Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must indeed apologize for my … irritation , ’ he said and produced his most disarming smile . |
| 2 | Maybe I should just stay in my tank , and make the most of the City . |
| 3 | I should just concentrate on my own children . ’ |
| 4 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 5 | And I believe there 's some roadworks at Stafford , I might even get on my teletext and look and see what roadworks are on the M six , I may even give the A A a ring , to say , but it 's all on teletext and this sort of thing . |
| 6 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 7 | ‘ OK , we 'll get out , but I 'll never submit to your caveman tactics . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll now return to my shepherd 's pie . ’ |
| 9 | No doubt , since you fear I 'll maybe return to my painting before my plaster 's dry . ’ |
| 10 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 11 | If I could just get to my room . |
| 12 | ‘ If I could just listen to your chest , get some idea of what 's going on in there ? ’ |
| 13 | My feet were sometimes so painful and swollen that I could only walk with my heels out of my shoes . |
| 14 | And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment . |
| 15 | I could hardly look at my dinner when I got home . |
| 16 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 17 | I could never move from my flat — that would be like leaving Percy behind . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I could never survive on my own . ’ |
| 19 | I believe in coil-tapping because I like single coil-type sounds , but all this parallel/series switching is something I 'd probably avoid on my own guitar . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd rather stay under my own roof . |
| 21 | ‘ Really I 'd rather stay in my room . ’ |
| 22 | And we 'd start I 'd just turn with my right hand to join both ends of the rope and then we would be turning again . |
| 23 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 24 | I 'd just lie on my back like Marie showed me and float like a fag packet . |
| 25 | I 'd sooner think about my insides than think about my face or my body . |
| 26 | I read one once and it was the best comedy I 'd ever read in my life . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're managing just fine , I 'd only get in your way . |
| 28 | I 'd happily part with my money just to hear the sensational Philadelphia/Ormandy Rachmaninov Vocalise ( ‘ Never mind the meal , just turn down the lights ! ’ ) . |
| 29 | I can not think of any United States naval officer whom I would sooner have in his place in those near-impossible circumstances . |
| 30 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |