Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because our movements slowly become stereotyped as life goes on and we tend to move in a way that feels ‘ right ’ to us . |
| 2 | ‘ She thinks I do n't know what goes on and I do n't say anything . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact that he goes on and he thinks his ideas are the ideas . |
| 4 | This belief in the witches power becomes more evident as the play goes on and he comes to rely on them for more . |
| 5 | When you were walking the rope , there 's so many of you walki you walk so far t till you meet another fellow , h he goes on and you come back . |
| 6 | The long day passed slowly and it grew very hot . |
| 7 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 8 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 9 | Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on . |
| 10 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |
| 11 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |
| 12 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 13 | I could really do with a bit of a sit down and summat to drink , so I go down the driveway into the station . |
| 14 | So now what 's happening is we 're before we 're doing an album we sit down and we pick out a lot of songs we decide right you know we need songs with good story books so the video is near enough planned with the recording of the song and it it 's a lot easier for us and a lot more enjoyable enough a lot more enjoyable . |
| 15 | Bloody hell I just sit down and it calls again . |
| 16 | But after an hour she had sewed enough and she felt a shift in the air . |
| 17 | I motioned to her to sit down and we started on the mail . |
| 18 | Irene Markham indicated for her to sit down and she perched on the very edge of an upright chair suddenly feeling quite miserable and wishing she had n't come . |
| 19 | She 's a clumsy clogs that 's why I wo n't let her walk around with the baby if she wants to cuddle her I tell her to sit down and I tell her not to move well she 's always tripping over her feet . |
| 20 | But a couple of errors crept in and we allowed Coventry to take the lead . ’ |
| 21 | down and there 's a path goes along and it comes , it goes under the road bridge and it comes out at the foot bridge and it runs next to it |
| 22 | They are the executive body , and the national assembly is the people of the Kuwait , and fifty members are directly elected by the people through the twenty constituencies which we have , and you have here the legislative body , in other words a parliament of fifty members and the government , and they sit together and they run the business of the country like any other parliament , and if you look to the television and see what happens in the House of Commons , it is exactly what happens in Kuwait . |
| 23 | They 'd broken in and they 'd better get out . |
| 24 | He put four big suitcases in the car then Minnie and Dympna got in and he drove off . ’ |
| 25 | He lived in and I believe he made that one , yeah . |
| 26 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
| 27 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 28 | Er the heating had broken down and I do n't know whether it was because of the heating or because of the tablets or whatever but they 're , they 're alright now . |
| 29 | If the provinces refuse to co-operate with the federal government , or decide to resign en masse , the president could say that government had broken down and he had grounds for sending Mr Sharif packing all over again . |
| 30 | Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk . |