Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs S , tell me that again so it 's on record . |
| 2 | He continued to wear glasses even when he found them unnecessary simply because they had become part of his image . |
| 3 | ‘ We have heard nothing definite yet but we are hoping for a spot on Crimewatch , ’ said Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad . |
| 4 | My mum always tells me I 'm the most beautiful woman in the world ; she told me this even when I had chickenpox ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 6 | And even you 'll probably get one or two of them wrong occasionally but most of them 'll be right and when you get one or two of them wrong the teacher 'll say Oh not C K like desk for example not C K on the end of desk because it 's got this letter S in it as well . |
| 7 | All done , it 's against you two thousand , are you all done at two thousand pounds standing on my right then and I 'll sell at two thousand pounds . |
| 8 | All I know even when I first even when I first got here and I was working |
| 9 | I was allowed to work on my own rather than in the production line . |
| 10 | If I can use erm an analogy of my own rather than of his , to produce erm a detailed adaptation of an organism to a specific way of life , if only large steps , large mutational changes were possible , would be a little like trying a surgeon trying to remove erm an appendix with a scalpel mounted on some kind of trolley clamp with the rule that he could n't move it less than a foot at a time . |
| 11 | You want to leave me on my own tonight and go to a disco and let some spotty lout put his arms about you ? ’ |
| 12 | I 'm about as much on my own here as a man with a dog that wants to be taken for a walk . |
| 13 | One for my own anyway cos I 've got ta give you back hundred pound for that one |
| 14 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 15 | I add a few words of my own only because of the difference of opinion between your Lordships on this question and because what I said about the availability of certiorari in my speech in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 has been interpreted to include an error of law by the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 which was not what I had intended . |
| 16 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't like to guess how many miles I 've travelled watching them , but anyway , I 'm on my own now so it 's a day out for me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I have three children of my own now and I thought it would be nice to surprise them with the sugar mice on the tree , and also the chocolate cat . ’ |
| 19 | Yet , however successful in other spheres of my life , when facing my mother I found myself hiding my hurt just when I most needed to express it . |
| 20 | I am trying my best even if my biggest dream is to play in the Premier League . |
| 21 | Then I soberly tick off my own failings : defeatism , fear of the black off its spot , terror of the fourth ball in a break ( not a regular terror for obvious reasons ) , plus a tendency to play my best only when several frames down . |
| 22 | suppose we could find them easy enough if they were . |
| 23 | Since these are sometimes confusingly conflated , it is helpful to keep them separate even though they are not mutually exclusive ( see Fig. 24.2 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I have to say , there 's nothing personal here that I can see . ’ |
| 25 | To ‘ sigh ’ two-note groups seem to me appropriate only when the music really expresses a sigh ! |
| 26 | From what I had heard in advance , I expected to see nothing much more than four or five students on the course drinking regulated amounts of alcohol and then being subjected to a variety of tests that would show how their motor skills deteriorated . |
| 27 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 28 | Early microprocessors ten years ago were erm nothing much more than the calculator type of erm performance . |
| 29 | Darlington have chosen largely unknown Queensland pace bowler Scott Muller as their professional partly because of his qualifications as a coach but if former Lancashire player , Jack Simmons ' opinion proves correct they could be challenging for the title yet again . |
| 30 | She was not able to hear well enough to take shorthand , but her pleasant personally and conscientious work made her a valued member of staff . |