Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before . |
| 2 | ‘ What makes you think I even possess such clothes ? ’ |
| 3 | I do n't think I quite understand this Allan . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think I really had any doubts about them , ’ she said slowly at last . |
| 5 | And I think you 'll agree , it is a difficult I mean I always stress this point about attitude , that a lot of problems that we get in our advice centres have been made worse because the customer has caused er you know argument or a scene |
| 6 | As for the class of goods , where commercial goods are concerned the party acquiring them presumably has some expertise in relation to them which gives him the capability to assess their quality or to understand if he needs to call in an expert assessor , so that less protection should be required in this case . |
| 7 | Ah , how come I never get any cuddles like that |
| 8 | Mathematical and computer-assisted models , for example , can enhance the data obtained from six subjects in an LD50 test which previously killed many times more than this . |
| 9 | It is thus not surprising that there is no single psychological theory of driving which adequately describes all components of the task . |
| 10 | who do you know who actually fits that description ? |
| 11 | Has she still got that boyfriend . |
| 12 | She 's sh she 's a bitch , she 's a oh has she still got that horse ? |
| 13 | You say she always ringed that calendar , is that right ? |
| 14 | ‘ I want you ter take this letter ter your sister Mary . |
| 15 | Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order . |
| 16 | Police say they still want more witnesses to the incident . |
| 17 | We might need it yet to do another bit . |
| 18 | The 34-year-old still managed to win 21-17 , 21-9 against Cooke , who has been struggling to find his best form all season . |
| 19 | Which reminds me , has anyone else seen that Radio 5 billboard advert which says ‘ We also cover Arsenal , Wimbledon and Crystal Palace . |
| 20 | No , what I meant , is if saying that if I camped onto that number over there 3414 , and if that phone becomes free , this phone starts ringing and I might be doing something , so by the time I 've picked it up to make that connection , suppose 3414 is then making another outgoing call , do I have to camp on yet again to 3414 ? |
| 21 | That does n't last for ever , and it 's not easy to psych yourself up to get another job after you 've been given the push . |
| 22 | Anselm himself never quoted this analogy , but he went so far as to warn the pope that if he gave an adverse judgement in the dispute between Canterbury and York ‘ I would on no account remain in England ; for I neither ought to , nor can allow the primacy of our church to be destroyed while I am alive . ’ |
| 23 | In a way this new fight against censorship is an opportunity not simply to defend and ensure intellectual freedom but to affirm that a profession does exist which essentially safeguards this freedom . |
| 24 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 25 | What we have here is , is a huge sheet of this material on the wall , and the visitors stand in front of this and press a flashlight which allows them then to make all sorts of poses on the wall , and as they then move away , their shadow is left on the wall so they can look back and see what their , their shadow was like in the pose . |
| 26 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |
| 27 | And er if I can help it I 've got to erm do me best to stop that happening . |
| 28 | Okay , let me just finish this section then we 'll take er we 'll er we 'll take a break to er take a break for the rest of the day actually yes . |
| 29 | let me just finish this game |
| 30 | Let me just , le I 'm not really a , I 'm not really a very numerate political scientist but let me just run some numbers by you to give you an idea of the escalation of the change . |