Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came over to me I fully expected a slap on my kisser , I being the known ring-leader . |
| 2 | I mean I I once had a job , it was booked Er now what do they call the road ? |
| 3 | I I actually have a bucket of cold water just behind the door and I could n't care what age they are , whack . |
| 4 | Preparation for this type of surgery may be shared with the stoma care nurse and/or the patient may sometimes be introduced to someone who already has a stoma . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've found someone who really has a problem . ’ |
| 6 | Unkind critics of the Amstrad , er , Sinclair PC200 have suggested it would make the ideal present for someone with everything , as you would n't give it to someone who actually needed a PC . |
| 7 | When you accept criticism from someone you also build a relationship with that other person . |
| 8 | In the sixteen years since , it has sold 75,000 copies , and people are still finding it helpful , and I myself often take a chapter for meditation , when my own spirit feels low and dry . |
| 9 | He teased me about the way in which I always created a background for these exhibitions , isolating them from their surroundings , by arranging a roll of six feet high gray or white corrugated card in columns and bays . |
| 10 | Well actually I feel a lot happier if you say that , because can I actually one of the first questions you asked , which I never got a chance to answer , though Terry did , was which what sort of criteria one would use to say that a Prime Minister 's good and erm I was sort of thinking of that as Terry was answering and I think the thing I came up with is you want somebody who represents , or is sensitive to at least , a very wide swathe of views across the population , but also someone who 's intelligent and caring enough to take into account the minority views , and you want somebody who 's aim is to make most of the people happy most of the time , sort of thing , erm but who 's also prepared to take unpopular steps erm if he believes it 's necessary . |
| 11 | Last season , I had one which I never got a chance to use : - ( . |
| 12 | ‘ But I told ye I only saw a shadow . ’ |
| 13 | The FOURTH stage will be the selling and — realising that the only sensible sale is one on which you actually make a profit — getting paid . |
| 14 | You can do things ( functionality ) for which you really need a network ( specific ) . |
| 15 | One notes with approval the prominent place given to The Daily Telegraph in the order of daily reading ; her ‘ oldie ’ taste for a Roberts radio , which she surely calls a wireless , and a telephone heavy enough to act as a doorstopper . |
| 16 | Higher degrees are of two basic kinds — taught degrees ( for which one normally sits an examination ) and research degrees ( for which one normally submits a thesis ) — and of three basic levels . |
| 17 | The commission of crimes against them will have the effect of diminishing their positive freedom , to which they also have a right ; for example crimes of injurious violence reduce the victims ' freedom to operate physically free from pain , while property offences will deprive them of resources and thereby remove their freedom to choose to act in ways which require the use of those resources . |
| 18 | Dedicated kite flyers had been aware of the Sanjo Rokkaku for ages , largely through Tal Streeter 's excellent book The Art of the Japanese Kite ( Weatherhill , New York 1974 ) in which he vividly described a visit to Toranosuke Watanabe , the Shirone kite maker who specialised , as did generations of his family before him , in making these hexagonal Rokkaku fighters . |
| 19 | His descent continued : his job talking rubes into a San Francisco strip-club was his most reputable career during a period in which he also became a heroin addict , a pimp for his next bride and an armed robber ( he once pinned a victim 's hand to the floor with a knife ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I do feel , ’ Rune was continuing with the same reasonable approach with which he doubtless addressed a board meeting , ‘ that we need an in-depth discussion about its capabilities and design before we consider the best way to market it in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 21 | He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree . |
| 22 | for which he then gives a number of convincing reasons . |
| 23 | The committee bases its views on the experience of Depo 's use in conditions for which it already has a licence . |
| 24 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 25 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
| 26 | An old woman made older by the suicide of one whom she still considered a girl . |
| 27 | alright , mind you I still get a bit nervous now , I get a bit do n't know why , I always |
| 28 | You were — are — everything I ever dreamed a woman could be . ’ |
| 29 | She appeared to have sufficient buoyancy forward to lift her over the next wave instead of burying the foredeck , something which normally prefaces a broach . |
| 30 | That is , all apart from this one which now employs a handful of people . |