Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
2 | He greeted me politely and we quickly got into conversation . |
3 | My hon. Friend 's remarks about a single currency alarm me greatly because I much admire his intellect , not to mention the fluency of his speech . |
4 | The universities may treat them as advisory and act upon them only if they so wish . |
5 | I do n't care as long as they know them so that somebody else has got some responsibility , she said I just ca n't be getting away with it and and , and erm being irresponsible . |
6 | ‘ At least I 've seen more of the town where I live than I ever saw from a carriage or on horseback . ’ |
7 | I think the heat can get a bit much for ya also if your not used to it . |
8 | Perhaps he fancies me like so he still did n't take no notice . |
9 | Or if you right and they just want you to smack his face , then he is not in another gang — he is one of they . |
10 | I want you to know and I think that you do — that I love you more than I ever did before , but in a slightly different way . |
11 | She more than anyone else understood her husband 's obsession and his overriding ambition to become Australia 's first ornithologist ; she even encouraged and implemented his aims . |
12 | ‘ I did not want you here and I certainly do not want Ana 's life complicated further . ’ |
13 | He treats you abominably and you never say a thing because , you say , he does n't like women who complain . |
14 | I was so excited to see you again that I completely forgot to ask what 's happened to your business . |
15 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
16 | Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact . |
17 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
18 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
19 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
20 | He was not quick to anger and confrontation ; shocks caught up with him slowly and he usually faced them in solitary depression rather than by throwing a scene . |
21 | Guido had come to a halt , turning round to face her so that she almost ran right into him . |
22 | I said I would give them to him only if he later gave me his weapon . |
23 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
24 | All accomplished — does it not seem plain ? — to bring her finally where she now rests . |
25 | Obviously they thought that by letting this sort of thing out they would have an excuse for putting him away if he ever attempted to call their bluff , " Ha ! " they would be able to say , " Crazy ; read too much SF . |
26 | It seemed to come from nowhere , it transformed him utterly and it invariably caused her anger against him to feel quite suddenly totally inappropriate . |
27 | Carrie looked at him sharply but he simply seemed to be in an unusually good temper . |
28 | Females tend to disperse themselves among the males but in cases where a male has an especially good territory a female may opt to breed with him even if he already has a mate , rather than go for one without . |
29 | Gilbert with his horn-rimmed glasses and walrus moustache was popular in Canada , but I did not get to know him well until we later met on at least half a dozen occasions for lunch in London . |
30 | She watched him covertly while he deftly impaled a wedge of fillet steak on his fork , and put it in his mouth . |