Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you rather I thrashed him within an inch of his life ? |
| 2 | Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism . |
| 3 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 4 | So I put you through a series of tests . ’ |
| 5 | Nothing happened so I put it in a box without a lid and went shopping . |
| 6 | So I put it in a rock this time and it was so funny though . |
| 7 | So I left it up a side street and got a taxi back to the studio where I was due to appear . |
| 8 | So I left it for a while , and I thought I will phone her and find out . |
| 9 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 10 | So I sprayed it with a fine spray and it 's kept very well , had n't it ? |
| 11 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |
| 12 | Suddenly she saw him in a new guise . |
| 13 | She had forgotten or erased his face , and so she saw it through a blur , but his body was naked , exactly as she had remembered it , golden-white , muscular and slender , the black mass at the groin and out of it the penis rising dark amber-red . |
| 14 | So she popped him into a plastic box , wrapped it in brown paper and posted it . |
| 15 | So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes . |
| 16 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 17 | Only his song could do the trick , and float the witch into a dreamless sleep , and so she tied him to a perch by a silken ribbon and put bells on his bird 's feet . |
| 18 | So she moves them to a nearby burrow when they are approximately four weeks old and at that time they will have become virtually self-supporting . |
| 19 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 20 | So you raise it to a power , multiply the indices , when it comes out as a fraction , it does n't matter how you |
| 21 | so we keep it in a canvas jacket |
| 22 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 23 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 24 | remains something of a mystery , but perhaps they took it as a reference to our well-known problems with fractured sewer pipes and the directive from Europe . |
| 25 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 26 | So they put me in a detention centre for six months . |
| 27 | so they put him on a life support did they ? |
| 28 | So they cover it with a mattress , and disguise the mound with piles of old clothes . |
| 29 | Perhaps he saw them as a threat . |
| 30 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |