Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] and [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nay , I said — at Briar Cottage I live and there I mean to stay ! ’ |
| 2 | The survey also asked companies a series of questions on what sources of market research they used and also what barriers companies felt had inhibited their export performance . |
| 3 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
| 4 | He says he worked like a pansy he said and now he says I go |
| 5 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 6 | So I carried it carefully like this , arm round the waist you see and off I went up the road for about forty fifty yards and put one in . |
| 7 | Trouble is now , cos I know a hairdresser the shop , if I go somewhere else , it looks a bit you know and yet I 'm not very satisfied with the way he cuts it , he 's done it cheap . |
| 8 | He came forward warily and took the coin she offered and then he went off to one of the stables to fetch the horse and cart . |
| 9 | The condition of your hair BEFORE you perm , the type of product you CHOOSE and how you treat your hair AFTER your perm will all determine the end result . |
| 10 | If we decide what behaviour we want and how we will assess it , and then reward that behaviour when it occurs ( a practice found in any family ) , then we have a chance of pleasing both individual and organization . |
| 11 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 12 | I knew Penny Lane and it was , alas , enough Crilly , and when my father came one day and asked what I was looking at , I said Penny Lane and he stood for awhile and looked for awhile , while the roof held its breath it seemed and then he said , after all that standing and all that looking , he said , ‘ You 're right ’ , and hoisted me up upon his shoulders . |
| 13 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 14 | Knock at her door you see and in they go . |
| 15 | He 's got a white collar you see and also he 's very big |
| 16 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |
| 17 | And in the first lesson nobody noticed and yet I was really noisy , and in the second lesson nobody noticed . |
| 18 | During installation , Windows will ask you a series of questions about the hardware you have and how you want Windows itself to run . |
| 19 | You used to have a little book and er the grocer would write it down what you 'd had in the book you see and then you had to pay for it on th at the weekend . |
| 20 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 21 | But it , it did and , and I think there again a little bit of Guild influence because when er we were at meetings we would say , well what are you going to do about the er drapery you know and eventually we did get this better erm you know , drapery . |
| 22 | Many girls spoke to me of how a fear of being raped or ‘ hassled ’ affected the way they dressed and how they felt about their looks and bodies . |
| 23 | What I mean is , she does n't seem surprised by the way they behave and how they react to things ; it seems normal to her and she accepts it . |
| 24 | They use instinct and spontaneity and when they practise something , they do so for the enjoyment it produces and thus it becomes more of a game than a practice . |
| 25 | But eventually he , he , he again when time we started and then he moved on to it , back on to declaration of intent , and they pulled him up and took . |