Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When children come into a strange house they are often a little shy , so give them a warm welcome . |
| 32 | ‘ We 'd only had it a short time but it was very tame and friendly . |
| 33 | Theorems 2 and 3 together give us a relative completeness result : relative to the knowledge we are assuming about expressions , our algebraic laws are complete with respect to deciding the equivalence of finite programs . |
| 34 | you see , we used to when old shoes do you see , you could only use them a certain number of times by welding them up |
| 35 | It may be full of microbes and rotting vegetation , but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavour . |
| 36 | Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil . |
| 37 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
| 38 | The wide strip will contain a language pattern which is well known to the pupils , eg give him the large book . |
| 39 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 40 | While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted . |
| 41 | that 'll only cost you a small amount |
| 42 | All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing . |
| 43 | It 's best run full screen , as well , since running it in a window seems only to give you a partial view of the full-screen image , and no scroll bars appear to allow you to see what 's happening in the bits that are n't shown . |
| 44 | Normally I er put a banana and a strawberry together to give it a different taste . |
| 45 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
| 46 | Their desire to escape the rain might hurry their attack — not much but enough to give him a small advantage . |
| 47 | Unfortunately this was still not enough to give them a parliamentary majority as the Legislative Council contained four members who would be nominated by the Governor . |
| 48 | ‘ I would really prefer to teach girls , but this school was kind enough to give me a part-time job when I wanted it , so here I am ’ . |
| 49 | Unfortunately Infinitary rule 1 as it stands is not strong enough to give us a complete system when the set of basic values is infinite . |
| 50 | So giving us a total income for the year of about a hundred and twelve thousand pounds . |
| 51 | ‘ You 've ruined my Gnome costume and perhaps lost me a lovely bicycle . ’ |
| 52 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 53 | But when I said as much to Mala , as a joke to ease the tension that still showed in her eyes , she merely called me an unrepeatable name and stalked away to her cabin again . |
| 54 | It was only to teach her a little lesson that I 'd added some nail-varnish remover to the ephedrine in that nasal spray she carried around everywhere . |
| 55 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |
| 56 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 57 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 58 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you the whole story right from the beginning . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I guessed , ’ he replied , and suddenly gave her a lop-sided grin — and all at once Leith discovered she was feeling most unexpectedly lighthearted . |