Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] and [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She 's a clumsy clogs that 's why I wo n't let her walk around with the baby if she wants to cuddle her I tell her to sit down and I tell her not to move well she 's always tripping over her feet .
2 Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water .
3 So then we had something to work on and we got him stroking Beth 's rear end .
4 When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later !
5 One or two pensioners were unable to come along and we wish them well .
6 They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television .
7 Cos our John used to come in and she goes you know said you 'll have to excuse me , once they go away I can relax .
8 when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking
9 ‘ Come in , Hari , sure Cleg will be that glad to see you , he 's been wearing his brother 's boots to work in and them pinching him like the devil . ’
10 If you 're wearing , if you 're wearing headphones right you do n't stop everybody 's bound to work out and everyone lets you wear them , everyone 's bound to work out you 've been given permission to wear them .
11 They used to write back and they said he was always being sent out and I said that 's because he 's bored !
12 She asked me to come round and I told her about you not showing up .
13 And at lunchtime — there are witnesses — Downes 's hearing-aid began to play up and he discovered he was n't carrying his spare aid with him .
14 I started to look around and I put my hand up and it was lying at the back of my collar
15 Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address !
16 I 've got to go back and it takes me sometimes twice , sometimes three times when you get all this rubbish that he has to take round .
17 Tumbleweed hesitated and turned as if to go back and I put my arm round his shoulders .
18 and I told him to fuck off and I told him he was a pain and all the rest of it and so
19 To make sure of the facts I went back to a 1985 Wireless World ( May & June ) series to read up and it seems you are completely correct .
20 to send out and I sent it out to all the users
21 She had been on the run since her conversation with Jack , a steady stream of nasty fractures and frightened children and anxious parents , and then , shortly after two , just when things began to settle down and she thought she might actually get some lunch , a car screeched up into the entrance and a man jumped out , flung open the back of the car and half dragged , half carried a woman towards the doors .
22 It was a neat line to end on and she used it to excuse herself and go upstream to wash , using the chilly water to freeze her blood and perhaps put a coat of ice about her heart .
23 Oh I shall never regret Er I do n't know but I 'm just perhaps one on me own , but er it could n't have been better for because I was a freelance and er I wanted to learn and wanted to get on and they allowed me , they allowed me to do what I wanted .
24 Somehow or other I manage to get through and I think it 's because my parents help me .
25 To get up and I saw it was useless .
26 Subsequently Ortman dived it to 500 mph plus , but flutter caused it to break up and he used his parachute .
27 And er but it was only about half past five I did n't I never stopped till the I just kept going now tha well about half past four , I started to pack up and I realized my sandwiches were still in my snack box so I I 'd I 'd had one one earlier on whilst I was still working but yes the lady there she made us a couple of cups in the morning , er cu cup of coffee , I think about what yeah about half ten time but the time I painted a little bit and I thought oh I 'll stop and have a fag , with my coffee and I had a cup of tea later on in the afternoon but er I did n't stop , I kept going , you know and then course by time I got to my drink , it was cold it was cool , so you drink it straight down
28 ‘ But it really does me good to get out and I enjoy it enormously . ’
29 " I suddenly felt I had to get out and I wanted your company .
30 If they started to cause trouble , we just asked them to move on and they appreciated it .
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