Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |
| 2 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 3 | Mary , my eldest sister , had taken the day off work and had washed the curtains but for lack of time to dry them properly had hung them back up wet . |
| 4 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 5 | ( The first block has given them enough experience to pinpoint their anxieties more accurately , but not enough to overcome them . ) |
| 6 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 7 | The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality . |
| 8 | They began to busy themselves cheerfully with preparations for the meal , one or other of them constantly trying to engage Moran with this small thing or that , until he was drawn by their uncanny tact into the general cheerfulness . |
| 9 | I could n't stand me 'ome gettin' tore ter pieces , an' they 're so smelly , ’ she moaned . |
| 10 | Yes , eventually I did put it down to your job , worried about Steve being so long away and anxious to tie up the contract , but there was a worse fear — that you just did n't love me enough to want to stay with me . ’ |
| 11 | The heads of the Valuation Department guaranteed me enough work to justify my continued employment , one of my many visits taking me to the Channel Islands during the ‘ phoney war ’ , while the enemy were occupied with Russia . |
| 12 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 13 | The tug which had linked and drawn them together had gone . |
| 14 | He produced a U.S. dollar bill , took a Canadian dollar from me and a Russian five-rouble note , stuck them together end to end , had the group sign them , and dubbed me a ‘ short-snorter ’ . |
| 15 | On top of that many of them necessarily have to divide their time to allow for the other tasks for which they are also responsible . |
| 16 | If and in so far as there are any presumptions which assist in my conclusions ( and I instinctively dislike introducing presumptions in reaching a decision of fact as crucial as this ) , the presumption that a state of affairs continues until the evidence suggests that it no longer pertains is more to the point than the submission of Mr. Levy that the sanctity of life is so vital an interest to protect that if I am in any doubt that should take precedence . |
| 17 | ‘ I rarely bother to use my title , ’ Roman murmured drily , ‘ as your mother knows very well . ’ |
| 18 | Further points were discussed , for example the need for public liability insurance , which I duly went and arranged ; the need for ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ signs at each end , which I duly had made ; the need to take care , when working , not to disturb the kicking stones ; and the need to avoid making heaps when distributing the spoil , so as not to impede the grass cutter . |
| 19 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 20 | Newcastle are a team that are pushing Scum close as ‘ bastards I most hope get demoted to division 3 & loose a play off final to Scarborough ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 22 | many of the critics I most admire have taken all the latitude in the world , and have earned the right to such freedom by the extraordinary power of their perceptions , many of them being achieved by critical reverie . |
| 23 | And where would I most like to spend the rest of the day ? |
| 24 | One part of me , despite George Crowninshield 's reassurances , anticipated that the twins would emerge as shambling twitching wrecks , and for a second , believing my worst fears , I bitterly regretted accepting the senator 's charter . |
| 25 | I secretly longed to upset his balance but never succeeded , except in the making of poetry , in which he was compelled to tilt towards me . |
| 26 | The 41-year-old duke said last night : ‘ I can not morally stay within a party which I fundamentally believe has ideologically gone off the rails . ’ |
| 27 | You 're a part of that — part of the solution to a problem I badly need to solve , and I need you , and you 're going to stay here until we 're finished , and you 're going to do what I tell you to do . |
| 28 | I badly wanted to know his opinion on the Anwar business , but obviously he was n't in the mood for it now . |
| 29 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |
| 30 | ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me . |