Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 2 | For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’ |
| 3 | so that says something about specialization of production possibly , that countries are now more highly specialized than they once were . |
| 4 | She scrutinised a dilapidated man on the pavement outside who was passing from rubbish bin to rubbish bin , rustling around inside and placing everything of interest in a plastic bag . |
| 5 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 6 | At this point Sergeant Aitken came in and muttered something in the Inspector 's ear . |
| 7 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 8 | The proprietor took over , and was still serving the portions when one of the waitresses came in and whispered something to Delaney . |
| 9 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 10 | Now one of the things that it must be very tempting to do is say , Yippee I 've got my list and go dashing in and phone everybody in sight |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ says Freddie , ‘ one 's tempted to just plunge in and put everything to rights . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We just went in and did everything for everybody . |
| 13 | Pop in and enjoy everything from a fine à la carte meal to a chat over a drink . |
| 14 | Extract 1 A : so if there 's a hardware store we could call in and get one on the way back B : do you think there is one A : yes B : OK then * A : that would be nice would n't it ? |
| 15 | ‘ We have discussed our marriage many times over the last four or five years and then we just sat down and put everything into perspective . |
| 16 | My mother sat my daughter down and said something like , ‘ Look , I know your mother 's up to something , she 's sick , she needs help , we 've got to help her . |
| 17 | However , there is always the remote possibility that you might run down and injure someone in the water , which could cost you as much as £100,000 ! |
| 18 | In fact at the risk of sounding patronizingly sexist , I would be prepared to bet that what Manuela really wanted was to get married , settle down and have lots of children . |
| 19 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 20 | Hands in his clay-coloured raincoat , Gaily , myopic , bent down and read one at random , wonderingly . |
| 21 | He turned the bag upside down and dumped everything onto the floor , and then he did the same for the drawers and for the wardrobe . |
| 22 | You have to admire the ones with the guts to go it alone and make something of their lives when times are hard , even if the ways they do so are not strictly legal . |
| 23 | the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble . |
| 24 | I ca n't see the exiles and émigrés banding together and achieving anything of importance but limited media coverage . ’ |
| 25 | Three young men from Hartwell , John Charles Kingston , Felix Smith and Bill Spriggs , unable to afford a bicycle each , clubbed together and bought one between them . |
| 26 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 27 | Herbaceous borders or mixed borders , or even the island beds of herbaceous perennials which make an interesting alternative , are a standard feature in many gardens , but few garden-owners take the word " herbaceous " literally and grow nothing but herbs in their beds or borders . |
| 28 | The figure of Robert Duvall was holding a briefcase ; he glanced inside but found nothing but a sheet of blank paper . |
| 29 | The next issue is whether the managers benefit from their position as directors or employees so as to acquire something for less than its full market value . |
| 30 | The female detective glanced around the canteen and spoke in a confidential whisper , her eyes drilling into Pargeter 's so as to miss none of her reactions . |