Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I bring them home to wash and I unravel them before they dry . |
| 2 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 3 | I mean I personally think that we 've , that with that third session , looking at things , certain topics have come out |
| 4 | I mean I always thought if you were parked too close to it , they take your number and next thing you know , you get a , a , a summons come through the post . |
| 5 | I do n't know if I can answer that to be absolutely honest I I mean I really feel that erm that would be reading too much into the decision that that our members took at that time . |
| 6 | But deep down you also knew that it could n't be so simple . |
| 7 | ‘ Fru Møller just told that lady that it never rains here in August , but the dolls say it often does and they packed their mackintoshes ! ’ |
| 8 | Where the Act applies a reasonableness test it generally provides that a party can not exclude or restrict liability " except in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss2 , 3 , 4 ) or that liability can be excluded or restricted " but only in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss6 , 7 ) . |
| 9 | Police say he only survived because he did n't hit anything as he rolled down an embankment . |
| 10 | let them sweetly dream that in Britain the great day has come at last . |
| 11 | Let me just go and get me erm |
| 12 | Let me just check before we start that everybody 's got this . |
| 13 | First of all , let me just say that everything I am going to tell you is the complete and absolute truth . |
| 14 | ‘ First of all , let me just say that everything I am going to tell you is the complete and absolute truth . ’ |
| 15 | Er let me just say that aloud |
| 16 | right cos then you 're taking them away from the fact that you want other quotes right , they 'll say to you oh we were n't thinking of doing it actually until the winter , right and then you can say to them well let me just say that by placing your order in now we can put your installation in hand , right , basically at today 's prices , right , on an extended delivery , right , and you can still qualify for a special offer , right |
| 17 | Erm let me just see if I 've got a I made a whole page of notes here du n no whether any of its important . |
| 18 | Let me , let me just illustrate that in the case of sacking MacArthur and in the case of sending federal troops to Little Rock to des desegregate schools , the orders were readily carried out . |
| 19 | Now I , let me just try and get this one . |
| 20 | Okay , so let me just write that on the back , Monday to Friday and that 's nine to four thirty . |
| 21 | It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance . |
| 22 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 23 | A closer look at this challenge will be afforded in Chapter 5 but suffice it here to say that the military 's vested interest in the established planning system , long a fixed point on the compass , may be changing . |
| 24 | Suffice it here to say that this problem was finally dispensed with in 1833 , by banishing unc ( ! ) : |
| 25 | Suffice it here to say that there have emerged other groups of educationists who present alternative views . |
| 26 | Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions . |
| 27 | I imagine it perhaps starting as one , and then escalating , as Serafin waits , smiling eagerly at her pupil , and Summerchild hunts back through his life for the required circumstances , covering his retreat with bursts of fire as he goes . |
| 28 | To emphasize the " poetic " style of the passage , let us also observe that the schematic patterning is extensive on the phonological as well as on the syntactic level , for example in the alliterations and assonances of " feet … follow " , " hands … hold " , " alphabet … arch … aisle " , " lift … fall " . |
| 29 | Let us also suppose that you have found a hypnotherapist who is both reputable and someone with whom you feel compatible ( see p.23 ) . |
| 30 | Let us also celebrate and exploit the opportunities that have been created by new media , and ensure that bookshops are seen as the distribution channel of choice , and that we do all we can to make the book the natural bedfellow of these emerging products . |