Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 3 | It must be difficult if you had someone who wanted to go out all the time or if they 're sort of really living it up or something I mean |
| 4 | Since the end of last month it became illegal to burn off the stubble after harvest — that leaves farmers with the options of either ploughing it in or looking for alternative uses for it . |
| 5 | Spatz looked up at Ellis and took the files from him , sorting through them with a great show of self-importance , before finally setting them aside and looking across at Kim . |
| 6 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |
| 7 | ‘ You look tired , dear , ’ said Doris Smythe when she had hobbled up to her door and let Linda in before carefully locking it again once Linda was standing in her dark hallway . |
| 8 | ‘ Lesley was seriously assaulted facing those dangers in December 1991 but this did not deter her from bravely facing them again and we are very proud of her for that . |
| 9 | Alright , if an innovation comes onto the market that enables a farmer to increase his output , alright , if that er , innovations that lies , lies outside of erm , sort of orthodox or traditional methods there may be a psychological resistance to actually adopting it simply because we 're a newfangled thing ooh , I , I do n't know how it 's going to , how it 's going to work . |
| 10 | Another nice touch is that you can swop from one PCMCIA card to another by simply sliding them in and out of the slot . |