Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [pron] [adv] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 2 | It 's different if you 're paid to come here to give a talk and you put up a poor show but if you 've volunteered then er I think er you know you you really ought to have a different approach to . |
| 3 | And another time ooh another time she went er somebody I tell you they always used to run for my mother when there was trouble and er a woman had hung herself just round the corner to where we lived . |
| 4 | Erm he , I think what he really must have had was er a sort of mild form of polio when he was young and he 'd got a shoulder , not completely paralysed but it was partially paralysed . |
| 5 | Well you know er , as I said , I think really an awful lot of it is in your own perception of , I mean what someone here might call emotional abuse , I would just regard as a challenge . |