Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 2 | The skin beneath them gradually swells until eventually the eggs are seated in little sockets and he carries them until they hatch . |
| 3 | Yes because er they 'd found these stray dogs and she says I 'll look after her and then she sang a song t to my dog . |
| 4 | Ask why John does n't use traditional Fenders and he tells you he does n't want to be limited in how he plays : ‘ Like , an A has to be played there , a G there and so on . |
| 5 | Such an increase gives him a feeling of career security ; his employer is pleased with his performance , he is unlikely to be made redundant , he decides there is no further need to monitor advertisements for opportunities for career advancement with rival firms and he feels he can now afford to enter the housing market and buy a flat . |
| 6 | His main expense is photocopying thousands of legal documents and he spends his days preparing the next part of his case . |
| 7 | It assumes that you 've deri derived the samples from normal populations and it assumes there 's a home between the two . |
| 8 | Jesus Christ was big himself , he came into the world to do big things and he calls us to do big things . |
| 9 | His recipe for roast lamb triumphed in the regional heats and he hopes it will be picked again next month . |