Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would take a time to catch and then she could heat the water & cook Alisdair 's breakfast . |
| 2 | There are a lot of people here in your position and we 've got to try and please everybody , which is n't an easy job in this place I can tell you . ’ |
| 3 | Telecom Eireann is seeking more than £200m from European Community structural funds to re-build its telecommunications network : it is also ensconced in discussions with the Irish government over tariff re-balancing ; the state phone company 's financial difficulties have been exacerbated by the 10% currency devaluation which has added £50m to its debts of some £1,000m ; and is likely to halve and worse its profits this year to some £40m . |
| 4 | I , I said near time , I advising people it 's nearly time , when it is time they will most certainly know and emphatically it 's time . |
| 5 | Descartes , so the story goes , reached this conception because , unlike his predecessors , the Aristotelians , he was obsessed by epistemological questions — that is , questions about what we can know and how we can know it . |
| 6 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 7 | In summary , we do not know and perhaps we can never know if babies experience pain as the word is understood by adults . |
| 8 | They 'll they and they you 'll see them going mm not that not that one back to the first I do n't know and then they get the dictionary out . |
| 9 | erm Brighton generally , Sussex , anything anybody thinks they do n't know and then they think the University would know , and they just ring us up , which I suppose somebody on the campus will know , but you do n't always , ca n't be able to find them always , so it 's quite difficult . |
| 10 | If one finds out , then everyone will know and then you will be in trouble . |
| 11 | I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident |
| 12 | and sort it out , let me know and then I will take it down to work |
| 13 | They went into the er Molly , she was telling me erm she with a bloke , I ca n't remember the they think he 's got ta go to Paris first and then , or France , there 's a show in France somewhere , I think it 's Paris , I do n't know and then he 's going over there , they 've had some more enquiries or something . |
| 14 | No I I I did n't know and now they send saying you have n't signed ! |
| 15 | When they had gone , Michael Swinton let a small silence fall and then he said , ‘ We had better make the lie a truth , I think . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 17 | His appearance record shows that , once Ron had gained a position in the team , he became difficult to displace and probably his best spell with the Palace was as a regular member of the team that finished 1952–53 with such a creditable run of performances . |
| 18 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |
| 19 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
| 20 | As a consequence , the local Age Concern Groups differ markedly in what they provide and how they provide it . |
| 21 | This we promised and so I tell you Perestroika had not yet reached that part of the world . |
| 22 | More water will be attracted and therefore you get a high tide in this region . |
| 23 | He was consumed with desire for the possession to come and whenever he could he tried to add to the 45/ in the Post Office Savings Bank so that they could spend some time away together with Dad Uzzell . |
| 24 | Sometimes er when especially the the er older element have been so delighted that we 've offered them an opportunity because everybody else has said they 're too old and after all this they 're getting really excited want to come and then they look so glum in the photographs |
| 25 | but , then again with Eileen you never know with Eileen she says well it 's , it depends on our Sandra she said I 'm not building up on it cos you know what she is , but she says if you know she might want Alan to come and then she goes on and , and then , then she says I do n't know what we shall do really if we do come , she says cos if Eileen wo n't , she 's work , really ca n't come if Alan comes |
| 26 | somebody else to come and apparently he escaped out of a prison somewhere , she 's |
| 27 | Usually they have few opportunities to check that their instructions are being pursued and almost none to supervise their execution at first hand . |
| 28 | 3 the political content in Sri Lanka which determines whether or not such an aid scheme is pursued and how it is implemented , |
| 29 | I could have gone on of course erm , longer but er I wanted to do erm , I 've always wanted to write and so I 've er been able to do that since . |
| 30 | Quite who it was built for , how long it was occupied and why it was abandoned are matters for archaeological speculation . |