Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saved up for us to have a holiday , I booked a caravan and paid the coach fares and then on the morning we were due to go he said , " I 'm not going without a penny in my pocket , I ca n't , I ca n't . " |
| 2 | Yeah , erm , I was going to is that erm it was always the same , two jobs down so it was due to go his boss would have then I 've been there as well cos he 's caused such a stink |
| 3 | And probably be an idea if you remind me sometime during that week when I 'm due to see you . |
| 4 | The Albanian leader could express his shock at the gangsterish methods of Gheorghiu-Dej in the late 1940s without for one moment admitting to himself , let alone to his readers , that he was even remotely hypocritical given his own tendency to resort to rubbing out rivals personally ( including shooting his prime minister and long-term comrade-in-arms , Mehmet Shehu , in 1981 ) . |
| 5 | This was discussed with Mr Brown and as a result he was given a variable height bed which could be kept low to enable him to get in and out easily . |
| 6 | Surgeons tried in vain to sew it back on . |
| 7 | In fact Waugh had just written to him as a stranger to thank him for his ‘ ingenious and delightful allegory ’ — his gratitude all the warmer because , as he flatteringly remarks , he had tried to buy a copy and found it sold out . |
| 8 | ‘ That represents its ploughing yoke , ’ she told Chola . |
| 9 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 10 | You know you could put in up to seventeen and a half percent , that represents you know |
| 11 | When that failed they attempted an exorbitant rent so I intervened . |
| 12 | When that failed his remains were stuffed into a sack and dumped in the Lagan . |
| 13 | That failed you as my own gave up the ghost . |
| 14 | When that failed he refused to approve the king 's trial and execution . |
| 15 | ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left . ’ |
| 16 | Say no more than that and that wins you a prize . |
| 17 | Can not they too be committed to the view that philosophy must deal with matters of fact , and that to claim something as a matter of fact one must be able to state what observations would in principle establish its truth or falsity ? |
| 18 | The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age . |
| 19 | We have received so many messages and letters that it is just not possible to acknowledge them individually . |
| 20 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 21 | PC Williamson , from Portadown , Co Armagh , who was separated from his wife , was due to attend his niece 's wedding tomorrow . |
| 22 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 23 | When Lord Hawke in 1925 made his famous remark about the undesirability of a professional ever captaining England , Fender responded in the socialist Daily Herald by calling his lordship 's comments ‘ a gratuitous insult ’ to professional cricketers . |
| 24 | you were busy last night , is that what it was , did that knock you out ? |
| 25 | That made something inside her snap . |
| 26 | That made me feel good too . |
| 27 | That made me move in a hurry . |
| 28 | That made me feel a bit of an outsider . |
| 29 | That made me real sad , cos she was my best girlfriend . |
| 30 | That made me feel I must have done something to deserve this . |