Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er I 'd meet up in town and our house like twenty past nine , half past , get , get , get the bit of shopping done before the fucking crowds I might off wasted me time , we got in there about ten o'clock , right old day . |
| 2 | to me but I d I still , I do n't get the same feeling from you as perhaps I might with medical notes , if you see what I mean ? |
| 3 | But er the piano 's the only one I would of like to have learnt to play . |
| 4 | That is more than I can say about the Liberal Democrats , who seem to be headed for their own Westminster bunker en masse , or for Robin Cook , Clare Short , John Prescott or Chris Smith — all of whose views I would in normal times respect and follow with interest . |
| 5 | In other words , I will in due course adopt the child . |
| 6 | Not being a drinker , I do an obligatory flip round the post-show party , consoling or congratulating and giving what little advice I can to grieving or glowing parents . |
| 7 | However , how can this phenomenon be illuminated by means of the metaphor of levels of programming language , on which view the ‘ lower activities ’ are inscrutable at the ‘ higher level ’ , given that , after a road accident , say , I can by conscious effort retrain myself to walk properly ? |
| 8 | I have my doubts about this one but you may in due course get a proposal from him . |
| 9 | You ought to t-try it . ’ |
| 10 | But you must up awful square with that . |
| 11 | You might in good time like to write a pop-psychology book under that title ? |
| 12 | Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet . |
| 13 | She , meanwhile , devoted herself to selling as many of her husband 's works as she could to various publishers , including J. A. André of Offenbach am Main , and Breitkopf & Härtel of Leipzig . |
| 14 | Mrs Henry found out all she could about alternative cancer treatments and dabbled in some of them . |
| 15 | And you used to funky little reggae , oh my god singing . |
| 16 | But wisely Mrs Christie saw that she would have much more difficulty seeing the world through juvenile spectacles than she would through Belgian ones . |
| 17 | The term ‘ annunciation ‘ ( announcement ) is that given to the message presented by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would in due time be delivered of the Son of God , and the festival commemorating this — Lady Day — has the date 25 March . |
| 18 | give the same protection and employment rights that you would to other employees who have problems related to other forms of ill-health |
| 19 | Mix different kinds of foliage plants to create a design , as you would with flowering plants . |
| 20 | Refer to the To Wound Chart to determine the roll needed to wound , and roll a dice per hit as you would for multiple bow or crossbow hits . |
| 21 | Well , that 's certainly true , but Bridgemere is absorbing the extra cost itself so you 'll be paying the same for the nursery 's coir-grown plants as you would for peat-raised plants . |
| 22 | As this is a compact bush tomato there is no need to pinch out the side-shoots as you would on standard tomato varieties . |
| 23 | Obviously , you will need much heavier tackle when fishing in snaggy water than you will in open water . |
| 24 | So stick if you can to satin-finish Cezanne |
| 25 | Used like this in an open-end swimfeeder you can feed the swim with the same accuracy and effectiveness as you can with swimfeeder-fed maggots . |
| 26 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 27 | Well you can with double glazing , some |
| 28 | Find out everything you can about nuclear energy . |
| 29 | If you ca n't afford , or ca n't find , a good antique table to suit your style , get a secondhand , junk table , cover it with cloths , and invest as much as you can in comfortable chairs . |
| 30 | You are there to do a damage limitation exercise , to do the best that you can in difficult circumstances . |