Example sentences of "the [noun] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well , thank you Chairman , I I I 'm erm er , I must admit , I 'm I I am think long and and and er think deep really , about er , you know , changes such as this , but I I also er , er have to run my own businesses , and er , I just er , I think we have experienced a water-shed , it 's coincided to some extent with the change of administration and then during the nineteen eighties , we had to a boom in this county , we had the the opportunity and I never er ever er , been against that principle , of er , of er , using our actual receipts we have hidden reserves , we we talked about the reserves of twenty nine million pounds here , for the er , erm , we have er er , assets of twenty nine million , in an earlier paper . |
| 2 | ‘ They do all the performing and I just sit around watching them ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I did like The Chameleons and I still do . |
| 4 | Over the past year just about every interview I have done has included a question about the galleries but I never thought there would be a problem . |
| 5 | I just put the title ‘ Division ’ on the board and they immediately wail that they ca n't do it . |
| 6 | Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again . |
| 7 | The only losers would be the shareholders but they always knew this was a high-risk project . |
| 8 | It was too late not to finish the sentence and she already knew what the sentence meant anyway … ‘ not long for this world — on his way out — dying ’ … words which were impossible to say . |
| 9 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 10 | He said it does n't matter Anne , about the money and I just eased off and |
| 11 | He was about to take her arm and help her into the culvert but she neither needed nor wanted his help . |
| 12 | Here goes Kingsley Black again getting in behind the defenders but he rather over played his first touch then . |
| 13 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |
| 14 | Not only does the picture add nothing to the text but it also does n't convey as much about the incident as the text . |
| 15 | Prices on the rise and we just ca n't wait to move out |
| 16 | ’ The problem is that those files are stored in boxes in the basement and we normally ask for half a day 's notice . |
| 17 | With this annexation of Bavaria , Charles completed his conquest of the Saxons and the Germans and he now turned his attention to other regions bordering upon his extensive kingdom . |
| 18 | He found that the circumstances which had arisen were not foreseeable at the time of the contract but he still decided to take into account supervening events : this made the contract unenforceable and unreasonable . |
| 19 | It had been no hardship to sit and talk horses with her by the hour but he certainly had never expected his friendship to be so handsomely rewarded . |
| 20 | Oh dear , a prediction there , well the team boss , Frank Williams says he 's delighted with the decis , decision , the decision and he now wants to help Mansell achieve his ambition of becoming world champion before he finally does hang up his helmet . |
| 21 | Public service broadcasting probably can not survive in the market-place and it therefore needs financial , political , and cultural support . |
| 22 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 23 | Irene still comes to the apartment but we never see her any more except by accident . |
| 24 | We had a match against the Russians and I again beat Roszcanov , the bronze medallist in Madrid . |
| 25 | Not only does a story or novel provide a safe distance from the experience but it also enables far deeper knowledge of people than is common in real life . |
| 26 | They have a master calendar in the kitchen and they never forget anything . |
| 27 | Our cooker was still in the kitchen and we even recognised the vinyl on the floor ! |
| 28 | I was in the kitchen and I just heard something about a bomb near the Prime Minister 's |
| 29 | Even his charge of boring repetition is difficult to substantiate objectively : boredom is in the mind of the beholder and you doubtless could find many people who have enjoyed A la Recherche du Temps Perdu , a work not altogether renowned for its brevity or conciseness . |
| 30 | Joey opened the Sierra and they both got in the back . |