Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last Friday I was there as usual with a few mates . |
| 2 | Oh going back to the apprenticeship you were more or less left as you stood because I I thought that journeymen were very what 's the word very er they were only too willing to let you know what was going on and when you think about it you can see why . |
| 3 | You got be an hour , an hour and a half arter you were home afore you could leave them . |
| 4 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 5 | The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range . |
| 6 | I mean it 's same with Marks and Sparks , you buy owt at Marks and Sparks it 's only because when they have them packed , they 've got to put their name on it . |
| 7 | I swear to you that when I kissed you in Ib 's Club it was simply because I could n't resist the temptation . |
| 8 | This is the Central Television Percy Thrower Trophy , very handsome trophy it is too and it 's going to be presented to the best gardener around here ; that 's after the break . |
| 9 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 10 | If she did sense an added aura of poignancy it was probably because in less than two weeks Tivoli would close its turnstiles and remain dormant until its spring awakening at the end of the following April . |
| 11 | At this lowest level of British industry it is almost as though struggles are not expected to occur , let alone be won . |
| 12 | Sir John condemned large advances for authors as ‘ sheer folly ’ ( although he admitted that while they were still common practice he was more than happy to receive one ) , and wondered whether as more publishers ‘ linked into bookshops ’ EPOS systems via EDI there would still be a long-term need for wholesalers ’ . |
| 13 | Where such clauses are included at the wish of the parties it is always as well to go on to spell out the consequences of the failure to agree . |
| 14 | There are a lot of people saying that Mike Martin Pipe is not the force he was etcetera but there 's been a change of policy down at and if anyone thinks that Pipe has lost his touch they 're talking twaddle . |
| 15 | The standard deviation on the gravity data is less than 30μGal and on the elevation data it is less than 1cm . |
| 16 | Well , whenever women are at a disadvantage it is usually because somebody has put them there . |
| 17 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 18 | You show grandma what a big boy you are tonight and you talk to her nicely on the phone and you |
| 19 | If you have any built-in cupboards or closets you are home and dry — literally — as far as storage is concerned ; if you have not , and there is really no room at all for any sort of full-length closet , have a hat stand or , failing this , a row of hooks to take not only your own family 's coats , but those of visitors . |
| 20 | One glance was enough , even through the swirling flakes , to tell Shannon she was well and truly stuck . |
| 21 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |
| 22 | If the law of economic torts is in a mess it is largely because of uncertainty over what constitutes unlawful means . |
| 23 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 24 | I ca n't speak for everyone , but whenever I find myself eating in a pub it 's usually because raging hunger has overcome the judgement of discriminating palate . |
| 25 | Three of the Länder have a larger electorate than Lower Saxony — in North Rhine-Westphalia it is more than twice as large — and consequently more MdBs and longer party lists . |
| 26 | Floats it in towards Kennedy the chance must be here for Ray it 's there and it 's Kennedy . |
| 27 | For Tip it was probably because he very nearly did not caddie for Arnold Palmer at all . |
| 28 | I mean it 's not a major issue I mean it is an issue it 's not a major issue it 's just that there have been one or two occasions like where we have cross purposes but considering you know they are a relatively minor tour operator I would n't want that to muddy the water because that was just just erm a misunderstanding . |
| 29 | When a pope next called a Council it was only because the French king , then at war with the papacy , had called one of his own . |
| 30 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |