Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 2 | He looks up at his direct opposite Martin and then adds , ‘ Secretly I agree with him and he agrees with me , and we both agree to differ … |
| 3 | He looks up at his direct opposite Martin and then adds , ‘ Secretly I agree with him and he agrees with me , and we both agree to differ … |
| 4 | Mother says money is n't important , but secretly I disagree with her . |
| 5 | However little I care for the way you live , I shall concede that as long as you get your facts right , sense flavours and textures with accuracy and discrimination , think out the implications of your choices , are not deceived about your desires and ambitions , you may do as you please . |
| 6 | ‘ After all , to do the job properly I need to thoroughly understand what 's involved . ’ |
| 7 | Gladly I return to God . |
| 8 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 9 | In the case of means , I can take many of the facts on trust from experts , even leave the choice itself to experts ; but in the case of ends , however humbly I listen to advice , the decision remains my own . |
| 10 | ‘ Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables . |
| 11 | Mostly I play with the clean channel on full crunch and the lead channel on 16 . |
| 12 | Anyway , yeah , and so , right I go to Bunnie and I , can you take me home yes , cos I 'm supposed to be going to a pizza to have pizza round my friend 's house , he goes , mm , they 're going , oh we 're starving , you have to go round to somebody 's house , I said he goes well I 'll take you stra , I 'll take you as soon as we 've had something to eat . |
| 13 | It is a right I reserve for all adults and one of the nicest things about being my age is that I can do whatever I like . |
| 14 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 15 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 16 | They were cheap to buy , somewhere I believe at about ten for a penny . |
| 17 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 18 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 19 | Emptily I say to myself , ‘ It 's me , whoever I am . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Haply I think on thee , and then my state , like to the lark at break of day arising from sun and earth , sings hymns at Heaven 's gate : for thy sweet love remember 'd such wealth brings , that then I scorn to change my state with kings . ’ |
| 21 | In the games I enjoy , the better I become at them , the more do they come to resemble dream ; and the more does sleep-dream seem familiar , comfortable , homely . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't tell you how much better I feel after talking to someone like you . ’ |
| 23 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 24 | He 's almost halfway across and suddenly I go from being terrified and annoyed to being exhilarated , intoxicated ; overjoyed . |
| 25 | I 'm usually perfectly rational , yet suddenly I seem to be doing things I 've never done before . ’ |
| 26 | Suddenly I see in the calm of the garden a change , as though time has slowed . |
| 27 | ‘ Much I care for Adam ! |
| 28 | Anyway it 's fiction erm basically I mean for me there 's two issues , one do you pamper to the worst possible taste erm and two erm is the Sun the face of newspapers to come er |
| 29 | basically I hope to be more effective in talking to as I can |
| 30 | Others have a bit of a tough time especially I think with ladies |