Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [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 | When you accept criticism from someone you also build a relationship with that other person . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Last season , I had one which I never got a chance to use : - ( . |
| 8 | ‘ But I told ye I only saw a shadow . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You can do things ( functionality ) for which you really need a network ( specific ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree . |
| 17 | for which he then gives a number of convincing reasons . |
| 18 | The committee bases its views on the experience of Depo 's use in conditions for which it already has a licence . |
| 19 | An old woman made older by the suicide of one whom she still considered a girl . |
| 20 | alright , mind you I still get a bit nervous now , I get a bit do n't know why , I always |
| 21 | You were — are — everything I ever dreamed a woman could be . ’ |
| 22 | We you just get a phone call from us that says , Here 's here 's your next assignment . |
| 23 | We , even even that is is that we we we we we even had a party on faxing , did n't we ? |
| 24 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 25 | Now er we we already had a license for an earlier version of EARS which in er in fact was in Aled 's name from the last general election but one . |
| 26 | We were sharing it out between four so we got we we always say a quarter I think I think it 's a good idea the way the Americans say a fourth cos you can it ties it up with the four shared out between four people . |
| 27 | While I was with him I even developed a liking for steak tartar . |
| 28 | Thanks to her I still had a roof over my head , but this economic patronage subtly altered relations between us in a way that did nothing to improve my self-respect . |
| 29 | While burying him we sure found a lot of other bodies . |
| 30 | And they they even had a gun in with them and if they did n't go by the third shot They fired in the air you see . |