Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] and [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you you might fall over and smash his precious organ or something |
| 2 | its going to come round at you in a minute , so I 'll talk about it until it gets to you , erm , it delighted my children this particular painting , erm and I decided to put my sort of analytical approach to one side erm and do something with that later , so this poem is from my , my children 's point of view and one of the things that are very interested , they were really worried , that , erm , I think it marks the height of the table and the fact that the puppies might fall off and do themselves some harm , that , I 'll read it while its going round and then I can see then , that , so this is , ok , from my children 's point of view this poem , its called Threes , Table laid and waiting , milk place in bowl not to high , they lap and swirl , played and roll , paws distance from knocking and breaking goblet , made from clay . |
| 3 | She can count out and administer her own drugs and explain her own needs during visits to the doctor . |
| 4 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish they 'd hurry up and find me another girl , ’ he muttered irritably . |
| 6 | Or I can hurry up and become my older ( better ? wiser ? ) self . |
| 7 | But a small company may not set up and run its own scheme . |
| 8 | And then as soon as I can find somewhere else , I 'll move out and leave you alone . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'll move out and live his own life . ’ |
| 10 | But there is this centre which is right op on Parliament Street opposite Boots and you can go in there and all these leaflets that I 've got come from there , you can get those any time , they also have all the timetables , they also have all , have all the other information and two ladies sitting there , voluntary , er who will phone up and get you any information on any subject that you want . |
| 11 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 12 | They would go in and fight their own battle and US forces would gradually be withdrawn . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll go in and find us another shuttle . ’ |
| 14 | Why do n't you just piss off and leave me alone . |
| 15 | She might wan na go off and do her own thing so erm I said you just think on , I said , this woman has got her own house and everything , she 's got |
| 16 | The businessman might as well go off and start his own photographic processor , print shop , or plumbing company but for the initial advice on how to run the organisation . |
| 17 | James Spicer explained that we both had pressing jobs to do and the Inspector agreed to take my statement immediately and that Tony could go off and make his final checks of the golf course and make his statement later . |
| 18 | SunSoft 's representative on Posix 's PThreads ( or P1003.4a ) committee ensures that the firm does n't go off and implement anything non-standard that is likely to put SunSoft out on a limb . |
| 19 | If you did n't care about him , you 'd just walk off and lead your own life . |
| 20 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 21 | ‘ Not much I can say to that , is there ? ’ she managed bravely , wishing desperately that he would straighten up and go his merry way . |
| 22 | Should 've sorted out I mean I ca n't go up , I ca n't go up and give him any more help cos I 'm working tonight and tomorrow night . |
| 23 | I could go back and leave myself some notes , a bit of helpful advice ; but as I do n't know yet what I 'm dealing with , I ca n't leave myself anything useful . |
| 24 | So maybe you could sort of go back and think which one of these would possibly give me calcium carbonate , well that Good chance it might you know have a guess , that this one |
| 25 | She could n't go back and face them all — not now , not when Marianne would have told them all about her criminal father , doubtless revelling in every sad little detail , probably creating a few more just to spice the story up still more . |
| 26 | ‘ Come on , let's go back and make ourselves beautiful for him , for the evening . |
| 27 | Can I go back and ask you two questions . |
| 28 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 29 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 30 | ‘ Now anybody who feels good on the day can go out and do their best . ’ |