Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
2 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
3 | They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking . |
4 | For me there has always been — and I count it the greatest of all blessings — a window never finally blacked out , a light never finally extinguished . |
5 | At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best . |
6 | I was interested to hear the Hon. Gentleman raise the subject of the scanner proposal , and I wish it the best of success . |
7 | His name was Edward Greenwood , and as they all sat down , he said , ‘ I 've heard all about you from Helen and I wish you the best of luck . |
8 | No she bought a second lo a second twenty lot of twenty and I give her the first lot back probably . |
9 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
10 | And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour . |
11 | ‘ The Medjay captain asked me that too , and I give you the same answer : how would an escaped convict find his way into the compound ? |
12 | The penis stirs close to me , and I give it a wet nose . |
13 | Then I , for a few minutes , we 've got only fifteen minutes so , about twelve to fifteen minutes , and I explain them the historical aspects . |
14 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
15 | It seems to have a mind of its own , and I call it The Great One . |
16 | And I send her a red rose with the same message . |
17 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
18 | He was captured , and you know what the French do . |
19 | If your child takes a peculiar liking to washing up , and you give it a sweet every time , it will start to get suspicious and realise that washing up actually is n't as much fun as it thought . |
20 | So you add them together and you give it the same sign . |
21 | The sun flames orange and pink behind the trees above the house , the breeze is cool rather than cold , scented with flowers and the sea , and you think what a pleasant if rather bland place this would be to settle down . |
22 | ‘ Does it still happen to you , John , that you look back at yourself as you were six months ago and you think what an ignorant , innocent goose you were ! |
23 | ‘ I 'll have them every other week and you have them every other weekend . ’ |
24 | and you see them a three weeks later and they say hello Tony and you think hello , who the hell are you ? . |
25 | And you call me a bad driver . ’ |
26 | We are inundated with relatives we encourage it and we make it a special time . |
27 | Joan Daniels has now been appointed Honorary Treasurer of the Medau Society and we wish her the best of luck in balancing the books — figuratively speaking ! |
28 | And we wish you a safe journey home . |
29 | And we know what the Iraqi government would like , which is the release of their money frozen here since the Gulf war . |
30 | It is fine for many of us , given the privileged lives that we lead ; it is hell for many of our citizens and we owe them a great deal more urgency than is provided by this useful but inadequate measure . |