Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matter that has given me most cause for admiration is the way in which he has conducted himself while the horrible events have gone on and been reported in the press . |
| 2 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 3 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 4 | that disputes will be settled by the witness ( grandmother ) , whom all agree to be objective and fair-minded . |
| 5 | You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children |
| 6 | This basic categorical imperative bids me only act on such a maxim as I can will should become a universal law to which all rational agents conform their behaviour . |
| 7 | I wholly agree with the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook that it would be inappropriate to oppose the Bill on Second Reading , but , like the right hon. Gentleman , I intend to look closely at what happens to it during its passage through the House . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure I altogether approve of that . ’ |
| 9 | For the reasons that I have given , I am sceptical of the existing system and therefore I rarely speak on such motions . |
| 10 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 11 | I 'm not what you 'd call the retiring type , and I rarely flinch from a fight when I 'm sure of my own righteousness ; but there is one thing I can not cope with , and that is unprovoked aggression . |
| 12 | I rarely go to her house and I do n't think she 's ever been to my flat , but our friendship is very much part of our working lives . |
| 13 | I 'm doing all these books , writing things and life is too short , time is passing too quickly , so that 's why I like my houses so much , and why I rarely go to other people 's houses . |
| 14 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 15 | I rarely drink in the week , and I 've never acquired a taste for wine . |
| 16 | I rarely talk to my parents these days , or visit the family home . |
| 17 | That 's what I most remember about it : pain like you would n't believe . ’ |
| 18 | But then I lose what I most want from it , that it be in a room with other objects . |
| 19 | ‘ The books I most admire in the European tradition are , ’ he says , ‘ 19th century novels by the great Russian writers and by English writers like Jane Austen and George Eliot . |
| 20 | Nor that I thereby hope for immortality : |
| 21 | Sir , I wholeheartedly agree with Dr Stephen Smith 's comments ( News , July 12 ) on behalf of the NFU that charges for advice services to our hard pressed farmers should be realistic . |
| 22 | I fundamentally believe in Britain as a part of Europe . |
| 23 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 24 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 25 | The one I mostly chat to is the biology teacher . |
| 26 | They drive me to distraction : at first I refuse to fight back , on the grounds that life is sacred and it is not their fault that they are mosquitos , but I eventually join in the swatting that punctuates the quiet every so often . |
| 27 | As I hold them I slowly sink to the deep dark bottom . |
| 28 | This was an expensive learning experience but one I gladly share with you . |
| 29 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 30 | I rather differ from the Rt Hon. |