Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make it commercially attractive to somebody else British Gas have to got keep lifting their prices to a level , that eventually somebody comes in and says oh yes |
| 2 | You concentrate so much on bringing up your children correctly , that suddenly you do n't have a life of your own . ’ |
| 3 | and at eight o'clock I went home and anyway he went to pay me my weeks money and h he gave me an extra ten pound |
| 4 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 5 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 6 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 7 | Up until eleven o'clock everything went pretty well , When just as you start thinking to yourself that 's the last one for a while , lo and behold another wagon turns up . |
| 8 | you know and she , you know you do n't have to pay much this sort of heating 's in or something like that so she 's probably got loads of spare money like you , which is good because she 's on her own and it gives her more , you know |
| 9 | that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick . |
| 10 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 11 | I think about phoning her mobile but she hates me doing that so I do n't . |
| 12 | but erm I do n't think Joan , at the time , last night , Joan said that she was a bit too tired to Bob was having to just fit in with that so I do n't know what they 're gon na do . |
| 13 | We 're not gon na get into anything about chairmanship of meetings on this course , there is a meeting 's course that does that so I do n't want to promise you something that I 'm not gon na I 'm not gon na be able to deliver I know what you mean certainly in terms of timing of your presentation keeping t time with your presentation we 'll be looking at that and help you achieve that . |
| 14 | No I did n't see anybody looking like that so I do n't know . |
| 15 | It 's not bad no , no but I 'm just saying it 's not in me , and so wh when everyone else is like mucking around , making fun of me , you know , I do n't do things like that so I do n't think other people can but they do . |
| 16 | I went into the gardens one Sunday morning with the dog found a body in a sleeping bag and I really did n't know whether I thought it was alive or not alive so I went rather closer and I got a very defensive angry stare from a young man and I said to him I 'm not going to ask you to move , because you 've probably got nowhere to go , my real concern is are you okay . |
| 17 | no no the starlings seem to be pecking away at the top slabs are getting dry so I do n't know , er you see that man 's still up there , I wonder what he 's doing up there at the side |
| 18 | So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it . |
| 19 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 20 | I keep doing it wrong so I gave up and I 'm just covering it with purple . |
| 21 | and it always ends up going right , so they do n't dry , right funny so it do n't d or it rains . |
| 22 | I was saying to Jean this morning , cos it 's funny enough we went out to Dartington yesterday and we were sort of looking at the restaurant there at Cranks , and I said to her you know about this bowl of soup and then the erm |
| 23 | Well it was still light so it had n't di I did n't really realize how late it was getting . |
| 24 | or possibly nearer to Scottish well he went home at weekends |
| 25 | Or put some well I do n't wan na start drilling holes in it . |
| 26 | she said cos I 've noticed this sometimes she said there , they will give you some here |
| 27 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
| 28 | If we add the £100 for the tank onto this then it does not take a genius to realise that there is not much left of the £250 budget , especially if we allow for adds-and-ends such as airline , non-return valves to protect the pump , a stick-on thermometer etc . |
| 29 | You 've never been up this late I do n't think . |
| 30 | In in fact it was n't long before it was n't long before Christmas was it we we actually got together and I wrote a memo that if there is anything erm before it leaves the plant , if the tractor driver or whatever e does n't like it and it 's not acceptable then it goes back to the plant . |