Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [pers pn] [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 2 | Frost ai n't good for plants , it turns them black and kills them off if you ai n't careful , but I reckon grass must be OK . |
| 3 | The daring manipulation of space , and especially of height , is deceiving : the internal length is only 131 feet , the width of the nave and the apse 30 feet , the width at the transepts 79 feet , but over the nave the intrusion of the cavernous tribune , on great round arches and with three windows to light its gallery , lifts the eye and leads it through while at first appearing to block the view . |
| 4 | unless somebody comes and gets you out and there 's , there 's nothing like it now |
| 5 | She then sorts all the vests and folds them up and puts them in the box , then the pants , then dresses and lastly cardigans . |
| 6 | he sometimes comes in and helps me out as well so very first class chap if you know anybody that needs a good headline writer Jack 's your man |
| 7 | ‘ She still manages to stick her fingers in the swabs with monotonous regularity , then she says ‘ Ooops ! ’ , grins and chucks them out and opens another pack . ’ |
| 8 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 9 | The duck is precisely the sort of person who buys second-hand postcards and carries them round and sends them to people . |
| 10 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |