Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [coord] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea . |
| 2 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 3 | Have you had any , anybody else phone them up or written to them ? |
| 4 | ( When a visiting paramedic distributed free condoms , the children blew them up and played with them like balloons . |
| 5 | ‘ You attacked me and tried to force yourself upon me , you wanted to blackmail me , you followed me around and spied on me in Helmsley — and you say I 've nothing to fear ! ’ |
| 6 | So the woman took him in and cared for him . |
| 7 | You want to pick her up and run with her and put her safe in the loft with the apples . |
| 8 | This was the creature which had picked him up and flown with him . |
| 9 | She finally called him across and ordered for one . |
| 10 | The nice thing about Matilda was that if you had met her casually and talked to her you would have thought she was a perfectly normal five-and-a-half-year-old child . |
| 11 | He had shown her round and helped with her shopping . |
| 12 | I scoffed it down and found to my astonishment that it was delicious . |
| 13 | She tugged it off and played with it in her hands as she watched the Dale with him , leaning on the stone of the wall . |
| 14 | I picked it up and checked on what news it gave of the train . |
| 15 | His pay packet was there unopened and he did n't open it now but paid for his round from a wad of notes held together with an elastic band . |