Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 2 | and the material is , you feel the stretch , the others are like this and they just sit there , but then in the end they ride up you see |
| 3 | Because I think if we did this and we actually thought through what competencies e members of staff needed to have , |
| 4 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 5 | And if I had n't met the people I 've met , I think I 'd 've been a very frustrated person cos erm , even though you can think of something , un unless , if you have other people you can go , if you say to somebody you could say , oh God , you know let's do this and this and this , or I think , really think this or this and someone else goes yes I do |
| 6 | ‘ And Connie , ’ pursued Camille , ‘ lives in a house the same as this and she never had to work for it . ’ |
| 7 | Bernard Butler knows this and he hardly seems surprised . |
| 8 | When France declared war on England , on 17 June 1778 , Jones remained unemployed and he also managed to fall out with his own crew who , in a petition , called ‘ his temper and treatment [ of them ] insufferable ’ . |
| 9 | He went on to say : ‘ Student numbers in Scotland have increased by a remarkable 25 per cent since 1983 to nearly 110,000 and we fully expect by the end of the century that more than 40 per cent of young Scots will enter higher education . |
| 10 | They found the cutting and scrambled down the slopes of the cutting enjoying the freedom , the old hut looked interesting and they soon explored the area , that had reverted back to nature . |
| 11 | I like the bones best because they 're interesting and I never thought people were buried up here . |
| 12 | ‘ But she 's wrong and I just know I 'm right , ’ he vowed . |
| 13 | I wish I was wrong and I still had my pension . |
| 14 | Because he was wrong and he just made me feel really crap . |
| 15 | But passions were running high and I also think the conference did want to give our present Prime Minister a feeling of support . ’ |
| 16 | They 're quite expensive at the outset because what we 've got to do is pay the lecturers to put a lot of work in on those lectures — it 's not a simple thing writing this lecture for a thirteen year old and we also pay the school teachers for coming along and helping the lecturers . |
| 17 | ‘ When you came to us , love , you were eight years old and you never smiled , you never laughed , you hardly said anything . |
| 18 | You 're fifteen years old and you still wan na watch the Jungle Book . |
| 19 | My daughter 's now 10 months old and I still have n't started my periods again . |
| 20 | It is only 12 months old and I now wish to purchase a modulator to convert it to a colour monitor for use with a domestic TV set . |
| 21 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 22 | Bob Martin , from the Darlington Milk Buyers , said customers had been very generous and they still had more to collect . |
| 23 | Then I come cantering through Sherwood To set Maid Marion free And I really believe I 'm Robin Hood And the Sheriff 's my enemy . |
| 24 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 25 | You can take some and who normally put things where . |
| 26 | O'Connell says the company was proud to say that it had won Posix-compliance and it now hopes to gain X/Open 's XPG branding . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's the classic green and reds with a simple check that prove the most popular and we often recolour tartans in various forms . |
| 28 | ‘ Jeff was my best friend and my brother ; he was my spiritual and musical mentor since 1972 and I never lost anybody this close to me before . |
| 29 | It was strained through sieves into stone water jars , and if the truth were told , it was probably not very alcoholic and it certainly had a short life . |
| 30 | like , she 's coloured right , but she 's a bit portly and she just smells to be quite honest ! |