Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 2 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 3 | Would that explain why he asked me so few questions , took my unlikely presence and knowledge so much for granted ? |
| 4 | double decker when that stopped then they would |
| 5 | In its Windows incarnation it 's also possible to monitor exactly what 's going on your hard disk using a utility called the Stackometer . |
| 6 | There are certainly pretty aperçus to be found , such as the observation that men objected to women smoking in public because one smokes for oneself : it was the display of female narcissism ( that got up their noses . |
| 7 | If that goes up I would say it is highly probable — in fact think I should use the word inevitable — that both the thermal plume and the temporarily quiescent earthquake zone along the tectonic fault would be reactivated . |
| 8 | What is certainly on record , however , is de Lattre 's ineffable assurance to Acheson that ‘ If it were made possible to carry out his present military plans and if there were no Chinese military intervention the Vietminh could be eliminated as a fighting force in a period of between one and two years . ’ |
| 9 | In overall terms , there would be impressive savings ( particularly in energy costs ) if each produced only what each produced best . |
| 10 | The laws are kept because of our faith ; it is possible to see why they have even been called ‘ the secret of our survival ’ . |
| 11 | Yes been hopeless has n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ It may take longer than that to find out who sent you that letter , ’ he said rather shortly . |
| 13 | If , after almost 10 years of revisionism , of U-turns on nuclear weapons , devolution , the European Community , state ownership , trade unions , the sale of council houses and more , Labour is still unelectable , is it now time or even overdue for Labour to pull up its roots and die , making room for an acceptable alternative to another decade of Conservative rule ? |
| 14 | It is possible to meet almost anyone , from a member of the Red Army to a Red Indian , on the 6,304km ( 3,917-mile ) trip . |
| 15 | everywhere 's got its own problems on that has n't it |
| 16 | So it 's had a new lease of life with that has n't it ? |
| 17 | Well her daughter 's got long boots on that has n't she ? |
| 18 | But besides that there 's a lot of other influences that come into it , and you must n't ever forget that it 's a song you 're playing — to me , that has absolutely everything to do with what notes you 're playing . |
| 19 | If so Frank has little to worry about I think . |
| 20 | Sometimes it was not possible to know precisely which kind were actually included in a particular scheme . |
| 21 | Just days before the sale , Allied bumped up their prices by a quarter and then offered everything at ‘ 25 per cent off ’ . |
| 22 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 23 | Sladen waited nervously for somebody to say something , then asked tentatively : ‘ Well … if we are n't to discover who , is it possible to find out something about why ? ’ |
| 24 | Using crosses , dots and circles , it was possible to find out which patterns were most effective in frightening away the birds . |
| 25 | But unions at Corporate Jets point out they have no such assurances and are anxious to have a meeting with Raytheon as soon as possible to find out its long-term plans . |
| 26 | When we hear of such cases , we investigate and draw on as many sources as possible to find out what happened … |
| 27 | This record is retained permanently , so if a specimen of rock is put into the detecting instrument , and various careful measurements made , it is possible to find out what the Earth 's magnetic field was like at the time when the basalt cooled from its original molten state . |
| 28 | All religious have their own special requirements so it is essential that you see your minister as soon as possible to find out what these are . |
| 29 | Would it be possible to find out what Priscilla 's results were because she 's had a urine test and she 's extremely sore and they 've asked for another urine test , and I 'm |
| 30 | Firstly , it should be possible to find out what is already known from the local Sites and Monuments Record or Royal Commission for Historical Monuments/Ordnance Survey records . |