Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scores of officers , many of them armed went in to this caravan site at dawn . |
| 2 | They all laughed , not one of them willing to step out into the coldest night of the winter . |
| 3 | He leaves me free to get on with it and I like that . |
| 4 | I funny staring back at the car park , the car park , and the |
| 5 | How much longer am I supposed to put up with this ? " |
| 6 | ‘ What am I supposed to live on in the meantime ? ’ |
| 7 | And that is why I long to burst out of the world of money and into — into what ? |
| 8 | When are you due to go back to the hospital ? ’ |
| 9 | Possibly the most trouble-free and profitable course in the first year is to grass-let part of the farm , on your own terms , thereby keeping the farm in work whilst leaving you free to get on with your development plans . |
| 10 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 11 | It made you afraid to step out of your house . |
| 12 | ‘ When you propose , are n't you supposed to go down on your knees ? ’ |
| 13 | Well how is she supposed to find out from you what her job is , tarot cards , reading the leaves in your empty tea cups , extra-sensory perception ? |
| 14 | What information were you able to pass on to Superintendent ? |
| 15 | Are you able to come out at the weekend with us ? ’ |
| 16 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Are you ready to get on with some work , then ? ’ |
| 18 | And it does me good to get out of the house . |
| 19 | It 'll do him good to get out for a while ; it 's being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety . ’ |
| 20 | She left him alone to get on with it and fuck around . |
| 21 | Is it possible to move out of grief or bereavement ? |
| 22 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |
| 23 | Amateurs , perforce , have to settle for less expensive solutions , and the low minimum illumination levels at which domestic camcorders can operate makes it possible to get by with just the available lighting supplemented with additional lighting to lift the foreground . |
| 24 | As a source of information , the return collates much that should have been delivered for registration when the relevant transactions occurred , so that a searcher may find it unnecessary to search back beyond the latest annual return on the file . |
| 25 | ‘ Is it harmful to come out of a temperature as high as 76 degrees after working twelve hours , into a cold atmosphere ? ’ |
| 26 | They are ideal for large breeds , or individuals which have a back ailment of any kind and may find it painful to curl up in a basket . |
| 27 | Doctors have never found it easy to go along with reform and were dragged , kicking and screaming , into the Bevan-style NHS in the first place . |
| 28 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 29 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 30 | They embarked but dense fog made it impossible to put in to Ardbeg so they were all carried to the Small Isles , Jura , then to Port Askaig and West Loch Tarbet , returning to Ardbeg next evening after 24 hours on board . |