Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 2 | " Will you pose for me properly some time ? " |
| 3 | Young argues that ‘ When ambition is crossed with stupidity it may do nothing besides foster frustration ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 5 | THERE have been lucky winners of the Grand National but , of them all 100–1 chance Foinavon must rank supreme — and may also have been indirectly responsible for saving the race . |
| 6 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 7 | It takes them all some time to understand it . |
| 8 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 9 | ‘ But on the other hand , ’ Emily went on after a wait , ‘ the girl also said to me suddenly one day , when I thought she was trying to read back dictation , ‘ I ca n't get through the spring without a man . ’ |
| 10 | It 's taken me long enough god knows but |
| 11 | One of them apparently recognised Ranulf and called out honey-phrased invitations as to what she would offer for a silver coin . |
| 12 | Could the others have been examples of the ‘ leasemongers ’ on whom so much opprobrium was heaped ? |
| 13 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 14 | Or it might have been that he saw , in the younger screenplay writer , someone before whom all false reticence could be cast aside . |
| 15 | So far ‘ King James III and VIII ’ , for whom all this sacrifice was being made , had not yet set foot in either of his kingdoms . |
| 16 | He was the funnel through whom all subsequent experience of the Spirit of God would be mediated . |
| 17 | ‘ Thank you for giving me so much help . ’ |
| 18 | I could n't remember the last time he 'd shown me so much affection . |
| 19 | She has given me so much happiness . |
| 20 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 21 | That bicycle gave me so much joy for many years . |
| 22 | It gave me so much joy … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ A part of myself … which gives me so much pain ’ |
| 24 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 25 | You cause me so much pain |
| 26 | My wife , Jane , and close friends were all at Manchester Airport to meet me on my return from France and waiting at home were my mother , more friends , half of Sheffield United FC and Willie Thorne , whose friendship has given me so much confidence . |
| 27 | ‘ My policy saved me so much time and money , ’ he says . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe I would n't have allowed Marissa to cause me so much unhappiness . |
| 29 | They are giving me so much discomfort now , I can hardly listen to these gentlemen . ’ |
| 30 | He has remarked , ‘ No other phase of my academic life has given me so much pleasure and instruction . ’ |