Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old girl may have updated her image and cleaned up her act , but those eyebrows still crash together when she frowns . |
| 2 | Mrs Fishfinger 's Koi — they eat better than I do … |
| 3 | Well I know , I mean especially if you know the people , what 's the point of being formal if you know the people ? |
| 4 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 5 | if , if you go for a swim right , and you with your contact lenses in , I always wear my goggles over the top , I mean obviously if you dive |
| 6 | I mean basically when we look at the range of council services , then you have to take decisions about the balance of spending between different priorities . |
| 7 | It fits that account better than it fits others , including a probabilistic account of which a bit more will be said . |
| 8 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 9 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 10 | So in theory , you do n't have to save your work , and exit properly before you switch off ; the AccuCard will remember where you were and return you there next time you switch on . |
| 11 | I laughed and said , ‘ I sleep better than you do . ’ |
| 12 | However , there is no doubt that we all fly better if we fly regularly and it is a good policy to fly whenever you have the opportunity . |
| 13 | Say so if you do n't . |
| 14 | ‘ Coming out of the office place opposite where I work . |
| 15 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 16 | But that afternoon , something made her hesitate just before she stepped out from behind the curtain . |
| 17 | It 's the sort of place where the pigeons fly backwards because they do n't want to get muck in their eyes . |
| 18 | You say away when you mean come here . |
| 19 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 20 | Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark . |
| 21 | In practice those doubts melt away when you realize just what drugs we had in mind . |
| 22 | I say usually because it depends on how the card has been marked . |
| 23 | Mm I say probably cos they 've been done . |
| 24 | Some appear automatically when you begin a certain task ( the Chart toolbar appears when you start work on a graph ) and others live under the Options toolbar in the menu . |
| 25 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 26 | And thanks to a smart directory — a custom-designed programme by Richard himself — senders can track down the person they want even if they have only the recipient 's first name , or just the vaguest idea of their title or where they work . |
| 27 | So he said yes you know , they say well if you want to be paid it means people 'll have to be sacked and all this , well you know ! |
| 28 | I say surprisingly because I happen to know Tod is n't squeamish . |
| 29 | I also have a flat in Belgravia in London , and , when I 'm spending my working week at Silver Star Navigation , I occasionally sleep there if I have a late dinner appointment . |
| 30 | Unpretentious yet beautiful orange brick and pantiled watermills , trout farms and farmhouses rest peacefully in isolated spots and cosy little hamlets appear unexpectedly as one turns of a bend of a woldland way . |