Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Matron came in that afternoon everyone stood up and shouted ‘ Hooray ’ . |
| 2 | Of course everyone curtsied too . |
| 3 | Of course everyone threw up their hands and said it was impossible . |
| 4 | But if but if Emmy gets the funding nothing to worry about . |
| 5 | If I want a T-shirt I do n't go to any pile I go to the hangers . |
| 6 | if you get the virginal I do n't think |
| 7 | ‘ There is one particular marathon runner I have always liked and that 's Grete Waitz . |
| 8 | He 's the best striker I 've ever worked with , I just wished he could do that sort of thing when he played for England . |
| 9 | ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |
| 10 | It was his goal that knocked United out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Atkinson added : ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |
| 11 | Limpar , on his way back from international duty with Sweden in Oslo , told me : ‘ Shearer is top class , a striker I rate very highly . |
| 12 | He scored his first goal of the season on Wednesday — and Ndlovu , who is rated by Coventry manager Bobby Gould as ‘ the most exciting young striker I have ever worked with ’ , believes that 's the first of many . |
| 13 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |
| 14 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 15 | As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees . |
| 16 | So when you looked at in the in the exam , did you think , Oh , they 're not giving me enough information here , or There 's some trick I do n't know , or what did you think about it ? |
| 17 | ‘ In approaching the wife 's defence I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the judge has overlooked two critical points of distinction between her case and that of the husband . |
| 18 | The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 19 | One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face . |
| 20 | ‘ You have the most glorious hair I 've ever seen ! ’ |
| 21 | And the next thing I went in and this girl was doing my hair I do n't know what she was doing but I ca n't remember the , the dream was he says to me Dawn do you want these curling tongs left on I said what curling tongs |
| 22 | ‘ You have the most beautiful hair I have ever seen . ’ |
| 23 | You know everyone was walking like my hair I did n't know where I was everything that people said would like just echo in my head . |
| 24 | McGinley rates the 11% growth in like-for-like sales ‘ a pretty good performance in the deepest recession I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I intend writing the story I came here to find . ’ |
| 26 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 27 | I must not remember the story I set out to tell . |
| 28 | That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates . |
| 29 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 30 | There was a tree in it whose story I did not tire of hearing . |