Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home …
2 So where she fill it up from ?
3 That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest .
4 If anyones around leeds at the time the two pubs I would suggest going to watch it are The Pack horse in town ( where they put it on in a private room upstairs for our convenience ) or the Fav up near the Uni where they have about 20 screens and away fans get regularly beat up ! ! ! !
5 He took her by back streets to Golden Lane , where he handed her over to Noakes , the mortuary attendant .
6 The former schoolteacher said : ‘ I do n't take the mickey out of the contestants any more than I take it out of myself .
7 My hat 's fell off so I stick it back on and look round .
8 I do n't mind shopping on Saturday when I 've got the money , but I do n't like it during the week — I 'm usually broke by Monday — so I keep it down to a minimum .
9 Disconnect the mains lead to your PC and plug it into the Expert ; there are two sockets for power leads leaving the UPS , so I checked it out with two PCs .
10 Angela , 19 , from Woolton and presently studying medicine at Nottingham University , says : ‘ I had all the classic symptoms of flu so I put it down to that .
11 But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again .
12 Like , I did n't know whether to believe him or not , but you 'd feel wick if he was n't spoofing , so I let him off with a caution .
13 So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end .
14 Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City .
15 When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally .
16 I assumed something was wrong with the unit , so I took it back from where I bought it and got another one .
17 I looked at my clock to find that it was nine thirty so I dragged myself out of bed and put on my dressing gown .
18 Took it in part exchange last week and I 've got a buyer coming Wednesday so I want it back in one piece .
19 It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed .
20 Once I get them up from their rest , we go off to the lake and feed the ducks or we go to friends .
21 So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ?
22 The wife does n't know it , so she passes it on to her husband .
23 Only those thoughts were too uncomfortable to contemplate so she pushed them back into her mind .
24 Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her .
25 They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings .
26 Yes , so you divided it up like that
27 You run away from real men , so you take it out on horses , you lousy Latin creeps . ’
28 So you dragged me off to Ghar Hasan … ? ’ she whispered shakily .
29 erm What happens if erm your boss is n't on the phone and their boss has transferred all their calls to the other phone , the other phone rings as well as the secretaries ring , so you pick it up on your phone , which is R star star 3 , and then you want to get it through to the boss , but when you ring the number it comes through to the other phone .
30 So you pushed her out of the car and gave the whole game away ? ’
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