Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way , a skilled speculator is not unlike a skilled insurance underwriter who accepts risks , prices them , passes them on and hedges them . |
| 2 | He follows me down and holds me in his arms . |
| 3 | He beckons me over and introduces me to Maggie . |
| 4 | In early winter , when the first snows come , he wears socks in the boots , but when it gets cold he takes them off and replaces them with grass . |
| 5 | He chucks them off and puts them back on again . |
| 6 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 7 | It 's gravity that pulls you down and presses you to the floor . |
| 8 | This taster of better things to come sucks you in and hugs your soul close . |
| 9 | If somebody calls you up and says something 's not working , always ask , well what did you change recently , and ninety five percent of the time , it 's that that 's the cause of the problems . |
| 10 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 11 | Never mind the boring breakbeat rubbish going around , this is the real story , which trips you up and hoses you down in a shower of sparkling special effects . |
| 12 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 13 | She then sorts all the vests and folds them up and puts them in the box , then the pants , then dresses and lastly cardigans . |
| 14 | just say , ok take them out , how he kills them when they 're , when the picks them up and throws them down again |
| 15 | If the distributor 's buyer opens them up and finds them not to comply with a condition in his contract he may reject them . |
| 16 | The wind picks me up and pushes me in front of it like an irate mother with a naughty child . |
| 17 | And she phoned me up and says what are you doing ? |
| 18 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 19 | Like a piece of luggage , he picks me up and throws me , he does , throws me down the Pit ! ’ |
| 20 | Crilly follows me back and kisses me , drawing the residue smoke from my mouth . |
| 21 | There 's a part of me that says ‘ Its OK to eat ’ , but another part tugs me back and stops me eating . |
| 22 | SATURDAY Nick Hancock Hugely enjoyable blast-off comedian who , like some smirking , behind-the-sheds schoolboy takes a list of his pet hates out of his pocket , lays them out and talks you through them one by one . |
| 23 | he takes them out and puts them on the sideboard . |
| 24 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |
| 25 | Erm , eventually he tracks him down and kills him , I could probably stretch that all out . |
| 26 | But unless Mr Clinton sits him down and tells him what he believes in , Mr Gergen will work no miracles . |
| 27 | He still finds her extremely beautiful and she practically apologises to Pip for all the suffering that she put him through and tells him that she hopes they will still be friends ‘ apart ’ . |
| 28 | Yet though the witches bring his already existing ambition out they can not be completely blamed for his downfall and degeneration as it this , his own ambition which eventually takes him over and turns him into a psychopath , killing merely out of feeling and without reason . |
| 29 | Iain pushes him off and lays him flat on the bed . |
| 30 | I know one thing she needs is mail from home , as this cheers her up and reminds her she is not alone . |