Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [coord] [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was stopped all right but it was n't as simple as poor McQuaid made out . |
| 2 | Mrs Smith comes home from school four times during the day to make sure her mother is all right and she is also usually up three or four times in the night to attend to her mother . |
| 3 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 4 | But , of course , Mr Major is no snarler , and , as he said to me , he thought he was tough enough already and he was n't going to change because he would then be a phoney . |
| 5 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 6 | It was all over so quickly but I was completely terrified . |
| 7 | Susan paused , as if the moment had happened only yesterday and she was still finding out how she felt , ‘ … you think : How strange , how commonplace , how dangerous . |
| 8 | About 300 metres of each , I 've torn to make the covers so far but I 'm still doing it because each one has to be the right size and colour-coded by room . |
| 9 | We are , as ever , delighted with the responses we 've had from artists so far and we are currently working with a superb international line-up which includes Alexei Sayle , Spinal Tap ( reforming specially for the show ) , Spitting Image , Julian Clary , Dave Stewart ( performing a specially composed number ) , Jason Donovan ( duetting with Kim Wilde ) , Tom Jones , Roger Daltrey ( with The Chieftains ) , Lisa Stansfield , EMF , Seal , Beverley Craven , Midge Ure , Mica Paris , and , as they say , many many , many more . |
| 10 | Of course you can only take this covering-up operation so far and it is sometimes prudent to remake a part . |
| 11 | Not close enough though and they 're now in the bottom three . |
| 12 | he says he does n't go out so often but it 's more a question of qality and not quantity … its tough to stay on top but he goes out to Florida most years to train and learn the new techniques |
| 13 | The wind got up swiftly here and it was already quite strong tonight . |
| 14 | " not advisable to adopt the suggestions of the Visitors : the School in its present state works exceedingly well and it is very doubtful if a more extended course of the higher branches of education would be equally beneficial to the great mass of residents in Stockport and its vicinity , who are anxious to avail themselves of the instruction afforded to their children in the School as at present constituted . " |
| 15 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 16 | Former racing driver Stirling Moss said he was absolutely staggered , adding : ‘ I saw him not too long ago and he was exceptionally fit . |
| 17 | funny mind , we were just speaking about funerals not that long ago and you were just saying like er you remember the , when he died , |
| 18 | The publications you produce may well fit into a set of identifiable categories ; brochures , newsletters , flyers , books , manuals and so on but it 's how you produce them that 's important . |
| 19 | She 's erm she 's a waitress in Chester so it can shows you how much cross section we 've got and erm she said her and her boyfriend was coming up to Blaenau to be on the picket line and so on and we were quite friendly with her . |
| 20 | They are a I mean , quite honestly these courses are these things erm they 're not gon na do them you know , they 're not just sort of fairy things you 've got quite a bit of erm thinking to do and and so on and they 're pretty exhausting ! |
| 21 | I never meant it to happen , and I never meant to hurt you , Helen , honestly I did n't but it just kind of happened to me , and I thought I had to tell you , because I did n't want to … to cheat you and so on and I 'm really very fond of you , and I 'm sorry . |
| 22 | Well I 'm all there but they 're even more there . |
| 23 | I can remember that so vividly and it 's still going today so that 's saying something for British Steel erm it was local , you know the erm the one at er |
| 24 | Well I hope so too but it was n't the whole object of the exercise . |
| 25 | He said Tim ‘ went ever so quietly and it was very peaceful ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ But he did n't — he went ever so quietly and it was very peaceful . ’ |
| 27 | → The news of Ollie Halsall 's death reached us only recently and it is indeed sad that we have never run a feature on him . |
| 28 | It 's easy enough and it 's pretty interesting . |
| 29 | Another two moved on shortly afterwards and it was then that the intimidation began . |
| 30 | Another problem was his feathers : he was n't growing down quickly enough and he was always shivering , so Maureen made him a little coat out of cotton wool . |