Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There are holy wells all over Ireland and they do at times attract strange practices , ’ he said . |
| 32 | I said so to Tom and he said of course this girl is n't all that popular with the men — that 's an important part of a production assistant 's job — and he said ‘ she 'd give anything to be in your place — to be married and have a baby ’ . |
| 33 | and had one on New Year 's Eve or Christmas Eve or something , they came in , a couple were passing , well they were only on holidays and they were looking , well our house is different I mean |
| 34 | If we are not yet ready for such a grave ceremony , sooner or later we will be ; and if anyone thinks it macabre or mawkish , let them first read Derek Humphry 's moving account in his book Jean 's Way of how , when his wife had entered the terminal stage of bone cancer , he and she sat together over coffee and she took the pill which , with her full approval , he had obtained and kept safe for the occasion , and how she died peacefully in his arms . |
| 35 | No such assurance was received , but the German troops advanced very rapidly , cawing some concern to Russia , so Stalin decided that he would prefer the German troops to stop halfway across Poland and he sent his — troops into that poor country from the east . |
| 36 | She looked warmly at Piers and he laughed softly under his breath . |
| 37 | I remember me gathering the hens up that night late oh about ten or eleven o'clock at night and we had our own power you see by that time . |
| 38 | Instead of just getting twelve hours light twelve hours dark we get you know it might not get dark until eleven o'clock at night and it gets light at about four o'clock in the morning . |
| 39 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 40 | He er he used to work from four in the morning till ten o'clock at night and he used to doss in the factory , did n't come home , |
| 41 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 42 | He has gone it alone at Harare and I am sure that we all support that in every possible way . |
| 43 | I on the other hand went on the stage entirely by design and it was no accident that after twenty-odd years , I found myself thinking more and more of my childhood heroine . |
| 44 | The 1982 A.G.M. was very poorly attended , especially by Q.T.s and we need to make a great effort to improve on this next year . |
| 45 | Dad moved slowly towards Mum and I could see by the look of him that he was furious . |
| 46 | Kafka 's genius lies in his having grasped that this was much more true to experience , much more realistic , than the rich sensuality and feeling for the individual etc. etc. of Lawrence and his much more pathetic followers . |
| 47 | The massive evidence of the repetition of first- and second-person pronouns entitles us to describe the Sonnets as moving forwards and backwards between I and Thou . |
| 48 | So do n't feel that that you should wait until the end although we do leave a a little bit at the end just for questions and you may have noticed that there 's either a tea break or a meal break after each talk . |
| 49 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 50 | I sent him away after supper and I 've been finishing Emma . |
| 51 | Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said ! |
| 52 | Think of the present problem with Bosnia there is n't a single er advanced industrial country that wishes to get engaged in ground warfare in Yugoslavia because there would be simply no point in it and any casualty er would be seen as a waste , as a throwing away of resources and you 'd have many casualties it 's argued . |
| 53 | It was just past dawn and she believed she had n't slept : not that night , nor the previous night , nor the night before that . |
| 54 | Then came the period when I used to hang out a lot just with DeFries and we 'd drive down to David and Angie 's place in Beckenham , Haddon Hall , on Sundays , and Angie would cook and we 'd sit around . |
| 55 | The coast dropped away into mist and we nosed into a world of fantasy . |
| 56 | Then the sun came through , and light brightened , and the standing dream that Wolski had seen seemed to drift away into memory and he found himself staring into the eyes of the old female golden eagle . |
| 57 | I was taken away in disgrace and I did n't care . |
| 58 | His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months . |
| 59 | Today the girl was kept away from school and she 's now being cared for at home by her parents . |
| 60 | I was trying to get away from percentages and I was trying not to pursue the thing any further . |