Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ . |
| 2 | After that everyone went to bed , but nobody slept . |
| 3 | I expect that everyone came to church here , this evening because they knew that it was a communion Sunday , and the sacrament of Holy Communion would be celebrated here this evening . |
| 4 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 5 | One day in February 1943 I returned to my billet to find the usual envelope addressed in my mother 's round handwriting . |
| 6 | Yeah you 're right I look at the headlights . |
| 7 | My Lords , because I consider that the decision of the visitor was right I concur in the order proposed by your Lordships that this appeal should be dismissed . |
| 8 | It would be possible I suppose with the commitment of people for the local party to make on the committee . |
| 9 | She could discourse at great length on the history of Europe , illustrating how little I knew on this vast subject ( having ducked out of history lessons at the age of thirteen ) . |
| 10 | I have already said how little I knew about cancer , and I now began to brush up on it . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I 'd agree with that , from what little I knew of her , ’ said Helen . |
| 12 | ‘ What little I know of Lavondyss has left me in no doubt of one thing : it is a place of snow , of ice , of winter , of an age past when the land was frozen . |
| 13 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 14 | And she needs to be told what little I know about what 's going on here . |
| 15 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
| 16 | One of the strangest things is how little I think of Sophie and Ben . |
| 17 | ‘ Eleven I have at the back there . ’ |
| 18 | The children under eleven I spoke to almost invariably had a sense of inferiority similar to that of a colonised people . |
| 19 | When I was eleven I moved to secondary school , Henry Compton in Fulham . |
| 20 | How sorry I felt for them as I stood with my images of a future of crackling kindling and bringing the pine logs hither and other rustic carry-ons . |
| 21 | comments fair that he did , he did come in twice and se the third time he said I 'm sorry I had to . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry I yelled at you , Ruth . ’ |
| 23 | " I 'm sorry I yelled at you like a fish wife . |
| 24 | Then : " I 'm sorry I yelled at you , " he said , looking away from her . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry I yelled at you last night , Dad , ’ she said . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry I pounced on you before , ’ the dog told them . |
| 27 | I 'm sorry I lied to you yesterday . ’ |
| 28 | Then , without turning round , he said : ‘ I 'm sorry I lied to the police . |
| 29 | One , sorry I wan na read this , I 'll be b I promise I 'll be there in a minute . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm real sorry I shouted at you . |