Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I nearly got a ticket as well . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I nearly made a mess of things . ’ |
| 3 | By the time I get I get kids something each I never have a lot left I was only saying that with one thing and another and and I said there she is worrying about her Caroline worrying about she 's going to manage . |
| 4 | I very rarely feel any curiosity about Christabel 's life — it 's funny I even feel a sort of squeamishness about things she might have touched , or places she might have been — it 's the language that matters , is n't it , it 's what went on in her mind — ’ |
| 5 | While admitting that it was originally the understatement of German earnings which led to this move by the German analysts , in this we nevertheless have a model on which to work . |
| 6 | Tom was clean and dry during the day shortly after his second birthday , but at over 3½ years old he still needs a nappy at night . |
| 7 | In Fig. 5.1 we also have a demand curve for bills , . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been dead worried about you , it did n't seem right you not having a fella and liking children and all . |
| 9 | oh it 's very smart I have to say that , I mean when you 've got something like that you only need a skirt and a top |
| 10 | Fucking lucky I never had a knife in me hand were n't it ? |
| 11 | Building up relationships was very much like collecting little islands — you jumped from one to another to another to another — and if you were lucky you eventually had a network . |
| 12 | In May 1647 they even prepared a draft peace-treaty in French ; and if this had been accepted by the other powers involved it would have marked an important stage in the establishment of the language as that of international relations , at least in western and central Europe . |
| 13 | After that we never missed a cut together . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure I never saw a letter about it , ’ says Pamela defensively . |
| 15 | A Get your hair trimmed regularly and make sure you always use a conditioner such as TiGi Linea 's Instant Conditioner . |
| 16 | But perhaps your first mistake was to think that a shop could give you totally impartial advice — their prime concern was probably to make sure you actually made a purchase and from them rather than elsewhere . |
| 17 | No no it 's , it 's very good he actually had a go and the rest of you were sitting there dumbfounded by the question . |
| 18 | In late 1909 he also published a pamphlet , The One Life . |
| 19 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 20 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 21 | cos as far as annual reports are concerned you just want a statement from Hugh , and a rough idea of how we 've performed financially . |
| 22 | That subletting was widely practised can not be doubted , for not only in the cases examined was the number of proven freeholds relatively small , but , even in regions where they were most numerous they still formed a minority of all holdings . |
| 23 | He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton . |
| 24 | The emergency doctor was called , the doctor phoned for an ambulance , and for Alice to be taken to hospital , but when the ambulance staff tested for her blood pressure , it was so low they hardly got a reading . |
| 25 | If he was claiming a grant in yours , I did I claimed when I went back to college , my twenties I actually claimed a grant but my father claimed income tax relief claimed under him . |
| 26 | And all the impurities are left in the beer so even though you do n't have the benefit of getting drunk you still get a hangover . ’ |
| 27 | At the conclusion to Chapter 1 we provisionally adopted a multilevel concept of style , whereby more or less equivalent choices at a particular linguistic level could be seen as STYLISTIC VARIANTS , and in which these variants could be associated with STYLISTIC VALUES , or special significances associated with one variant rather than another . |
| 28 | At first we also ran a lot together , but that came to an abrupt halt on one particular morning when twice within a couple of 100 yards I had to stop , complaining of chest pains . |
| 29 | On August 2nd he needlessly started a war . |
| 30 | ‘ I would put Schmeichel in that group and at 27 he still has a lot of time to improve . ’ |