Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In that case I 'll have one too , ’ Nick took a pack of Silk Cut from his pocket . |
| 2 | He pauses and gives a lazy Dirty Harry-style smile : ‘ But if it 's falling off a building I 'll let someone else do it . ’ |
| 3 | During the lunch break I might have one more go at seeing what all the bloody fuss is about over that sobbing pop LP by Tori Amos . |
| 4 | I told the news desk they should send someone else , one of the junior reporters . |
| 5 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 6 | Beyond this point he would observe something very strange : the area of the spherical surface would decrease , until when he had travelled twice as far to he would find that it had shrunk to nothing . |
| 7 | And Thompson he was a grand lad he could do everything near . |
| 8 | Mr Staton always takes a group one so if you say just a minute I 'd like one too . |
| 9 | She knew she should reply with some light-hearted quip which would set everything down on a matter-of-fact level and make her meaning plain , but quips were beyond her . |
| 10 | For about £12 a head you can get something quite special and not have the worry of driving home . |
| 11 | You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about . |
| 12 | We carefully skirt the small island of Kayholm where I know there are a couple of otter holts , and if is a lucky day we might find one out fishing . |
| 13 | And for making the E I P erm an interesting and er fortnight and I think er commending on the way that you er and your colleagues have handled it er all the way through and er we hope that er at the end of the day we 'll get something back from you fairly quickly which er we 'll act upon . |
| 14 | If he wants a wife he 'll find one soon enough . |
| 15 | And he goes , I did n't do anything And he goes , he goes , she goes , right , you be the captain I 'll do everything else , do n't touch nothing . |
| 16 | Durance himself may manage something once in a while , but there is no one who can help him achieve those masterpieces in the way that Jourdain did . |
| 17 | Anyway living in a flat you might have somebody downstairs that 'll beat you up . |
| 18 | Rob 's assured us that he 'll let you know where in your area you can pick one up so you can wave bye bye to ‘ Syntax error ’ , and say hello to ‘ Now loading please wait ’ ! |
| 19 | He also points out that a commitment to equality implies also a commitment to a state which will push everybody around until they are equal — Procrustes was a figure in Greek mythology who forced all those he came across to become the same height , either by chopping bits off or by using a rack to stretch their legs . |
| 20 | And anyway , Nigel , perhaps you 'll tell us how the Hell we can do anything effectively for Poland . |
| 21 | Young argues that ‘ When ambition is crossed with stupidity it may do nothing besides foster frustration ’ . |
| 22 | The patient himself may pick one up with clean hands , but no one else . |
| 23 | Gabriel irritated him by the way she could get something nearly right but not quite . |
| 24 | The only way we can do anything now is with help from somebody else . |
| 25 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 26 | However , given the history of the relationship between the Inns and the judges which we have recited in this judgment we can see nothing conceptually difficult about the judges , as visitors , telling the Inns that they now perceived that their particular disciplinary procedures were unfair and needed rectification , even though they had concurred , in principle , in the creation of those procedures . |
| 27 | The weather we can do nothing about , except to recognize what it can be letting us in for , and to take precautions accordingly by spraying contacts or systemics . |