Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the man goes sorry mate we do n't do blood . |
| 2 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 3 | They 're signalling Oh I do n't want to go that way I want the next one . |
| 4 | I hate that top she wears . |
| 5 | Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) . |
| 6 | The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now . |
| 7 | The room was silent save for the angry swishing sound she made each time she turned the magazine 's pages . |
| 8 | So far we have considered how natural language might have developed that complexity which sets it off so dramatically from the signalling systems of other species . |
| 9 | Of course after he made that statement he did n't realize that the London Region were gon na put a thousand pound in the bucket ! |
| 10 | I did say to him once that er I said if you do n't want that ivy I said you chuck it out , chop it down and throw it over my side cos it 's my responsibility |
| 11 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 12 | As chair of the Land and Building Working Party which reports directly to Planning and Resources Committee , Professor Costall is aware that the profile of the University buildings needs to be raised . |
| 13 | The argument establishes that by accepting that authority one follows reasons which apply to one anyway . |
| 14 | I want to thank that girl who spat at her at a bus stop . |
| 15 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 16 | Before I lose that home I 've got , I 'm |
| 17 | So I mean that day we had to tell a lot of lies , you know , like that . |
| 18 | I mean that thing I went to on Wednesday it must have cost thousands of pounds . |
| 19 | As you face the station , he lived that side you see and er there , the room where they used to entertain their friends was just the other side of the wall the booking office , you see , and er he was such a kind man , his name was Mr |
| 20 | Her hair looked very red in the bright light from the kitchen , and her ear-rings twinkled each time she moved her head . |
| 21 | Does not that show that when we introduce private enterprise we turn muck into brass ? |
| 22 | A grid of reference wires in front of the rotating map presented the hours , and as the solar image passed each wire it indicated the time as well as any sundial could . |
| 23 | We got roast beef we got the most important |
| 24 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 25 | Next time I passed that way I kept a look-out , and sure enough , there it was , sleeping in the same ‘ couch ’ on the skerry . |
| 26 | Now , given that so much of that pruning has already been done and given that even given that situation we have never yet reached four percent contingent er turnover savings , I think it highly unlikely and so do the officers , that they will be achieved this year . |
| 27 | When you met this man you say you loved , surely you could have told me . " |
| 28 | Having examined this location I regret to advise you that there are several reasons why this stop can not be relocated as requested . |
| 29 | She met another man she knew and was dancing with him when Antonio discovered her , whereupon he was heard by onlookers to curse the moon for trusting in his fiancée 's purity . |
| 30 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |