Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 2 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 3 | Nails put them on because he had no choice , the mood Biddy was in . |
| 4 | He waved them on as he turned the corner , and began to run . |
| 5 | It matters to me greatly that we have a reputation for taking these big issues and dealing with them with independence and rigour . |
| 6 | ‘ It does n't worry me morally but I have a lot of sympathy with those who do n't think it is very attractive . |
| 7 | We had two statements before us : Teddy Mayer 's of McLaren , who had asserted that drivers were ‘ just interchangeable light bulbs : you plug them in and they do the job ’ and Bernard Ecclestone 's classic , ‘ no driver is worth more than $25,000 ‘ . |
| 8 | She was about to pop them in when we heard the strains of the rag and boneman 's cry . |
| 9 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 10 | He was intrigued to analyse her dreams and encouraged her to write them down before he discussed the hidden messages they may have contained . |
| 11 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 12 | See they ai n't got the concrete roads down to put them down when they bought the farm off Sam years later . |
| 13 | Again , you can still quote them if you wish — it 's the employer 's job to track them down if they want a reference . |
| 14 | Hammer them down until you get a sale . ’ |
| 15 | Dawn overtook them long before they reached the Esk , or even the Lyne . |
| 16 | I wanted him to tear it from me so that I had no excuses . |
| 17 | Went to Rubella 's in the evening but they would n't let me in because I had a bit of instant Whip on my Brummy vest . |
| 18 | Mrs Rumney herself let me in and I felt a shock of surprise at my first sight of her . |
| 19 | I waved to him to follow me in and he snuffed the Nissan 's engine and climbed out . |
| 20 | Well you mix up er you mix up some colours , black and er and black and wh i stuff Bismarck brown which Mix them together and you make a colour to match up the rest and maybe bring in darker streaks and make a pat You know what I mean ? |
| 21 | If we score got a chance and we had the chances to score first half , did n't take them obviously and we get the goal , right time , they went a bit nervous , and we went on did n't we — we could have won it . |
| 22 | You talk to me only when I ask a question . ’ |
| 23 | My shorthand also let me down when I attended a local inquest . |
| 24 | I though when they won the league they were bad but it is getting worse with each passing day . |
| 25 | She should have said , I do n't know where you got these things , but please put them away before somebody sees the sun glinting off them and assumes it 's me spying on the guests . |
| 26 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 27 | Where they are not specified , use them anyway if you want the best performance from your detector . |
| 28 | The East Europeans complain that these accords penalise them just where they have a competitive advantage — in textile , steel and meat exports . |
| 29 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
| 30 | And let me just before we take the music remind you of er the front page of the daily mirror today . |