Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Will you pose for me properly some time ? " |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 4 | It takes them all some time to understand it . |
| 5 | It 's taken me long enough god knows but |
| 6 | Could the others have been examples of the ‘ leasemongers ’ on whom so much opprobrium was heaped ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you for giving me so much help . ’ |
| 10 | I could n't remember the last time he 'd shown me so much affection . |
| 11 | She has given me so much happiness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That bicycle gave me so much joy for many years . |
| 14 | It gave me so much joy … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ A part of myself … which gives me so much pain ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | You cause me so much pain |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ My policy saved me so much time and money , ’ he says . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe I would n't have allowed Marissa to cause me so much unhappiness . |
| 21 | They are giving me so much discomfort now , I can hardly listen to these gentlemen . ’ |
| 22 | He has remarked , ‘ No other phase of my academic life has given me so much pleasure and instruction . ’ |
| 23 | me so much pleasure . |
| 24 | I am just lucky that my fish have survived and have flourished to give me so much pleasure . |
| 25 | Mandy and Debby looked the part all right , they looked tough enough for this , particularly Debby , who gave me so much eye-contact and hand-on-knee and dressing-gown disclosure that I almost asked for her telephone number . |
| 26 | Either he did not wish me to get into trouble or , more probable , he did not relish the thought of giving me so much gelt — sixpence . |
| 27 | That was my revenge on you , for causing me so much trouble ! ’ she cried angrily . |
| 28 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 29 | Parents feel betrayed because their children have caused them so much worry and , later on , children often feel guilty for upsetting their parents so much . |
| 30 | It was as if , because she bore them so much love , the actions of her children had the power to anaesthetize some of her most cherished convictions . |