Example sentences of "a [noun] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 2 | They like to do it a bit but they really ca n't sustain it because ultimately there 's a , there 's a call for action , a demand for action . |
| 3 | ‘ I might scream a bit but he just shrugs and says , ‘ It does n't matter ’ no matter what it is . ’ |
| 4 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 5 | I cough a bit but it still tastes good . |
| 6 | The bus turns the corner and it gets stuck in some traffic for a bit and he just carries on shouting again and again . |
| 7 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew J B Priestley a bit and he once suggested to me that I should do what he did in the Thirties , which was to take a trip around Britain talking to people . |
| 9 | I wanted to be a winner and I still do ’ |
| 10 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 11 | She had thought that if her mother had learned to consent , to let go , to be filled , then Phoebe 's passivity and disinterest would drop off like a cloak and she too could be naked with joy and love . |
| 12 | They write out a cheque but it never gets cashed for it 's taken back at once . |
| 13 | Jeans and a T-shirt but you never noticed what Zosie wore . |
| 14 | A verb always makes a link and it always represents some kind of movement . |
| 15 | Karadzic , apparently encouraged by the new international policy announced in Washington , not only invited Bosnian Muslim and Croat leaders to meet him to discuss a settlement but he also challenged the Muslims to a soccer match . |
| 16 | I was seriously considering going to India to become a monk but I never got round to it ! ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |
| 18 | Show her a horse and she happily mounted it . |
| 19 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 20 | His back was also as straight as a ramrod and his highly polished black gaiters had flashed in the sun . |
| 21 | This can be a killer but it really is good for you . |
| 22 | My second term after Christmas was much smoother as a result but it still held problems . |
| 23 | A couple of blobs landed on the canvas as a result and I then had to make use of this fact deliberately in order to get some sort of overall pattern . |
| 24 | As a general rule if the sick person requires a remedy and you only have it available in one potency then that is the correct potency no matter what it is ! |
| 25 | I absolutely hated having to wear a skirt but I soon got used to it . |
| 26 | Barry , 52 , said : ‘ I learned which way up the flag 's supposed to be when I was a Scout and I always check whenever I see it displayed . ’ |
| 27 | And he used to lend me dad a pound and he always used to give him it back on a Wednesday , on his pension day . |
| 28 | CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did . |
| 29 | It 's er like someone was having a child and they never had er never had er nappies or whatever . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ said Lydia , ‘ but she is n't a child and I hardly know her , so I could n't start throwing my weight around , could I ? ’ |