Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does a tower provide a landmark , alerting everyone for miles around to the presence of the brewery , it also provides the brewery with a trademark , though on the printed version the mill has acquired the adornment of four sales — historically inaccurate but more symmetrical ! |
| 2 | Everyone for miles around lived in terror of them . |
| 3 | Ai n't got nothing for tea now ! |
| 4 | They look at them through microscopes just to find out what they 're made of . |
| 5 | The effect of having a baby had also put some of them off sex altogether for a while , which is something that also happens to older mothers . |
| 6 | Whether we 'll have to take them off Thursday now , put them forward to Wednesday . |
| 7 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 8 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
| 9 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 10 | Can you please complete and initial clause two , sign the documents and return them to me for signature here . |
| 11 | So my father got a secondhand clockwork train , repaired it with a soldering iron , and gave it to me for Christmas when I was nearly three . |
| 12 | I used one of your tapes you brought me for Christmas yesterday , very nice ! |
| 13 | ‘ Why do n't you come and join me for dinner tomorrow evening , and I 'll tell you then . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose you would n't care to join me for dinner tonight ? ’ |
| 15 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 16 | It struck her as a terrible waste , for she felt nothing as Kattina erotically licked her sensitive flesh in dainty , small circles commencing at her throat , and finishing inside her dinky navel . |
| 17 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 18 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
| 19 | They do n't think of them as places where research goes on . |
| 20 | She would even extend her fancy into the shops she visited , seeing them as markets where she could choose a fish by the brightness of its eye , a chicken by its stiff yellow claws and plump breast , or pick out tangerines with the leaves still on them . |
| 21 | Er Use them as pizzas maybe ? |
| 22 | Why should the girls have to you know , lose their savings and money that money that people have given them as gifts just because , you know they do n't want to give out any money ! |
| 23 | I mean , erm , I know my youth officer in my area takes them as individuals where the , they are youngsters who perhaps would benefit from that . |
| 24 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
| 25 | Erm I do n't know I have n't been to them for ages now |
| 26 | The facts are as I reported them for FARMERS WEEKLY on Apr 27 , 1990 . |
| 27 | If you take made-up bottles , check them for leakage beforehand . |
| 28 | But the Americans do not seem likely to force the Japanese to overcharge them for chips again . |
| 29 | Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere . |
| 30 | Similarly , those who hoped that the more flexible regulations would qualify them for grant well in excess of the traditional 75% were doomed to disappointment . |