Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly I was absolutely certain that this woman was Estella 's mother . |
| 2 | They — the earrings — belonged to my mother , so I value them , and naturally I was very concerned when I realised that I had lost — ’ |
| 3 | Only I 'm so wet and exhausted … and my feet ache … ‘ |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm quite wrong and Pickles is serious . |
| 5 | So er it looks as if the decision 's against , so I 'm almost sure that the decision at Johnstown will be against . |
| 6 | I 'm a very new driver so I 'm very careful and very cautious , not a very good pedestrian , I tend to wave a fist and walk out whereas I always give the other person , you know I always sort of wave them on whereon in the car being a very new driver I am very cautious |
| 7 | So I 'm actually glad that this is one that you 're actually prepared to discuss . |
| 8 | So I 'm quite relaxed and they 're attacking the costs as well . |
| 9 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 10 | It was the first time her father had hit her and he looked upset , but suddenly she was very calm and her voice was steady as she said , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 11 | I looked at Mum and thought if only she was as nice as she looked maybe all our lives would have been better . |
| 12 | And who knows ? — perhaps she was still upset when she smelt the fire . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps you were just unlucky and got a rogue one , ’ she offered helplessly . |
| 14 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 15 | Perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery . |
| 16 | So she is as interested as I am in our surroundings : china cabinets full of dishes and ornaments inherited from the households of several unknown and long-dead cousins , armchairs with bloated cushions , a piano that no one has played in forty years . |
| 17 | So she 's quite scheming and erm , would you say money grabbing character ? |
| 18 | So she 's quite pleased that she 's put them on to it , it is difficult . |
| 19 | So she was inexpressibly relieved when Tom Russell said , ‘ And since I 'm daunted by Faye 's problems as well , I 'll be visiting almost every day . ’ |
| 20 | So she was very cross when she found that there were no flowers to pick . ’ |
| 21 | I 've never thought of her in any other way and never will ; she may look like you , physically , but inside you 're as different as you can possibly be . |
| 22 | ‘ Basically we 're as different as chalk and cheese , and we have completely different life styles — for a start I 'm a family man , and he 's not . |
| 23 | Perhaps we are more shortsighted than we think ? |
| 24 | And I 'm sure you 'll see them in operation tomorrow , we 've got six bowlers in all so we 're fairly confident that we 'll er bowl whatever the conditions . |
| 25 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 26 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 27 | And the vicar did pick this up in his sermon and he did mention the Co-op Womens ' Guild and so we were very proud that we 'd been mentioned you see , you know . |
| 28 | And together we were emphatically co-operative that neighbouring forces were populated by lesser mortals . |
| 29 | We might find it hard today to agree on a description of the differences between women and men — and perhaps they are less marked than we used to think . |
| 30 | So they were pleasantly surprised that sales of Impressionist and ‘ modern ’ art were near the top end of the houses ' estimates , even if ‘ contemporary ’ art foundered . |