Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that or you run yourself around ragged , and you go to sleep and then we get to one o'clock , two o'clock in the morning , and you wake up , and then what do you do ? |
| 2 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 3 | How people use this and they put it in the dictionary . |
| 4 | We we just have this weird notation that we write it like this and we say it like that cos squared Z what we mean |
| 5 | We want satisfaction , we want completeness in life , and so we try this and it gives it for a moment , but when it 's finished we 've got ta try something else . |
| 6 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 8 | They are patronising and they insult us by not understanding — and ignoring — the real requirements of our time . |
| 9 | She might lose him but for now he was as enslaved as she was and Maggie caressed him as he caressed her until his kisses grew more demanding and he turned her beneath him again . |
| 10 | Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel . |
| 11 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 12 | Having secured his freedom , his sexual appetite continued unabated and he threw himself into an even more vigorous life of carnal debauchery . |
| 13 | After all , these services are free and we take it as a compliment if you ask . |
| 14 | It came free and he threw it at me . |
| 15 | ‘ But all the people who took part were very , very brave and I have nothing but admiration for them all . |
| 16 | We use them as rubber and you hold them in your arms , alright ? |
| 17 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 18 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |
| 19 | Because one of the typewriters is broken and she blamed it on me . |
| 20 | Their glasses were empty and he took them to the bar for a refill . |
| 21 | The careful and precise manner in which these financial arrangements were laid down suggests that many who served saw the war as essentially a business enterprise holding out the promise of substantial rewards for those who were fortunate or who distinguished themselves in the field . |
| 22 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 23 | We 'd always get so much and we used it in rotation . |
| 24 | I do n't know what it is , but it oh it 's carrying me down , I know that much and I have it for years and years . |
| 25 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 26 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 27 | It sounded ridiculously lame and she cursed herself for sounding so weak and ineffectual , but miraculously he seemed not to notice . |
| 28 | It was too much but she loved him for it and let him kiss her when he came and stood beside her again . |
| 29 | I was nervous but she put me at ease immediately . |
| 30 | It 's a screen about this big right and you put it on your dashboard and plug it in to your cigarette lighter and er it 's like a control centre and if there 's been a crash |