Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rune 's tone was casual , but there was nothing lazy about the way he leaned across the table towards her . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , Ken was apprehensive about the position I might inherit when I touched down . |
| 3 | The twelve-strong RAF team plans to bring back twenty wounded for the treatment they desperately need . |
| 4 | Bingham must get it right for a match I feel we can get a 0–0 draw or a 1–0 win out of — yes , I 'm serious ! |
| 5 | Roget gives , in one paragraph , words and phrases that are closely related to a word or a phrase that came into your mind but is not quite right for the sense you are trying to convey . |
| 6 | Her mouth she kept a pale peach , knowing that a stronger colour lipstick would n't be right for the effect she wanted to create . |
| 7 | Come on , if they 're asleep during the day they ought to be woken up . |
| 8 | Changeable as the weather I 'd say . |
| 9 | Adam had been right about the contacts she could make , but her mind was no longer in tune with business this evening . |
| 10 | This helps you to know as much as possible about the targets you are trying to reach . |
| 11 | If you are a sales person , one of the important parts of the job is to know as much as possible about the people you are selling to . |
| 12 | And he was incredibly supportive during the year I was struggling to get this record released — more of a help than most of my friends . ’ |
| 13 | Zaidie 's deposition , it should be added , contained a statement that about 20 or 21 December 1986 , on Zaidie 's return from his honeymoon in Miami , the defendant had telephoned him and had said he was sorry for the threats he had made against the lives of Zaidie and Paulette . |
| 14 | Sorry for the way I behaved , for the way that we parted ? ’ |
| 15 | And I 'm sorry for the way she treated you . ’ |
| 16 | If you could go to her , genuinely sorry for the hurt you had caused her and knowing that you had come to terms with your conflict about the difference in your ages , then maybe she might be willing to consider starting again . |
| 17 | I do n't know wen I 'll see you agen , but I 'm sorry for the things I did , and I 'm ashamd . |
| 18 | I felt sorry for the gypsies you know in Cross Street |
| 19 | ‘ I want to say sorry for the mistake I made . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt so sorry for the council I almost sent THEM a fiver . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not saying I did n't lift my arm and I 'm sorry for the embarrassment it has brought on the club and our supporters . |
| 22 | I know this is tough on you — I 'm sorry for the pressure you 're going to be under , you poor old thing . |
| 23 | The Business Location Service is extremely grateful for the support it has been given and looks forward to even greater success with its partners in the year ahead . |
| 24 | So although those carers in the action sample were grateful for the help they received from the Home Support Project ( and almost without exception carers throughout the action samples expressed the same sentiment ) , there is scant evidence that it contributed to allaying feelings of strain . |
| 25 | A large number of disabled people take part in the Telethon and are grateful for the help they get from the telethon . |
| 26 | He spent a week there and is grateful for the help he was given . |
| 27 | After the events of the night she met his gaze self-consciously , grateful for the excuse he had given her to drop her eyes . |
| 28 | Erm that 's putting it bluntly because erm obviously being a volunteer is a sort of two way thing , we could n't run without volunteers , we 're very grateful for the ones we 've got but So it 's clearly a matter of whether you decide and whether you like the way we like to run things or or not . |
| 29 | Now I think what erm and my feelings on this er are very much er similar to Mr Donson 's and I 'm grateful for the calculation he has done for us all . |
| 30 | ‘ We are very grateful for the donations we receive from charitable organisations like BLISS , but in the last two to three years there has been an additional £800,000 investment in special baby care units from Mersey region . ’ |