Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where would I most like to spend the rest of the day ? |
| 2 | One part of me , despite George Crowninshield 's reassurances , anticipated that the twins would emerge as shambling twitching wrecks , and for a second , believing my worst fears , I bitterly regretted accepting the senator 's charter . |
| 3 | ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me . |
| 4 | I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries . |
| 5 | In 1976 and 1977 I published a number of papers in pragmatics , and these I eventually revised to make a book , Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics , published by John Benjamins ( Amsterdam ) in 1980 . |
| 6 | I merely seek to end a war . |
| 7 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 8 | In the meantime I merely want to emphasise the point I was making about change . |
| 9 | Oh I better start getting the dinner ready for tomorrow . |
| 10 | The C Mixolydian scale run in bar 5 and the tremolo picked closing phrase should be alternate picked throughout — I personally prefer to start the scale run and each of the tremolo picked notes with a down-stroke — but you should remember to experiment and use whatever picking scheme works best for you . |
| 11 | This is the only occasion when I personally remember seeing a wicketkeeper coming on to bowl and it may be the earliest such occasion in a first-class game . |
| 12 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 13 | but er , I do n't I , I obviously gone have a way of doing this , but erm , it 's difficult , if you , if you 're at the bottom of the |
| 14 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 15 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 16 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 17 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
| 18 | I only started to make the links when the dampness started to affect my mental health . |
| 19 | Well if I only wanted to know the crossword and every single one is |
| 20 | Call me an egotistical slime , but I only want to preserve the purity and integrity of the current alternative , and hope that it wo n't pass through the mass-media grinder into the mainstream , where it will eventually be recalled as one more passive , stupid fashion . |
| 21 | I only have to take a moment to get my eyes strong and then I can push it out , this strongness , at anything at all so long as I am staring at it hard enough … |
| 22 | I only have to see a bottle of Orvieto and those desperate dawns rise up before me . |
| 23 | and er I only have to mention the time though , oh dear |
| 24 | I do shut them up at night because of the stoats and the foxes , but they put themselves to bed , I only have to shut the door . |
| 25 | Now , I only have to get a Fender ‘ Eric Clapton ’ signature , a Marshall 30th Anniversary Limited Edition amp and a Bob Bradshaw rack ! |
| 26 | I suddenly wanted to see the work I was doing laid out in front of me . |
| 27 | Meanwhile I much enjoyed chairing the South African debate , since tempers flared throughout , including mine , which is always interesting . |
| 28 | ‘ I just had to turn the telly over . |
| 29 | all mothers are sacred but I just had to put the boot in on her , I 'm afraid , I said stuff ! |
| 30 | Well , after Marks advert for Clubcall I decided I just had to hijack the fax machines telephone line and call it up . |