Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had almost forgotten about him and immediately felt depressed as I trudged off to find my car . |
| 2 | It did n't seem to matter that much , because Rose knew exactly what was expected of her and quickly undid the remaining buttons of her blouse , revealing ample breasts well worthy of her name . |
| 3 | After all , the postal map of London S.W.1 had been drawn with a special excrescence to enable Harrods to be included in it and thus avoid the ignominy of falling within the outer darkness of S.W.3 or 7 . |
| 4 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 5 | And he 's looked at it and just said well look at it . |
| 6 | He put the finger into his mouth , sucked at it and then waved it around in the air . |
| 7 | Hellens did not like the portrait painted of him but later came to recognize its prophetic qualities . |
| 8 | ‘ I have heard of him but never met him . ’ |
| 9 | He wanted something done about it and even asked for a move . |
| 10 | He ran to the open door to catch up with her when , suddenly , a man wearing a hood over his head pushed past him and nearly knocked him over . |
| 11 | Pierre 's hands moved towards hers and then pulled back . |
| 12 | The 486DX is a different in that it has a numeric coprocessor built into it and so does n't need one adding as a separate unit . |
| 13 | The shopkeeper had not realised the boy was connected with her and immediately offered congratulations . |
| 14 | If by any chance , you have still not encountered the fax machine , then its basic function is easily described : the fax transceiver plugs into a standard telephone socket , scans the document fed into it and then transmits the result electronically to a similar machine at the other end of the line where a facsimile document is printed out . |
| 15 | A breadth-first traversal goes from one node to all the nodes directly connected to it and then resumes the process at one of those connected nodes . |
| 16 | Bode et al describe three different types of polyphosphate granules , but the large vacuole like granules seen by us and closely associated with specific epithelial conditions are functionally related with energy and phosphorus supply . |
| 17 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 18 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 19 | You may have loved her or hated her , agreed with her or violently opposed her , but not even her worst enemy could have accused her of spinelessness or a desire to be shielded from life 's little unpleasantnesses . |
| 20 | He had respected her lack of interest in what others might have called sexual morality , had respected the fact that she had slept with him and neither offered nor expected anything in return . |
| 21 | Even Mr. Arabin , the debatable ‘ hero ’ of the novel is drawn to her and nearly loses Eleanor , the ‘ heroine ’ , though in a strange quirk , which reflects human nature , Madeline does actually bring them together . |
| 22 | David saw the effect his words had had on her and quickly tried to take away the sting . |
| 23 | Having read the Synod class letter I will assume you have n't acted on it and therefore rule , resolution one . |
| 24 | It had occurred to him that simply to refuse to discuss his movements would have led Erica inevitably to his real job . |
| 25 | Knowing what your rights may be worth in money terms will help you not only to decide whether or not to take legal action , if necessary , to recover the sums due to you , but also to assess the reasonableness of any ‘ termination package deal ’ offered to you and generally to plan ahead for the future . |
| 26 | The buffet tables were now open , and most people in here were either crowded around them or else standing in line with plates ; she could see the two Venetz sisters and their fill-in staff working the tables , carving , serving , and fetching . |
| 27 | Diana , for her part , thought she would become a wife and mother ; but , with all the servants and secretaries who surrounded the Prince , including a valet who selected and prepared his clothes for the day , packed for him and even did his personal shopping , she felt superfluous , and just a little jealous . |
| 28 | Yeah well at least I 'd get rid of it and then start again . |
| 29 | It has stayed with me and currently resides in my DOS directory . |
| 30 | The study explored the experience of secondees as they prepared for secondment , adjusted to it , stabilised within it and finally departed from it . |