Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is , I want everything for a very long time — forever . ’ |
| 2 | MICHAEL WINNER and I ceased to be on speaking terms after I described him as a very average director who made very average movies . |
| 3 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 4 | On the new LP it will say something like ‘ Free samples if someone uses it in a really creative way . ’ |
| 5 | I mean as I say now , how can you turn round to a to a bloke who 's , well does n't matter what his on , eh , what , what ever his , his rate of pay is , how can you turn round to him and say you ca n't have more than seven per cent , and his got , his got something like a about twenty five , thirty per cent . |
| 6 | This way , Dad and I get you for a little longer . |
| 7 | Now , I know it is sometimes bad to be very narrow in your outlook but I think it was a good idea to focus on , we consider as a pretty high priority and make as much progress as we can , without forgetting other things and try and teach ourselves to do something within a fairly short space of time . |
| 8 | I spent it in a heavily gardened suburb of Hamburg called Eissendorf . |
| 9 | I remember everything to the very last moment . |
| 10 | One clearly libidinous writer gives thanks for my providing him with a far from platitudinous substitute for an invitation to come up and look at etchings . |
| 11 | That particular night — it was on a Wednesday evening — instead of keeping the ball low , I returned it with a very uncontrolled kick and bang ! |
| 12 | I believe too that this analysis must proceed historically , which is why I approach it via the now familiar historical detour . |
| 13 | I ca n't imagine any person seriously interested in art in any part of the world not being a subscriber , and I congratulate you on an ever improving publication . |
| 14 | Shall I tell you about the very first little baby ? |
| 15 | That 's all I though of it about , I saw it as a really as er each stage performance was like an orgasm . |
| 16 | I 'm just going to pay a call anyway before I leave it to the very last . |
| 17 | ‘ I love you in a very special way and I knew you would understand . |
| 18 | I regard it as the best kept secret . |
| 19 | This pleasant hotel with first-rate service is composed of a collection of cottages ; I prefer it to the more expensive Fort Aguada , also owned by the Taj . |
| 20 | Her father Dr Annad Sheel Ahuja , of Bolton , Lancs , said : ‘ I left her in a perfectly good state . ’ |
| 21 | I expect I did , but I never know , I 'm so afraid of losing things that sometimes I take them into the most unsuitable places . |
| 22 | ‘ I can assure you I have it on the very best authority . ’ |
| 23 | Finally I for one would nt be too bothered if Howard left.What he has done for the club will always be remembered , but no one man is bigger than the club ( apart from maybe Don ) , and I have it from a very good source that if Howard leaves the club , Leeds will soon run into 15 million quid.Is he worth that much ? |
| 24 | I see it with a rather different gloss . |
| 25 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 26 | I see it as the so to speak Preface to the Prolegomena ! |
| 27 | Last September Airtours bought the Pickfords Travel Service business in a deal which established it as a fully integrated holiday company with an airline , tour operations and travel agents . |
| 28 | The comparative study of political systems and especially public policy-making has given rise to the belief that the distinction between politics and administration is artificial and that the role of administrators can not be settled by a definition which relegates them to a purely instrumental position . |
| 29 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |
| 30 | Leslie Brent was in Dovercourt for three weeks before going to Bunce Court , a happy chance which put him into the most favoured category of child refugees . |