Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I want to write my own novel , I wanted to take the characters from Rebecca , who of course would come to me bearing their pasts , but I wanted to move them right away from Rebecca and then write on , and that 's what I did . |
| 2 | Well I , we do mainly , but what we do is , we , we cut them , when they die off , we cut them right down under ground |
| 3 | Anybody could have kissed me and I 'd have kissed them right back with interest . |
| 4 | Montgomery too had paused to reorganize his lines of communication , but planned a final assault to dislodge the Afrika Korps and drive them right back into Tunisia in December . |
| 5 | Blackburn 's first win in eight matches , 2–1 over Millwall after being a goal down , kept them in the play-off hunt but a Swindon win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland tomorrow could see them right back in contention . |
| 6 | It was decided that there was no point in returning to Hoddom , so messengers were sent to acquaint the main Scots army of the position and to bring them on here to Annan in the morning . |
| 7 | In fact what strikes me most forcibly about Lyell 's pillars is not their evidence of placid uniformitarianism but rather of episodic " catastrophism " . |
| 8 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 9 | The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue . |
| 10 | I guessed it was part of your plot to steer me right away from Rob — in case I corrupt him . ’ |
| 11 | Now you 're trying to say that you led me on out of concern for him — ’ |
| 12 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |
| 13 | I ought to start , really really and truly I ought to start buying them in now in sort of double , double packs , you know , get two cos they 're expensive to buy . |
| 14 | They ju er you know people hear er the sales consultants doing courses right now erm you know find that that we 'll print them and we 'll probably print them in in by May although they 'll have needed some cards . |
| 15 | This was accepted as advisable — even though , if the Regent and his army were still at Edinburgh , it would demand every effort to get them down here in time . |
| 16 | I was possessed of a lively curiosity to investigate this kampong of the Other Side — that lively curiosity which has carried me so successfully through life . |
| 17 | Their level of operation , however , is quite different as their irregular profits serve to keep them only slightly above subsistence level . |
| 18 | But all of this , ironically , brought them only further into line with the real Han — the Families — who had always preferred the simple to the lavish , the harmonious to the gaudy . |
| 19 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 20 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 21 | If we look at them carefully we see a faint band in it but we ca n't count the bands this way , we can see them much better with X- rays . |
| 22 | I , I only really like Humanities and English . |
| 23 | But I still ex I still out of courtesy expect people to phone but may be I 'm old fashioned . |
| 24 | It must have been , I was–only there by chance . ’ |
| 25 | I straight in to yellow or yellow to orange . |
| 26 | ‘ I also quite like Johnson Fry 's Election Protection BES and Capital Ventures Election Hedge , but my reservation with these is that contracts remain unsigned . ’ |
| 27 | My primeval instincts should have been satisfied , yet I as far from content . |
| 28 | The best I could do would be to say ‘ I like peaches better ’ , but quite apart from the logical objection to deriving ‘ Choose the peach ’ from this psychological statement , reliance on a generalization about my preference could get me into a habit which would dim my awareness of the tastes , until I fail to notice that I no longer like peaches as much as I did , or that at this moment I hanker after a pear , so that the abortive try at rationalization would make my choice less intelligent . |
| 29 | ‘ I actually rather like Monet — especially his earlier stuff . ’ |
| 30 | I therefore am of opinion that a trading corporation may sue for a libel calculated to injure them in respect of their business , and may do so without any proof of damage general or special . |