Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and someone , I do n't know whether it 's the director , or someone actually says this play is , is the half hour , quarter of an hour , chat say , this is what the play 's about |
| 2 | The Grant Hall Hotel was next door to Zion United Church where I still spent many weekday evenings in boys ' work , and it was now handy to finish at the church and then cross over to the radio station for the late night shift . |
| 3 | ‘ But at the time I do n't think Kylie or anybody else had any idea of the phenomenal success she would have . |
| 4 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 5 | It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't remember that I ever saw that page . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
| 8 | Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows . |
| 9 | I unashamedly admit that I sometimes use this song as a form of social control . |
| 10 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 11 | So it 's pretty obvious to me that someone else used this apartment in your absence ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor . |
| 13 | Personally I like to keep things as simple as possible , so I always relate this concept to the relative major key even if I 'm dealing with a song which is in a minor key . |
| 14 | ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph . |
| 15 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 16 | Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening , apart from a little gold eyeshadow , blusher and lipstick . |
| 17 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 18 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 19 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 20 | She prayed that Steve would n't see the truth — that she still loved that man , passionately , even though he had deceived her so , and that her heart was breaking inside her . |
| 21 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 22 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 23 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 24 | If children witness a quarrel , but then see that you still love each other , they will realise that a row is not the end of the world and will learn that it 's all right to fight — as long as we make up later . |
| 25 | While it is desirable that you too feel that way about it , it is essential that the person to whom you are delegating sees the task as valuable . |
| 26 | The Dalek 's power was conducted through the floors so you instantly dismissed any idea of the city being built from house bricks . |
| 27 | And you may find treating the pain in the day means it 's not so bad at night so you actually get more sleep anyway . |
| 28 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 29 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ The children like convenience foods such as sausages or fishfingers and chips so we sometimes have that sort of thing , and occasionally we buy a takeaway from the chip shop . |