imagined that a father could treat a dying child as cruelly and wickedly as we later discovered Heathcliff had done . |
| 6 | ‘ It was when City had their man sent off that we really needed Robbo 's experience . |
| 7 | Then pulled himself up short before he inadvertently mentioned Bliss 's warning that the shipment was destined for an Iranian terrorist faction . |
| 8 | Similarly , in Leechian terms , he upholds the Politeness Principle when he interrupts Hollar again ( p. 54 ) because he does so to affirm enthusiastically that he too remembers Peter Volansky , thus obeying Leech 's maxim of agreement , " maximise agreement between self and others " ( Leech 1983 : 132 ) . |
| 9 | Lately he had always seemed to start the day with a broken window-pane , and then suddenly one morning the front of his shop was boarded up and we never saw Mr Schultz again . |
| 10 | It was n't as awful as she 'd anticipated , partly because she greatly admired Raimondo 's talent , partly because the audience was so small , just the sheikh , his wives , a handful of retainers , and a couple of the sheikh 's Italian business associates brought along to translate — although one of the businessmen kept giving her glances that made her uncomfortable . |
| 11 | Even if I never know Friend again , I know him inside me . |
| 12 | The wild aurochs , as big as a modern English Longhorn , was widespread in Britain while there was still a landbridge linking the land to the Continent after the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age , but it died out here during the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago and it never reached Ireland . |
| 13 | Erm , well as you probably know Bolton , Boltonian , may be regarded as rather parochial but erm we 've always been a little suspicious about Manchester and there probably are n't very many Boltonians you take the Manchester Evening News regularly because we have our own Bolton Evening News . |
| 14 | Luciano Pavarotti rested there after his famous Hyde Park concert , actor Richard Gere is a regular at the hotel and Madonna stopped there when she recently visited London . |
| 15 | It was an honest mistake and one that all of the current Leeds back four have been repeating frequently since then — however if I ever see Bredan ‘ F***k**g ’ Gormless I 'll kick his head in ( NOT ! ) . |
| 16 | ‘ She has been seeing James recently but she still loves Marco , ’ said Mrs Butcher . |