Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two pound odd I just paid for mine . |
| 2 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 3 | ‘ Sorry I never know with you . ’ |
| 4 | One of these entered the popular literature and is still repeated by journalists , despite the fact that Hugh McClean , who , in admitting his part in the Shankill UVF killings , is supposed to have said : ‘ I am terribly sorry I ever heard of that man Paisley or decided to follow him ’ , later denied making such a statement to the police . |
| 5 | None that I ever heard of returned Mrs Fairfax smiling . |
| 6 | Lord Beaverbrook would say : ‘ On important matters like that I never decide without consulting my nephew Jonathan . ’ |
| 7 | I wanted the girls to have an opportunity that I never had as a child . |
| 8 | ‘ It was so funny everyone just fell about laughing . ’ |
| 9 | I know this I just know about about a sort of friend of ours is making money meanwhile in Germany . |
| 10 | This I subsequently discovered to be false . |
| 11 | Above FIGURE 2 I then paint in the bulk of solid colour in carious places , screwing up my eyes , obliterating any detail but getting the tones hopefully right . |
| 12 | Antoinette said , I 'm afraid I always think of Beecham . |
| 13 | The first example of this which probably springs to mind is that of the love/hate relationship between Pip and Estella which develops throughout the book as they grow older and their characters change and develop . |
| 14 | Lord 's insiders insist that he acted under Law 42.5 which specifically deals with unfair play and clearly states : ‘ No one shall rub the ball on the ground or use any artificial substance or take any other action to alter the condition of the ball . ’ |
| 15 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 16 | The waveform of this current is shown in Fig. 2 which also serves as an illustration of the magnetic field produced by the coil , since this must be directly proportional to the current . |
| 17 | Sensibly , from the point of view of the regime , Nicholas had taken the precaution of consigning the one prominent conspirator of 1825 who actually came from Siberia , Grigorii Baten'kov , to the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg . |
| 18 | There are some who never come to our House of Prayer for various reasons — prayer is not important in their lives , work or social life is more important , people who feel that they can go it alone with no need for God , others who feel that life is too full to have time for God , some who think that religion is a waste of time , and there are people , both young and old , who are intimidated by their friends . |
| 19 | There is always one member who gets lost and is late for the bus , one who talks too much , another who never speaks at all . |
| 20 | Unless you were very dim you quickly learned to be early and clean . |
| 21 | The aim is to reduce the ranks of the young unemployed who now account for more than half the nation 's two million jobless and to give them an added skill which will help them find work when the training is over . |
| 22 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 23 | But this one really appealed to me . |
| 24 | And er to avoid a collision and in fact I think they did strike but I 'm not really sure , but to avoid a collision this one then goes over the other side of the road , picks up this Ford Orion coming the over way , rolls it over the bank , and it goes underneath the tractive unit of the artic . |
| 25 | I had heard the story before , along with another one reputedly originating from the same school . |
| 26 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 27 | To be clear one sometimes needs to be long-winded . |
| 28 | This they generously explain by reference to limited research which focused on unique historical periods , was limited to middle class life , and was directed at individual experiences . |
| 29 | This they eventually did at Messina — another positive augury for the future , perhaps — appointing to the post René Mayer who was , in fact , an associate of Monnet . |
| 30 | " Well , " he said , " we think we lose a lot of aircraft , because we have been monitoring quite a — few they just disappear from the radar screen 50 miles off the coast , sometimes more , sometimes halfway across the sea if they are making a dash far Flamborough Head . |