Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may presume that the standard of living of both these groups was above the national average , and that this could have given them better resistance to disease than their poorer neighbours . |
| 2 | But he used to buy them and send them down home by train , and we used to cart them by horse and cart from the station . |
| 3 | Why , it is in the power of Jesus to whom all authority in heaven and earth is entrusted ; this Jesus is with them always in their mission , to the end of the age ; and naturally , therefore , they baptise men not only into the possession , the ‘ name ’ , of God the Father and the Lord Jesus , but into the sphere of that Holy Spirit who makes real to them the presence of the risen Christ , and empowers them for their work of making him known ( Matt. 28:18–20 ) . |
| 4 | He mixed her a dry martini from a collection of decanters on a silver tray — nothing so arriviste as a drinks cupboard or private bar — set on a small table . |
| 5 | Most of them only sound as if they are . ) |
| 6 | But away from the cameras few people gave them much chance of a future together . |
| 7 | They gave them much latitude in day-to-day operations and allowed them to mould law and order policies according to counter-insurgency theories . |
| 8 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 9 | Yes I must say I , I personally sympathy with that I mean I think that erm , women 's er role is er very much despised and disparaged it should be because if you think about it they 're having the children and bringing them up , well this is one of the most worthwhile things to do |
| 10 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 11 | Well I just kind of was running round the shop because I was |
| 12 | This profile is for samples that I just north of South Georgia in the south Atlantic in nineteen eighty six . |
| 13 | I du n no what to do , so I just sort of stand there . |
| 14 | So , what I do is , I just sort of rub my teeth with my fingers . |
| 15 | My head 's spinning , so I just sort of lean there a bit and have a rest . |
| 16 | ‘ I just sort of taught myself , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 17 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 18 | The rest of the week I just sort of tidy round , dust , put the carpet sweeper over — that takes me till a quarter past three , when I go to meet my little girl from school , and I do n't very often get much done once she 's home … |
| 19 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 20 | Can I just sort of say I 'm I 'm somebody working on a team er , that deals with eating disorders . |
| 21 | I never actually spoke to anybody about boyfriends , contraceptives , intercourse , whatever , I just sort of picked little things up , I thought if you were under sixteen either your parents came with you or you do n't get anything . |
| 22 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 23 | When you came can I just sort of take you back again ? |
| 24 | I just sort of |
| 25 | Yar , I think I got a copy but I just sort of filed it with all the Quality Manual stuff , as there were various different things which needed . |
| 26 | looked around and said well he said looked at me said er well cos he was just about to g throw a wobbly and say , well surely the sales department should be dealing with this , should be should be giving him the information and he he just turned round and gave the aforementioned quote and I just sort of went yes it is . |
| 27 | And I could n't stand physics , I just sort of |
| 28 | You can do what I always do , which is I just sort of casually throw mine away , erm , because I just find it clutters the binder up otherwise . |
| 29 | I , I just sort of made erm two short ladders about two inches long . |
| 30 | I had to go and collect grandma you see to take her to the station , and I did n't have an awful lot of time so I just sort of ran round and collected whatever I got . |