Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't , Oh thank you very much I 'm much obliged or anything like that . |
| 2 | Acting on a hunch , I stationed myself at 5.59 p.m. the following Monday , and sure enough I was nearly killed by middle managers trying to get out of the office before the 6 p.m. deadline . |
| 3 | I am writing this letter in a personal capacity , but as Chairman of the Education Committee and a member of the Membership & Recruitment Committee , perhaps I am well placed to comment on the debate on entry requirements . |
| 4 | Perhaps I am so preconditioned by tables that I could not reflect quickly enough that there are other ways of getting the answer . |
| 5 | ‘ Obviously I was badly misinformed in Yoxford . |
| 6 | Personally I am strongly committed to a primitive Christianity , but I know that I can not return to the total world-view of the primitive church . |
| 7 | But I , I 've only just come in , so I 'm well arsed . |
| 8 | So they 're just after a kind of random sample of Aston lecturers and as as the official random sample keep forgetting to put the er put the tape in the machine , or turn it on or whatever , it 's handed on to me so I 'm now wired up to an extraordinary degree . |
| 9 | So I was all set . |
| 10 | Er , my my natural mother er , actually had me adopted when I was a baby and erm so I was actually adopted by a minister and his wife and I think , erm , I would have been brought up completely differently if she , she 'd just bought me up on her own , you know , so I think erm oh that 's it really . |
| 11 | So I was continually forced into learning new stuff very quickly , and that helped develop my ear . ’ |
| 12 | They said well it does n't matter , you know , you 'll pick that up as you go along , so I was really thrown into the secretaryship you know . |
| 13 | He came in one day and asked what M C C stood for , and I 've always known a lot of useless information , so I could tell him , so I was then dispatched everyday to the erm radio shop in the High Street , to get the cricket scores in Australia . |
| 14 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 15 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 16 | So I was definitely determined not to begin where she left off . ’ |
| 17 | And so I was almost predestined to consider how the two great nations of Western Europe , the Germans and the English , related to one another . |
| 18 | ‘ I had to climb out again to get some air and when I went back in I was just beaten back . |
| 19 | But suddenly she was doubly shaken , and could only stare in astonishment at the tall , lean , aristocratic-looking man who had rounded that same corner in time to see all that had happened . |
| 20 | Naturally she was deeply involved emotionally . |
| 21 | Apparently she 's always adored him , although she was his secretary for years . |
| 22 | If he 's her lawyer , perhaps she 's already given him the photograph . |
| 23 | Perhaps she was roughly treated before you owned her . |
| 24 | Perhaps she was still traumatised by shock . |
| 25 | If St Albans is beyond your reach , perhaps you are better positioned for the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley in Surrey , or those of the Northern Horticultural Society at Harlow Car , Harrogate , in Yorkshire . |
| 26 | So she 's just rang up , her car 's gone completely to bits and erm |
| 27 | So she 's just done all that training , she said , you know she 's done her |
| 28 | so she 's still needed , I think she bought a three bedroomed house which meant she had two girls two girls and a boy , she had three children . |
| 29 | So she 's really fed up this morning now ! |
| 30 | So she 's now lost her husband and one son and he 's the other son . |