Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to see me a year later , total loss of weight , total short of breath , hardly , she 's struggling to keep body and soul together . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 3 | It did n't look er odd it looked okay so that would make me a bit more confident I think a bit less self conscious . |
| 4 | A harmless grass snake , I concluded , although I must admit that the proximity of the Reptile Centre did make me a touch more circumspect than usual as I made for the summit . |
| 5 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 6 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 7 | If you got me a microplane right now I would get into it and fly it . |
| 8 | I 'm not eating them every day though . |
| 9 | ‘ You realise he hates me every bit as much as he hates your father ? ’ |
| 10 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 11 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 12 | Mrs Dare 's given me a job already . ’ |
| 13 | She glared at me , dug beneath her cloak and pushed a purse ( much leaner than the one she had given me the night before ) into my hand . |
| 14 | ‘ Then they have given me the slip again . |
| 15 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 16 | No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do . |
| 17 | ‘ Dear God , woman , you 've given me an idea there . |
| 18 | Right , depends what the and quite honestly , if you bring these down and make them a bit more romantic |
| 19 | Should cut the gentlemen on Foggy Bottom , or wherever , down to size and make them a mite more civil and cooperative in future . |
| 20 | You can freeze these buns or make them the day before and keep in an airtight container . |
| 21 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 22 | The bitterness of repeated daily confrontation with left-wing majorities has given them a steeliness entirely absent from the old-fashioned candidates . |
| 23 | ‘ Send me a postcard then . ’ |
| 24 | You were looking a bit sorry for yourself when we came back cos he buys flowers and he gives , so he 'll buy them the day before , I got the next day , there their making in all that |
| 25 | Of the fact that , however hard you try to adopt that indifferent expression , underneath you want me every bit as much as I want you . ’ |
| 26 | It was down to the practice ground in the gloom for Jack and myself but I managed to get a message to Sally to meet me an hour later than planned . |
| 27 | Seeing as you did n't buy me a pint today |
| 28 | She owes me a letter , thank heavens , somebody who owes me a letter instead of vice versa . |
| 29 | But you get to know lots of others to talk to and that and on trips to away matches then you get to know them a lot better . |
| 30 | Yes with with the membership being on the doorstep , we do get to know them a lot better . |