Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [vb base] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 2 | Everyone knows the name and thinks they know the story . |
| 3 | These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes . |
| 4 | Then the scuffles subside and I think I hear my bedroom door opening , so my finger tightens on the trigger and I hear my name and I shake my head and I recognize the voice and I know it is Jancey and she 's shouting where am I and I think they 've grabbed her and made her act the decoy and I 'm trying to work out what to do when I hear what she 's saying . |
| 5 | The other car had skidded into hers and made her forget the phone call . |
| 6 | Jane closed her eyes and made her mind a blank ; Lucinda sighed tremulously , and from her seat in the window Vi coughed nervously , yet the glass remained stubbornly still . |
| 7 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 8 | Assemble a collection of long objects ( or any objects will do ) in a pile and say they represent a number , e.g. four . |
| 9 | But is it up to them to actually go to D S S and say I want a payment now ? |
| 10 | If you phone in t erm the Talking Yellow Pages and say I need a conference centre in Derbyshire , they 'll probably tell you that one . |
| 11 | Improved knowledge of the basic mechanisms of gastric secretion led to the development of synthetic drugs such as cimetidine and ranitidine which block the action of histamine , by occupying the histamine receptors in the parietal cell ( H2receptors ) . |
| 12 | On descent he met Wanda at 8,300 metres and helped her arrange a bivouac . |
| 13 | Only one way to grab his interest — give him a Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown at the outset of our allotted five-minute interview and hope we have the chance to exchange more than names . |
| 14 | Well you 've got to put your you 've got to put your hand down and hope you turn the rest turn up with the rest of the box . |
| 15 | Instead I had to sit and watch him produce the belt , and although he seemed pleased enough with it the incident left me even more empty of joy than before . |
| 16 | ‘ Are n't you going to stay and watch us win the prize ? ’ |
| 17 | I 'll walk you to the hotel and show you round the hospital tomorrow . ’ |
| 18 | For more than 20 years the IRA has been executing a horrendous campaign of genocide against the Protestant community , and in the names of the thousands of dead and injured I urge the Government to take the war to the terrorists . |
| 19 | The Family Policy Studies Centre ( address on page 146 ) calls women carers ‘ the forgotten army ’ and says they provide a service which saves the government billions of pounds a year . |
| 20 | My sister , who has always been better off than us , has suggested that I should go abroad with her this year , and says I have no excuse because I have the money and that is what our mother would have wanted me to do with it . |
| 21 | I dress in the red blouse and black skirt , and watch myself do a twirl in the mirror . |
| 22 | His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award . |
| 23 | Leyburn magistrates yesterday banned Adrian Pinnell , 20 , from driving for two years and ordered he pay a total of £730 in fines and costs . |
| 24 | Disconcerted , she said goodbye , and watched him leave the room . |
| 25 | Then she ruffled the parakeet 's crest and watched it peck a sunflower seed . |
| 26 | In the second , more optimistic ending , Pip returns to the forge after working abroad for eleven years and goes to Hoe and Biddy and finds they have a son , also called Pip . |
| 27 | Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar . |
| 28 | After serving a customer , you open the till drawer and find you have no change . |
| 29 | We are both happy with the contract we have got and feel we have the ability to control the situation . |
| 30 | But nor had she been allowed to use the telephone or leave the office , except for one visit to the toilet down the corridor accompanied by a sour-faced secretary who weighed at least twelve stone and insisted she leave the door ajar . |