Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( David Rockefellers older brother Nelson , who had recently died , had been almost a friend of the Shah ) Would either of them fly to Morocco and tell the Shah that the US government preferred that he did not come to America right now ? |
| 2 | Then I kneel beside Dixie and feel through his pockets . |
| 3 | ‘ I cook at school and make dishes for my family once a week . ’ |
| 4 | I put on bank and released the wheel . |
| 5 | It 's the thought of you that keeps me going when I begin to flag or feel a bit faint-hearted … |
| 6 | Similarly I look at English and ask whether staff and students locate their discipline within the Leavisite paradigm or whether they are aware of the developments of the past thirty years , such as structuralism and post-structuralism . |
| 7 | And if I 'm used to the dynamics of a Shure SM58 , some competitor showing me a graph of his mic 's superior frequency range cuts no ice when I jump on stage and have to revise my singing to suit it . |
| 8 | Another part of me is racist , probably because I 've hardly met any colored people and all I know of them is what I read in papers and see on television , where black people are usually talked of in terms of numbers and presumed guilty until proved innocent . |
| 9 | Back in my hotel — a different , better one — I lie in bed and read Camus 's Journal : |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I lie in bed and eat cakes ! ’ |
| 11 | In the quiet of night I lie in bed and hear the rattle of stones tumbling down this cliff , as , far below , the North American tectonic plate strains against the Gorda plate to its north and the Pacific plate to its west . |
| 12 | I 'll telephone someone I know in COBRA and ask him to meet us at Melbury Court . ’ |
| 13 | But as soon as I get into bed and shut my eyes , this racket starts up . |
| 14 | ( i ) I foresee with trepidation and execute with unease . |
| 15 | What 's for sure is it will be a Mega Drama , the day I discover my man has been playing around , because I believe in fidelity and learned its importance the hard way . |
| 16 | I think a point that comes over very much is the one about the structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they 're still in the very traditional |
| 17 | But where they 've gone on to have parish councils , you 've had the typical triangular structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they , they do n't express it to me as such , but the felling you get over is that 's the sort of structure they 're used to , because the structure of the church is built in anyway , and the whole structure of the church |
| 18 | I talk about Bernard and tell them he is in publishing . |
| 19 | Now I ask in fear and trembling |
| 20 | Try and get over the bumps. as well that , I go into work and do n't see Teresa that often you 'd think she 'd have the money ready on Friday morning would n't you ? |
| 21 | I do my big shopping on Tuesday — but I go for odds and ends every day . |
| 22 | I go to work and earn . |
| 23 | I 'll 'ave one o ’ them when I go to work and do n't forget to ask 'er if I can come again . |
| 24 | At six I go to Cannabichs and give Mlle Rosa her lesson . |
| 25 | Yorkshire prairie on a Yorkshire farm and you know what I mean , and now I go to Manchester and say thank god I did n't come here |
| 26 | I 'm 21 but I 'm still a kid : I go to pubs and do this and that and I think , ‘ Well , if I 'm a kid , other kids must do that ’ . |
| 27 | As I go to bed and shut my eyes — but not till then , though it may be hours since the conclusion of the special visual stimulation — a path through the bush or a winding highway begins to flow past me and continues to do so till sleep intervenes . |
| 28 | I go to funerals and chuck earth . |
| 29 | ‘ If I go on holiday and do n't do some work , I feel it is quite reprehensible . |
| 30 | If my mum wants to go out , or goes to work , I stay at home and look after the girls , and vice versa . |