Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 2 | Trouble is , there 's only me that eats it ! |
| 3 | Why is it only me that gets the rats ? |
| 4 | It 's not only them that suffer — it 's the bairns as well . |
| 5 | So nothing that happens to you in the course of your life can possibly change your genes , because they 've already been copied . |
| 6 | So me and got the , the ice packs out of the freezer . |
| 7 | Got a packet for when we get home so I that 's got to make my . |
| 8 | Owen said he wanted to go , and I said do n't go , come over and hassle , so I and run off . |
| 9 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 10 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 11 | Perhaps your secretary or some other intelligent person can sit alongside you and jot down , unobtrusively , the main points made by other speakers and indicate who is speaking so that you can look at them and glance at the notes alternately . |
| 12 | If you are a self starter and have decided on your own initiative that your boss needs yet another report , then check that you do possess convincing evidence that the issue is significant and it is not merely you that wishes to seem important . |
| 13 | You can hide in your shell whenever you get that feeling inside you that tells you you are angry . |
| 14 | ‘ The thing inside you that tells you what you are , ’ said the Thing . |
| 15 | This seemed to be a place where , despite noises in the night and a few dangers like trees that grew inside you and made your throat choke , a person might feel sale for always . |
| 16 | So , if the retailer moves the tea or coffee every few weeks and replaces it with another product ( perhaps one that does n't sell as well ) he can bring it to the customer 's attention . |
| 17 | Sometimes make a contrast — follow a lively travelling movement , perhaps one that goes at random with a smooth sweep of movement performed in unison . |
| 18 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |
| 19 | The house seemed full of silence ; and suddenly everything that had happened earlier led to this . |
| 20 | There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed . |
| 21 | This process is not only one that occurs in everyday life , but has also to be carried out by scientists in the laboratory , or by coroners in coroners ' courts ( Atkinson 1978 ) . |
| 22 | she 's only one that 's left she 's got to do her own |
| 23 | ‘ Presumably they 're attracted to you , one way or another , so any warnings should come from you , and there 's only one that seems relevant in the circumstances . |
| 24 | The ‘ boy labour problem ’ was a feature of the larger social and political issues which dominated the Edwardian era , and obviously one that came to be taken seriously by contemporaries , in terms of the efficient functioning of the labour-market in general , and of specific problems deriving from the market , such as un- and underemployment , industrial training , casual and unskilled labour and , in the wider sphere , poverty and family morale . |
| 25 | Law is not a business ; nor merely is it a profession , which is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as a vocation or calling , especially one that involves some branch of learning or science , but is one of three learned professions . |
| 26 | Choosing the right car is a hard task , especially one that fits a better quality of life . |
| 27 | Especially one that moves quickly ? ) |
| 28 | It 's a touch disappointing when a Windows product comes on one disk , especially one that costs as much as Financial Controller — you rather get used to having eight or ten high density disks to feed into you machine . |
| 29 | What does one do with an old piece of linoleum , especially one that covers another old piece of linoleum . |
| 30 | A good thesaurus or list of subject headings is not necessarily one that has been carefully presented , printed and published , with a plethora of effective relationship displays , but rather a list that has been compiled to serve in the retrieval environment in which it is called upon to operate . |