Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 if you are married or divorced , the other parent will usually be legally responsible for them when you die and your right to appoint a guardian is more restricted
2 Time ceased for a while for them as they kissed and held each other .
3 And the words quivered uncertain between them until she straightened and waved him off .
4 ‘ You 'll do him for me because I ask and because he 's a lousy , rotten drug-pusher .
5 Then the male fertilizes the eggs once they are inside his pouch and then he looks after them until they hatch and the poor male staggers around with an enormous great pouch full of wriggling er baby sea horses until they 're finally born .
6 She would bolt the back door and lock the front door after her as she left and she would n't be gone for long .
7 Her face lifts towards me and she sniffs and I touch her cheek .
8 But er , I never heard of them if they did and er , I mean I , I used to involve meself not in politics or anything like that is the last thing I ever thought of involving meself in but er , I did er , sort er , well being on the milk round you used to see the people in , because they come to door to bring a jug you see and you , you talk to people and you know they were , er were sensible and they were , were should I say soft or had no er conversation at all like , you know .
9 The agricultural reform , on which a constitutional amendment was tabled on Nov. 7 , put an end to the land distribution programme begun after the 1910-20 revolution , allowed private companies to buy agricultural land and form associations with co-operative farmers ( ejidatarios ) , and permitted the farmers , who currently had only the use of their plots , to own and dispose of them as they wished and , with the approval of their co-operative , to form joint ventures with private investors .
10 I got one of them and I had and it 's got that in it .
11 Dealings with clients ' money — a solicitor must keep a careful and separate account of any money of yours that he handles and must account to you for deposit interest if he or she holds a significant amount of your money for a significant length of time .
12 They all turned towards her when she entered and way was made for her to go up to the counter .
13 The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate .
14 I too , as one who is not a Christian , might well say of him that he knew and loved God .
15 ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand .
16 And most of it If you try and do it with sort of the squiggles on the paper .
17 Er a a and then say , well we can take that on board for you if you like but it might be more efficient for you to do the possessions because the civil engineer Leeds , actually is part of your organization a a and it might be more appropriate for you to get those possessions in , for you to decide whether or not you want one big bang o o o of a week 's possession or , or you want to do it i in four hour no-trains periods for the next three years .
18 The recordings are available for you if you wish or will be available for you if you wish to er improve your memory on what has been said during the discussion periods .
19 I 'll blow it up for you if you want or Joelle will .
20 He goes on to remark that a few minutes later the same antlers could be in use with the animals full weight behind them as they slash and batter those of an opposing stag .
21 ‘ Eddie Tonks ( New Zealand Rugby Football Union chairman ) was sitting behind me and I turned and looked at him and we eyed each other .
22 Like you do in the supermarket sometimes , when you can sense something behind you and you turn and there 's this camera , mounted at the edge of a shelf , swivelling its one black eye this way and that , like some malevolent goblin at the door to a secret cave .
23 It was only when he felt her going limp against him that he stopped and lifted his head .
24 The dwarf strained against him as they rolled and struggled in the mud .
25 This one just flung the door open and she 'd either been standing behind it when I knocked or , more likely , she 'd seen me coming .
26 Dad and Mum were out , and I let him come up with me while I changed and then , well , there I was in my bra , and we kissed .
27 Thus it is sufficient to know the general location of the participants in order to interpret : ( 25 ) This city is really beautiful and to know the set of potential addressees in the situation in order to interpret : ( 26 ) You can all come with me if you like and to know when the interaction is taking place in order to know which calendar year is being referred to in ( 27 ) We ca n't afford a holiday this year We could formulate the distinction thus : gestural usages require a moment by moment physical monitoring of the speech event for their interpretation , while symbolic usages make reference only to contextual coordinates available to participants antecedent to the utterance .
28 And you know and you , you , you got to have , got ta get , you know , you have to get cross with them if they misbehave or whatever because otherwise there is n't any order in the place .
29 Er but I unbeknownst to myself and near the end it was a sales manager that had a team of men under me and you know and things like that .
30 Dis poetry stays wid me when I run or walk
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