Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation has made them worth as little as 1/2p . |
| 2 | My mate goes five times a week and she ai n't had nothing for over twelve months . |
| 3 | Natasha sighed audibly and said nothing for so long Charlotte thought she had walked away from the telephone . |
| 4 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 5 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 6 | But Toby was n't God , except to me for just that second , and he 'd been hurt . |
| 7 | I permit the incidents of the past to haunt me for just seven days of each year . |
| 8 | He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years . |
| 9 | Yes I think my socks garnished with holly and ivy will last me for quite some time ! ! |
| 10 | But it gave me satisfaction and comforted me for much that was otherwise missing from my life . |
| 11 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 12 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 13 | She studied me for about half a minute , then rearranged some of the knick-knacks on her stall . |
| 14 | And he stayed with me for about half an hour looking after me . |
| 15 | Do n't ask me for too many Freudian explanations . |
| 16 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , I guess you can afford me for that long . |
| 18 | He was called Chip and he stayed with me for around eight years . |
| 19 | Perhaps significantly , the Commission said nothing about more natural and lowland woodlands such as the New Forest or Epping Forest , where some pollution effects ( on lichens ) were already known . |
| 20 | MacGregor said nothing about how much the stockpile is costing and said other details are secret . |
| 21 | But John , he does n't care or nothing about how many there are — he 'll just fly at them fucking mad like and have a go . |
| 22 | It implied nothing about how such rocks were formed . |
| 23 | Likewise , tables of the age distribution in certain selected parishes in early-modern England tell us nothing about how structured dependence has altered qualitatively over time . |
| 24 | So although the gamma ray background tells us that there can be no more than 300 primordial black holes per cubic light-year on average , it tells us nothing about how common they might be in our own galaxy . |
| 25 | ( I did n't find that so funny , though no way was I going to tell them about how this least amiable aspect of Danuese traditional warfare had been continued by FAKINTIL . ) |
| 26 | A child of ‘ mixed race ’ is therefore seen by them as not black and not white , but closer to white than black . |
| 27 | The overall search for new antimalarial agents involved the screening of some 16,000 compounds , most of them for both suppressive and prophylactic activity against several avian malarias , plus a thorough study of the toxicology and pharmacology of many of the preparations in lower animals . |
| 28 | I said yeah then I get into trouble with them for not passing estimates to Terry and then there 's an argument . |
| 29 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 30 | I have n't spoken to them for nearly two weeks . ’ |