Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have issued personal protection weapons to construction workers , yet most of them only face danger for the short-term duration of their contracts , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He was late because ‘ the police pulled me in to form part of an identity parade . ’ |
| 3 | Byron Rogers ended his lavishly illustrated piece with the words : ‘ This has been a late twentieth-century fable ’ . |
| 4 | the Secretary of State still had to announce his long awaited decision on the Brynhenllys Inquiry and he rejected British Coal 's appeal for a large site at Pwll Du . |
| 5 | His much praised history of a village through different voices , different times and very different writing styles . |
| 6 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 7 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 8 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 9 | I only started work for the exam in February . ’ |
| 10 | I only work part of the week , well , for money . |
| 11 | As I was watching the sparks bounce off the curved perspex , I suddenly remembered part of a nightmare I 'd never remembered before . |
| 12 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 13 | Can I , can I just draw attention to an error under paragraph one nine two , the date at the beginning of the second line should be first December , sorry first October , nineteen ninety three , not tenth of December . |
| 14 | I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze . |
| 15 | ‘ I just read rubbish on the tube ! ’ ; |
| 16 | I generally take pleasure in a more subtle approach . |
| 17 | Tinning , who finished sixth in last year 's BMW International in Munich , attributed his new found form to a changed mental attitude . |
| 18 | I finally left Luggnagg on a boat sailing to Japan . |
| 19 | For instance , returning to that problematic word cunt , I once took part in a discussion in which a woman explained that she did not use that word because for her , its connotations were unrelievedly pornographic . |
| 20 | Gail Smith writes ‘ The burden God has given me for Albania took root in 1982 the first time I ever heard mention of the country and people . |
| 21 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 22 | Well , I always look north on a dark night and I think that twice in the last twelve years . |
| 23 | But I always give credit to the audience . |
| 24 | During that time though I still kept contact with the market and the market traders on a Saturday , and a Thursday , if possible , after I 'd finished , remembering the market stayed open till nine o'clock at night . |
| 25 | I still get jelly in the belly , Joe , when I stand up and face those bods . ’ |
| 26 | I hate to sound sappy , but anything can make me cry , and I still get melancholy during the fall or when the sun goes down . |
| 27 | But I still retain sympathy for the misguided foreign tourists who read about its properties as a ‘ gateway to the beautiful western Highlands ’ and end up wandering in dismay down streets that make the Bronx look like Disneyland . |
| 28 | Of course , I still had water from the stream , and then … the earth 's plenty … ’ |
| 29 | I avoided ice cubes , salads and water — I even cleaned my teeth in mineral water — and I still fell prey to a stomach bug . |
| 30 | But I still enjoy refereeing in the Northern League . ’ |