Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 2 | I do n't deserve that forgiveness , but the God who loves me who has actually died on the cross for me has actually taken all of that away and more than that has made me new , has actually raised me as a new life with him . |
| 3 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 4 | No-one has ever said that about us before . |
| 5 | I do not wish in any way to criticise you , and I appreciate that I applied today to ask such a question — |
| 6 | You see I 've just taped that . |
| 7 | there you see I 've just cured that one look , that one with |
| 8 | I 've left my computer programme going , God knows what it 's gon na do I 've only got half an hour to finish it ! |
| 9 | Okay , I mean just ignore that one , forget I wrote it . |
| 10 | I mean just thinking that ? |
| 11 | Well they complain doing two for ones I mean never mind this |
| 12 | Erm I do n't know I do n't yo I , I think possibly having that foot up on the stool was perhaps a mistake . |
| 13 | Sadly , I failed daily to get any of the pilots to use the Link , so I used the periods myself and , in time , overcame my shortcomings in bad-weather flying , I am convinced to this day that those stolen trips in the Link could well have prolonged my flying life in later years . |
| 14 | As I sit here typing this letter , the sky is black and it 's pouring with rain — real April showers . |
| 15 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 16 | I tried never to throw any food away . |
| 17 | I was never so self-assured again , though I rallied enough to get some good results in the School Certificate exams , and joined in enough activities — rowing , choir , dramatic society — to be dubbed as an all-rounder by the headmaster ( a description which brought jeers from my schoolmates ) . |
| 18 | I want now to consider some further aspects of " the creation of legitimacy " which most anthropologists consider to be the crucial function of any institution described as " marriage " . |
| 19 | The language I used obviously means this : the plaintiff in order to make out a cause of action must assert certain facts which , if traversed , he would be put to prove . |
| 20 | I 'd just met this medium — how could she have known this ? ’ |
| 21 | It would be good to see old England again and even if I did n't find her I could tell myself I 'd just tried that little bit . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I 'd just got that out when you rang the bell . ’ |
| 23 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 24 | I , I 'd just taken this thing |
| 25 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 26 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |
| 27 | I 'd just had enough of them so I was gon na do them when we got the shafts , like then I see what you do . |
| 28 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 29 | And I 'd also had some suspicions . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd nearly forgotten that . |