Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dear me pass me the spanner . |
| 2 | Just on the shall we say off-chance I asked what the situation was regarding additional lines between Norwich and Crawley as between Stansted Norwich and Crawley to see if there was anything under way and what the approximate cost would be because erm well I know there 's more D D I facilities now . |
| 3 | This is very embarrassing but last night I got into a bit of a state about not hearing from you for so long and I 'm afraid I sent you a completely mad letter which I … |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid I owe you an apology , Mr. Preston . |
| 5 | At this she cut herself a narrow wedge from the pie , and when her mother turned round from the oven and looked at her plate , she remarked , ‘ You wo n't get fat on that . |
| 6 | Battle is joined again , and surely after this we know what the result will be . |
| 7 | I E this one gives us a a value of three . |
| 8 | If we 're wrong we lend you a skipper during the day at no charge . |
| 9 | The whole Legion surrounded itself with mystery in multiple layers , and the further one penetrated it the more complex the mystery became . |
| 10 | It 's clear they come one every so often , as the one from Germany , but when they do come , they 're very worthwhile , it justifies our effort . |
| 11 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 12 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 13 | Dad was a jolly chap sober , or could be , but when he 'd had a few he thought himself a bit of a lady-killer . |
| 14 | As it stands the districts seem to be wanting their cake and eat it in that they would like er a policy restricting development in the open countryside but they do n't want it to come with baggage that is specific which says what the exceptions should be . |
| 15 | " Your father thought one of the others would have blown the gaff to me — presumably they thought he had — the net result , as always when you leave it to George , being that nobody told me a thing . |
| 16 | that nobody understands what the other person 's role is |
| 17 | Years coaching black kids in South Africa , his marital ups and downs , his worship for the suspicious Wardle , his boyhood experiences as a film extra which gave him a life-long love of being ‘ on stage ’ , all this satisfactorily answers the question ‘ Why a book from this chap ? ’ |
| 18 | I said then all you have to do is tell her how much she hurt you the last time |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm delighted they left you the house , ’ Julia told Margaret . |
| 20 | And being as usual in the mood to get things right she told her a Chinese dragon story . |
| 21 | No , keep it down as low as you can because , the lower you keep it the less chance of there is of getting this biopsy done . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm so glad I told you the truth this morning . |
| 23 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 24 | So it 's very likely she told you a few fibs . |
| 25 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |
| 26 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 27 | Each one shows us the right way to go and we must learn to use it aright . |
| 28 | But one thing , on behalf of the museum services , I would like to thank Doreen Griffiths for the help she gave us in our exhibition , ’ Memories of Change ’ , which you can see in the exhibition room over there , and she contributed a lot of photographs , and her memories , and allowed herself to be taped and have her memories in our archive , and for that we give her a great thank , because it 's not always easy for the , sometimes for the first time to begin talking into a tape-recorder , so we thank her very much , and thank you very much for coming in and performing for us today ! |
| 29 | Okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then I asked you to make a first presentation . |
| 30 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |