Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | It will be mainly concerned with pensions , education and health care , because there are well-developed private and occupational services in all three areas and because state services in them make up about three-quarters of state welfare spending . |
2 | I repeat again in 1992 our major aim as a business is to improve the service we sell so well ; that we provide to our customers . |
3 | I mean obviously for thirty |
4 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
5 | I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group . |
6 | Yes , it uses eight watts against a hundred , well I say probably against seventy five , eight watts instead of seventy five and given us the same amount of light out . |
7 | I hold on with one hand , landing in a fast-moving heap that upsets the sledge 's balance . |
8 | No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself |
9 | From there I walk down to one of the main boulevards . |
10 | I teed off with 15 clubs , one too many . |
11 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
12 | I look up to one particular drug dealer . |
13 | She said : ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know I did n't give 100 per cent . |
14 | ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed . |
15 | I look back on 1975 as a year of the most painful self-scrutiny . |
16 | In the Habsburg territories Joseph I set up in 1709 a new permanent committee of nine officials to control foreign affairs . |
17 | Armed with buckets , nets and battery airpumps , I set off with two willing helpers aged nine and eleven to the seaside . |
18 | I set off at 5 am but those Sussex lanes are pitch dark , and hilly ! |
19 | I get up at eight every morning . |
20 | But erm , now I get up at eight o'clock every morning , and this morning I slept in till ten , but that 's cos I was up till four , working on Thursday night . |
21 | ‘ I get up at six every morning to do Midnight . |
22 | yeah , but I get up at five |
23 | I get up at seven . |
24 | If I , if I get up at seven |
25 | Until I get back at one ! |
26 | If I go ten times as fast , I get there in one tenth of the time . |
27 | How comes I get down to four then ? |
28 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
29 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
30 | My mum wakes up and I wake up at two , because she 's pottering around in the kitchen , , banging about a bit more than usual . |