Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 2 | Ronni glared at him fiercely and tried to loosen his grip on her hair with a punch . |
| 3 | ‘ I have heard him criticising his players as not good enough and trying to rationalise their situation to dampen expectations back home . |
| 4 | It is not surprising that new fossil species are discovered daily , and indeed the amateur collector has a good chance of finding a new species of fossil , if he looks hard enough and learns to recognize what he has found . |
| 5 | In any case Kent County Council is concerned that they do not go far enough and has produced its own traffic strategy designed to reduce the pressure on smaller roads . |
| 6 | Then she examined what she could of her singed hair , licked her cut lip better and tried to smooth her broken nails . |
| 7 | Opening her door , she edged inside and tried to close it . |
| 8 | The Doctor pushed her down gently and tried to make her comfortable . |
| 9 | We love her so much and want to give her a lovely home . |
| 10 | I told her that I loved her very much and wanted to marry her . |
| 11 | The deathbed scene ; the funeral ; the sadness of friends , and the smugness of certain relations who never liked you much and have outlived you ( just wait till my will is read ! ) . |
| 12 | The phone rang , and she rose lethargically and went to answer it . |
| 13 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 14 | Sarah 's young sister Kate came in and offered to do her step dancing to one of the records . |
| 15 | After that , they broke in and began to steal whatever they could carry away — little things at first , like crockery and silver , but later on the furniture went as well . |
| 16 | Peter came in and began to chat me up . |
| 17 | ‘ Michael was in a play in London and he came in and kept asking me to play Donovan 's Catch the Wind , ’ recalled Gabrielle . |
| 18 | When Jennie came in and asked to see what we were doing , we were giggling so much , she would say , ‘ What are yer giggling at , yer little monkeys ? ’ |
| 19 | This diversity accounts for the mutually contradictory complaints that are frequently voiced by village locals : that the newcomers come in and try to run everything or that they take no part in village life and are not ‘ involved ’ . |
| 20 | We take her in and try to comfort her , but she just pines . |
| 21 | And walk in and expect to see them all in order . |
| 22 | ‘ And OK , I get carried away like today when the pigs wade in and start throwing their weight about . ’ |
| 23 | The fingers move gently in and start to tickle it or rub its face and then , without warning , grab it and pick it up . |
| 24 | I said mark the chap that she 's got at the moment is taking her out to discos and things and she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 25 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 26 | His mother screaming as she was raped ; his brother bursting from their hiding place to run in and try to save her . |
| 27 | ‘ One man got in and tried to strangle him but I pulled him off , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Now you may have a customer that comes into the shop at A and they need something desperately , they walk in the sho , may walk in and say look I need that compact disc player , my life depends on having compact disc player and shopkeeper no see now we have n't got it . |
| 29 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
| 30 | The number of sleepless nights I 've had over that smooth bastard moving in and Jozef kicking me out of bed . ’ |