Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matter that has given me most cause for admiration is the way in which he has conducted himself while the horrible events have gone on and been reported in the press . |
| 2 | When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains . |
| 3 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 4 | Nor that I thereby hope for immortality : |
| 5 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 6 | I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early . |
| 7 | To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment . |
| 8 | I personally like to idea of meetings like this , both because of the element of local co-operation and also because we can hear the views of other people , railway sympathisers rather than railway enthusiasts perhaps , on how railways fit into the scene . |
| 9 | These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes . |
| 10 | I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman . |
| 11 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 12 | We are unable to love ourselves enough to allow for weakness . |
| 13 | I only speak from observation ; yours may be different , I grant . |
| 14 | Sebastiana : I only suffer from overwork nervos . |
| 15 | ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) . |
| 16 | I only go for tendering of accounts like B T for example |
| 17 | ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four . |
| 18 | I only work in metal ; steel and occasionally alluminium . |
| 19 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 20 | I only appear in court when other people have been unjustly treated . |
| 21 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 22 | I suddenly felt at ease and I 'm just hoping I can stay in the side alongside Alan . ’ |
| 23 | Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day . |
| 24 | What theme might we expect to find in the background of someone highly motivated by money over long periods ? |
| 25 | ‘ I grew up in Australia , and when I was about fourteen I saw a guitar and that was it : I just fell in love , just totally obsessed . |
| 26 | I just felt like crying . |
| 27 | idea to get it going and get it off the ground even if you you put your beer on at , well I just thought of couple Boddingtons put their they 're they 're gon na put their , they 're gon na put there 's at a pound a pint . |
| 28 | Probably better if I just stay at work and come and pick me up . |
| 29 | And I just stay at home and other stuff like I bunked off a couple of days , whole days of school . |
| 30 | Well I just stay at home . |