Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 2 | IT 'S ONLY WHEN YOU COME TO A CLUB LIKE THIS THAT YOU APPRECIATE WHAT THE GAME OF FOOTBALL IS ALL ABOUT ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I just want to make clear that I pay you every correctitude for what you were involved in there . ’ |
| 4 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 5 | ‘ She would n't tell me , but was very insistent that I call her the minute you got in . ’ |
| 6 | Good grief it must cost them a fortune to erm you know , pay for all these then , so they give you the Walkman to , while you 're doing this and they give you the batteries , tt |
| 7 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 8 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 9 | But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss . |
| 10 | It 's good no I tell you why I thought they were crap cos you gave me an album and it had the had Dancing in the Moonlight and that was good but all the other songs on it were really shit . |
| 11 | But if you imagine when you were about this high and someone gives you a ball to kick and you you fall over and you , Right I 'm not trying that again . |
| 12 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 13 | Again , you 'll see a good example of that , where closed questions are good in a situation if you want to get a direct answer to somebody who tends to waffle , but again , if you 're asked closed questions and you want to give information , it is harder , it 's easier if you ask somebody an open question and on the film , John Cleese comes up with the starters to an open question , which are the Who , What , Which , Why , Where , When questions . |
| 14 | I find it unpleasant and it gives me an allergy so I 'd rather you did n't from my point of view . |
| 15 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 16 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 17 | The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools . |
| 18 | She can do this because she understands what the enquirer is saying . |
| 19 | ‘ You can tell me all about this while you pour me a drink , ’ he said quietly and they went into the kitchen . |
| 20 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 21 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 22 | Who could the woman be , who admired him so much that she sent him a valentine ? |
| 23 | My legs are warm and I give them a feel . |
| 24 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 25 | At the time Lady Moon , 54 , said : ‘ It was all so easy and it gave me a hell of a buzz , better than drugs . |
| 26 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 27 | I understand just as much as you do what the dangers are . |
| 28 | Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit |
| 29 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry if I gave you a fright . |