Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 2 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 3 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 4 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 5 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 6 | The last one standing would be cheered on until he too dropped . |
| 7 | For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city . |
| 8 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 9 | Do n't look to the right , to the left , or over your shoulder , but concentrate on where you 're going . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't heard how they got on but I saw Mick just before he went and he was very positive , ’ said Ronnie . |
| 11 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 12 | Actually erm Barbara took , went with her niece to , for the audition and er what I 'm not sure of , a a and Barbara got on and her niece did n't , what I 'm not sure is whether , when she went down , she was thinking that , of sort of er an audition for herself or whether they approached her because apparently they , they do n't get too many of the senior people . |
| 13 | How you met her , how she got on when she first came over here … ’ |
| 14 | You know , I should think somewhere where you are |
| 15 | Oh yeah listen to the rattling on and everything . |
| 16 | ‘ All calls will be treated confidentially and there should be no fear at all of their identity being disclosed . ’ |
| 17 | Do n't eliminate somewhere because it sounds ridiculous or out of the question . |
| 18 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 19 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 20 | He or she will be obliged to wait politely as you go about your task , which you can time to complete at the same moment you recover the skill of breathing in and out . |
| 21 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 22 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 23 | He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees . |
| 24 | She fought bitterly as he came back to her . |
| 25 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 26 | Fairley asked politely as they took the floor . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll stay right where you are until I 've made you a hot drink . |
| 28 | He wanted me to drive on and I was in no position to argue . |
| 29 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 30 | We , we always , we were lucky we ha knew a man named he lived on and he was a butcher in his rights , his own rights you know , just like and , and but er , me dad 's brother or somebody knew him and , and he used to come and do it for us like , you know . |