Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was an old deckhouse off a ship and these old chaps used to meet there and I suppose they 'd be talking of old times — shipbuilding . |
| 32 | Daggerboards and mast tracks should be made to work freely and you should be confident with the non-slip surface . |
| 33 | Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ? |
| 34 | The present arrangements appear to work satisfactorily and I see no reason to alter the present position . |
| 35 | right , they jump in my cab and I decide to drive away and he phones and then he |
| 36 | We employ an elderly book-keeper who is due to retire soon and I am concerned about getting someone to replace her as the books that she is keeping appear quite complicated . |
| 37 | do we want to erm go I mean obviously we want to go away and I 'll do it with my friend and you 'll do it your |
| 38 | The project has run to schedule throughout and we have maintained volumes , thanks to the co-operation of everyone in the mill who have accepted enormous changes in working practices and got to grips with the new system quickly and competently — its ultimate success will be a tribute to them all . |
| 39 | However , I think the practicalities in the situation are that we have to face the fact that they are not going to behave impartially and you see we have a classic example in er the circumstances of our own situation as described by John . |
| 40 | The dog 's tail began to wag frantically and he ran round her , barking shrilly . |
| 41 | There , they are likely to listen sympathetically and you may be lucky and catch them on a quiet day . |
| 42 | Then Louie grins and says : ‘ He is welcome to drink here but he 'd better not choose the chair with its back to the door . ’ |
| 43 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 44 | She began to mutter again and he leaned forward to listen . |
| 45 | They have to explain that although they 're priests they 're really not credulous nitwits , and then they feel they have to go further and they end up writing books about it and yapping away on the television . ’ |
| 46 | We are all delighted that she will be able to go home but we will all miss her . |
| 47 | I told her I was scared to go home but I thought I ought to , and of course she said , ‘ You 'd be best to come here , then , and when you feel like it , we can phone your parents and tell them whatever you want them to know . |
| 48 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 49 | She was far too early to go to the office , it was a waste of time to go home and she could think of nothing to do . |
| 50 | Mrs Phillips said the baby did not settle when they were allowed to go home and she expressed continuing concern to a community midwife . |
| 51 | I tried to smile politely but I was beginning to feel frightened . |
| 52 | Looking back at the Hayward Gallery showing of Black ( male ) work in '89 , it is obvious that it is still vital for Blackwomen Artists to organise together or we will simply be written out of history once again . |
| 53 | Rocastle continued to play brilliantly and it was he who crossed the ball in for the third . |
| 54 | Well Freda reckons this , that feather of ours is beginning to stick together and they 're not , well I suppose pillows are |
| 55 | ‘ Now we have the chance to play together and I believe this will be a wonderful occasion . ’ |
| 56 | On their wedding night she sent him to look outside and he saw , as a symbol of their future descendants , lions , unicorns and leopards ; bears and wolves ; and finally dogs . |
| 57 | So the fact that Bolton before tonight had got three points as too had Notts , is er indicative of the fact that Notts need to win tonight and they could do with Bolton losing . |
| 58 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 59 | try to walk away and I 'll come to depend on you , I give you all the love I had in me da da da I ca n't believe it 's true you better stop stop with my heart , you always break my heart , you better stop before you tear us all apart you better stop . |
| 60 | and so you could pull it in just until it stops flapping and then you 'd be able to sail away and we 'd never see you again . |