Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mostly I sort of own it , ’ he enlightened modestly .
2 I have never had the chance to put properly my side of the story .
3 Perhaps my reputation as a coureur emasculates Stuart .
4 Perhaps my notion of wilderness is romantic and hopelessly out of date , but I have to say that I find paragliding an intrusion .
5 Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy .
6 Perhaps my opinion on morality 's changed , you know , that there is right and wrong and all this and that you 've got to accept people .
7 ‘ Once I began to put together my chain of companies , I had certain responsibilities to the people I employed , ’ Julius said in the same curt tone .
8 In 1912 he insisted , against opposition from the foreign ministry , that Prince Lichnowsky be appointed to the London embassy , saying " I send only my ambassador to London , who has my confidence , obeys my will , fulfills my orders with my instructions " .
9 I have no anger , only my love for him , ’ said Mrs Pratley .
10 Also , it 's only my word against theirs . ’
11 One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information .
12 It is only my subscription to Punch that stops me from taking a midnight walk off the roof .
13 This is of course only my opinion on this particular offering from the author and many book type programs available are worth every penny .
14 I have to say that from my point of view — and this is only my point of view — it is not a page-turner .
15 ‘ The will was made about a year ago and this is what it amounts to : ‘ The shop premises and stock and all assets pertaining to the business together with the contents of my studio excepting only my tube of Winsor blue to my niece and dear friend Cathy Carne ’ . ’
16 Erm Right , well , that 's basically my input except erm Wednesday daytime , what are you doing ?
17 I earned quite a lot of money though so Oh I was in a really good mood , I woke up this morning in a really good mood , so I kind of danced into work
18 Well it on my doorstep and that makes sense to use it , so I sort of wriggle down there and have to keep me out of er Southampton er Boat Show .
19 I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively .
20 Bule reservoir to come out at Lamberhurst in the village so I sort of circled it
21 So I sort of was called to look at it , and I said oh yes , all the people I know who have got those are over seventy .
22 What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ?
23 I thought I do n't like all the he 's gon na fucking have me , so I sort of got down like that and as he fucking come round the thing must of gone like that , sort of that sort of bearing .
24 The same with me — the older I grow , the better my chance of becoming a great-grandfather . ’
25 Coming here and sitting by this monument , re-reading these great essays , these testaments to all that is best in use , is just a way of delivering personally my letter of thanks .
26 Well , you can imagine the Colonel at that stage said emphatically ‘ NO ’ , and so my debut into cabaret was dramatically finished .
27 So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . "
28 Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York .
29 And so my tour in Mespot came to an end , I gained my " wings " on 13 June 1935 and was promoted to sergeant .
30 So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario .
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