Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the silliness of Dynamite was offset by Charles Bickford 's excellence as the condemned-to-death miner , and Wallace Beery was very much the real thing in The Champ ; for the most part though it was the newcomers who received most praise . |
| 2 | Meals are eaten communally for the most part and we will meet together regularly for worship times . |
| 3 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 4 | Alan Murphy , 25 , from Alexandria , Strathclyde , told the Princess he was exercising to put on weight as he had lost six stones after breaking his back in a car crash . |
| 5 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 6 | Commission officials , however , have argued that if given no alternative , fishermen will carry on fishing until there are no fish stocks left . |
| 7 | However , I warn people against lumping together pindown and what has been happening in Leicestershire . |
| 8 | Well thank you very much Chairman and I 'd like to thank members for their , for their comments and the general welcome for the budget . |
| 9 | It is entirely coincidence that we have now given up pies for Lent . |
| 10 | But by all means if you 've got something bring it along and that would give us a starter for five I 'm keen to see us also trying to once we 've got this going going down the S P Q road ah had lunch with the other day at I mean it was I mean she was n't meeting him necessarily wearing a B A I E hat of not um and I think she I think she touched on that though while while while they were lunching. erm I put down progress because I was thinking of the Pilgrims Progress at the time |
| 11 | It is of course penalty kicks at goal which slow down play and I would deal with them very drastically , as in these modern days they quite often determine the result of a match . |
| 12 | To put the level of risk in perspective , one study concluded that anyone standing all day at a busy roadside with traffic containing 20 per cent diesel would be exposed to 1,000 times less benzo(a)pyrene than somebody smoking 10 to 15 cigarettes a day . |
| 13 | Some of them are only fighting because they think they 've got nothing left to lose . ’ |
| 14 | It just slows you down so that there are no longer enough hours in the day , and then some things get put off and other things are only half-completed and you 're told you need help — an assistant priest , no less , to concentrate , as the Bishop with his unfailing instinct for the wrong word put it , on ‘ the donkey work ’ ( well , perhaps after all I was only a beast of burden , Father McGiff conceded ) to give you ‘ a chance to relax , take life more easily , think a bit more , pray a bit more , meditate ’ . |
| 15 | But how much longer can these companies survive with nothing to sell to bring in revenue but plenty to spend money on ? |
| 16 | I 'm only thinking that you 've got somebody counting ? |
| 17 | Finally , visualise the positive outcome that you desire : perhaps confirmation that you are 100 per cent fit , that you have passed your exams , or that your finances are secure . |
| 18 | The fact that it has won it eight out of ten years is n't registered , only glee that it has been beaten . |
| 19 | Either to , you know , write down delegation that you 're giving somebody , and then photocopy it and give it to them . |
| 20 | But er , you know , I mean , I know it 's only practice and you know how far you got ta be in front of the other whatever ! |
| 21 | So that 's the only , only instrument that you generally see , actually see using it in most , most schools . |
| 22 | But then again , rock'n'roll is basically rhythm and you 're never going to get away from what that 's about … ’ |
| 23 | I 'm only dancing cos I ca n't stop shaking . |
| 24 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 25 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 26 | Residents of Middridge , a pleasant enough village if you like Whitbread 's beer , will pay £243.56 poll tax in the coming financial year . |
| 27 | She was a nice enough girl and he felt sorry for her . |
| 28 | I was only listening because I was bored . |
| 29 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 30 | Ease down exercise when you 're pregnant , say the experts |