Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modular or unit credit courses are currently the subject of much discussion in higher education , but interest in them in this country dates back to the 1970s ( much earlier in the USA ) when , for example , the Nuffield team produced a report on them rather facetiously called The Container Revolution ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Now she 'll transmit in code every hour , on the hour , and you 'll read those signals and write them down then give a receipt . |
| 3 | I 've seen them down there have a big bone through that , have they , looks as if that 's been boned |
| 4 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 5 | Cressid , I love thee in so strained a purity , That the blest gods , as angry with my fancy , More bright in zeal than the devotion which Cold lips blow to their deities , take thee from me . |
| 6 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 7 | I need a , I so desperately need a shag . |
| 8 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
| 9 | I better not put a star on this one though had I cos |
| 10 | I only just caught the train , and when , a quarter of an hour later , we pulled in to Lochgair , and I should have got my bag and quit the Sprinter and walked to the house and finally have talked — sober , and not in the context of a game of Alternative Charades — to my father , and apologised , and spent the three hours until the next Glasgow train with my mother and father in some longed-for spirit of reconciliation , I did nothing of the sort . |
| 11 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 12 | ‘ Actually I only ever drank the odd beer , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Perhaps I 'm still punishing him by penning this recollection , or am I perhaps finally laying the ghost ? |
| 14 | Well I not only got the job , I was made principal ( and that another miracle ) and Douglas not only supports me , He 's going to join me later . |
| 15 | My world of science is so much richer than theirs , because I not only know the systematic names , but I am also fluent in the trivial ones , the scientific nicknames which allow us to chat about science over coffee . |
| 16 | That day , I not only forgot the can of fruit and the opener when I sat down to lunch , but was up and down , putting on more clothes and trying to find the most sheltered spot in relation to the wheelbarrow . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ Sweetie , do n't forget I not only need the right man for me , but the right stepfather for Dickie . |
| 18 | I just always remember the sad spectacle of him floundering against Sharpe ( or was it Giggs ) in that semi . |
| 19 | And I erm , just picked that up in a garage some place , thought it was such a cool , I just really liked the picture . |
| 20 | And then I just never understood a word of what he said . |
| 21 | Er , I used not to do that , I used to put everything in one list , and then my home telephone was cut off one time , er , because I just never regarded the personal things as being terribly important until , you know , I do n't have to pay well over a hundred quid to get the thing fixed again . |
| 22 | But , erm , unless it 's freezing cold , I do n't like it , but I just absolutely adore a cold , a cold long glass of milk . |
| 23 | so did I , I just about chuck the |
| 24 | After pipping Swedish pair Per-Ulrik Johansson and Fredrik Lindgren , by one shot , thanks to birdies at the last two holes , he said : ‘ I was so far away I just about saw the ball disappear . |
| 25 | I generally only knit the ribber at a looser tension and leave the main bed at its usual ribbed tension . |
| 26 | I once again felt the great current of war , the European death-wish , rushing me along . |
| 27 | I once more smell the dew and rain , and relish versing . |
| 28 | I once more smell the dew and rain |
| 29 | Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ? |
| 30 | So here ended my first tour and I could not claim that I ever actually had a clear view of any German target , save that which we did locate with the aid of Jimmy Marks ' experiment northeast of Rotterdam in mid-June 1940 . |