Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A girl on a health education course I once taught told me of someone she knew whose husband had died after six months of marriage . |
| 2 | The LM form of homœopathic medication is unusual in that once you are improving on the remedy you actually continue to take it even when you are feeling well . |
| 3 | No problem it 's just g it 's a bit funny if there 's more than one of them if you get two or three you do n't say two ox if you had two or three boxes fine but with ox it 's one of these silly words you just have to remember it 's oxen . |
| 4 | Just because they got a cut they never have to put it out . |
| 5 | All the evidence suggests that she had her confessor wrapped around her little finger : while claiming the complete obedience appropriate to her spiritual supervisor she in fact got round every attempt he ever made to make her moderate her life style ; she persuaded him to confer his blessing and approval on her choices . |
| 6 | I 'm I 'm about to apologize to Mr Grigson , because I see from his submission he actually did distribute it by district within the er Greater York area , er yea , planning by Selby is not I think the right approach , but . |
| 7 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 8 | Although he put the poem to one side it still continued to worry him , and in October he explained to Mary Hutchinson that the contemporary situation was such that only good work was appropriate ; bad writing , after all , would seem even more trivial or superfluous . |
| 9 | ‘ Normally , when I hit anybody with that punch they do n't get up , but as Ruddock was getting to his feet I just kept watching him and I could tell by his eyes that he was hurting bad . |
| 10 | I mean that 's that 's not in question I just want to know you know try and get a bit of background , I had heard there was a possible problem erm and er how bad it was . |
| 11 | We had a brilliant time and it 's a pity you only get to do it once : Maybe we 'll split up and reform under a different name — so we can have a crack at it next year . |
| 12 | So the graphite it actually helps to make it self-lubricating . |
| 13 | Don t you really want to drink it ? " |
| 14 | It 's a good job I always remember to pick it up in n it ? |
| 15 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
| 16 | If you go to buy a secondhand car these days they invariably try to sell you a guarantee or a warranty on it . |
| 17 | It took the merest instant , but as a process it never ceased to fascinate her . |
| 18 | In that case we firmly say make it simple and do n't aim for the moon at first try . |
| 19 | He was the only person I ever saw using it , and I suspect it was especially dusted for his benefit ; the rest of the tram was tremendously dusty all summer . |
| 20 | I said thank god I never had to show her . |
| 21 | erm and the rest you just have to fill it all out . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , Jay , ’ she says , all bright and brisk , like there was a fascinating bird on the windowsill she just had to show me , ‘ we 've got to cool it . ’ |
| 23 | poor Derek , I mean I do n't know whether Derek 's away , did n't bother to come up on , if if he did n't bother to come Friday well he 's still laying on the bench , but if it 's Jack you see , the other day she well give did you ask him , I said no I do n't mention it till Friday to him and then when I get the next one I 'll say well is it this week 's or last week 's ? |
| 24 | There was loads of washing up in here still to do last night you just had to leave it . |
| 25 | This idea of visiting us was proposed by them , and we were very pleased , as it 's the only chance we really get to meet them socially . |
| 26 | The two claimed in court they only intended to scare him into giving information about their property . |
| 27 | Erm , on this paper I just wanted to ask you , erm , Simon says it 's from the erm , American agency , how many jobs , I , I would really like to know how much we spend , or how much is spent on trying to achieve jobs from American , from companies in America , and erm , how many jobs have been created ? |
| 28 | She ai n't young or nothing — I spect she 's got kids and that , but her skin is so lovely and soft-looking and warm like runny chocolate I just want to touch it . |
| 29 | ‘ I was attracted to running because it is a sport where you depend only on yourself to achieve something and from the start I just wanted to enjoy it , not to beat others . |
| 30 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |