Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lend money secretly to whoever needs it but charge interest much higher than the Lombards or Venetians . |
| 2 | Er put the next bit on for me save me the job say Nottinghamshire 's Big Bang . |
| 3 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 4 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 5 | I 'll tell you where I had terrific service once , I ca n't remember what it was for now , it 's it 's a shop , it 's called Arcade Records because originally it was in the arcade , but it 's now just above the Cannon Cinema in between you know on Chapel Bar on the left hand side . |
| 6 | You can increase your chances of success by raising the kicking foot sufficiently for it to travel horizontally into the target . |
| 7 | Noticing the creative/fantasy element in their talk , the teacher encouraged them , once the castle was finished , to make up a story together about what happened in the castle , while she wrote their ideas down for them . |
| 8 | and I mean he walked through the door , I walked through the kitchen in like you know , and the back window , the kitchen window like . |
| 9 | yeah , but that in which case I think you should try and tie the story in with it became in like the canteen |
| 10 | ‘ It has been a long hard season for Nigel , and obviously he 'll be a little bit down after what happened at Wembley , ’ said Bingham . |
| 11 | Then we had tea together with me sitting up in bed in my dressing-gown . |
| 12 | As she was led towards the back of it , there was time and light only for her to take in a number of doors on either side , a pervasive smell of must , dark wood panelling , and the central staircase leading to an upper gallery that ran left and right above . |
| 13 | She wiped enough blood away for them to see that it was a clean cut , the edges easy for Miguel 's skilful fingers to pull together . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm afraid not , Miss Kingsdale , ’ he apologised , and , as he passed a reservation card over to her to complete , Fabia , with her thoughts totally elsewhere , discovered that she was doing just that . |
| 15 | And er did you enjoy your tea yesterday with I did n't come because er I thought |
| 16 | Lead oxide ( PbO ) increases the optical refractive index , bending light more as it enters the glass ; ‘ flint ’ glass for optical elements and ‘ crystal ’ glass for tableware take advantage of this . |
| 17 | Gilbert shrieked when the strip light directly above them exploded , and sparks rained down on their heads . |
| 18 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 19 | Marvin is a Liverpool fan but played for an Everton junior side last season and has still not made his mind up for whom to sign . |
| 20 | Seeing that the Annamese would otherwise be left abandoned , he remained beside them , shifting uncomfortably from one foot to another , searching his mind frantically for something to say . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State is therefore increasing from four to eight the number of full-time inquiry reporters in the Scottish Office Unit , the setting up of which has in itself reduced the time involved in arranging inquiries and submitting reports . |
| 22 | The two situations complement each other , although there was no intention originally for it to turn out that way … ’ |
| 23 | She reached up , holding his face between her hands , drawing his mouth back to hers to kiss him with an open-mouthed urgency that sent them both spinning out of control . |
| 24 | Geoff 's put all that weight back on he lost ? |
| 25 | But I do n't know there was no attempt really to he went down after Laws had tackled him . |
| 26 | Why do you think it might be important that we think about what we say and how we say it on the telephone ? erm There is a gap here for you to respond ! |
| 27 | If there is any standard criterion today of what constitutes a nation with a claim to self-determination , meaning to setting up an independent territorial nation-state , it is ethnic-linguistic , since language is taken , wherever possible , to express and symbolise ethnicity . |
| 28 | I filed a recommendation today fer you t'be promoted to detective sergeant at th'next board . |
| 29 | Images shape our thinking sometimes without us knowing NI looks behind the lens to translate the language of photography . |
| 30 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |