Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know how badly I behaved that night ; but I was wild with jealousy . |
| 2 | oh let's have a carton of custard , seventy nine right , we 've got one of those , right I want pasteurized milk four pints one oh five , oh that 's not , no great saving is it ? |
| 3 | If I see anything on the subject it goes into the file , and eventually I have enough material for a book or an article . ’ |
| 4 | Eventually I decided that assimilation was not possible , given Culler 's lack of interest in the interpretation of particular texts and his commitment to the uncovering of the generalized principles of literariness . |
| 5 | Most importantly I added some text that was to be part of the finished work . |
| 6 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 7 | I mean there 's a , there was a programme on I watched last night , on the sea or ? |
| 8 | And the zinc comes along and pushes the hydrogen out , it says , Hang on I want that sulphate . |
| 9 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 10 | Rather I make short jabbing strokes like the pecking of a chicken . |
| 11 | At first I was angry at him , frightened for him , but now suddenly I get this rush of joy , watching him race out there into the cold level space of the stilled river , free and warm and vivacious in that smoothed and frozen silence . |
| 12 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
| 13 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
| 14 | Well basically I think this fight , his chance is he 'll probably win , but this fight is a bit of a joke ; it does boxing no good whatsoever . |
| 15 | ‘ If only I had that opportunity such a rewarding experience working among people of that type . ’ |
| 16 | He said , oh if only I had that power ! |
| 17 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps I prefer cold air to hot air , ’ he suggested urbanely , his eyes darkening with what could have been amusement at her spirited defence of her career . |
| 19 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 20 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
| 21 | But perhaps I give that impression because I have strong views on certain subjects and because I do n't go in for the social whirl , for fast cars and fast women . ’ |
| 22 | I thought it was very interesting indeed all the information , and obviously I think one question is which schools are now going to be called in that were n't here before , and will that lead to a better distribution of collection points across the city ? |
| 23 | And I put balanced it out across this , and I set my camera down er down below , on a time exposure which runs off in about one minute , so I had one minute to run up the side of the thing and get out here and balance myself . |
| 24 | and mum had two glass fulls , but she did n't drink hers so I had four glass fulls . |
| 25 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 26 | So I ask this congress to watch closely this benefits agency , and let's make sure that the sick and maternity grants get paid correctly to what they are entitled to . |
| 27 | So I sprinkled this stuff inside every pair of knickers in the drawer and then folded them all up again carefully . ’ |
| 28 | Well that 's a fourteen inch grate , fire a fourteen inch grate but you 've got the gap all round it like so I thought eighteen inch . |
| 29 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 30 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |