Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had , at first , absolutely no hope of consent , and for a week or so she tossed in bed at night preparing to brace her spirit against the inevitable refusal . |
| 2 | ( Or so it said in the T&A last night ) . |
| 3 | He passed ‘ the pleasantest part of his youth ’ as a student at Edinburgh University — or so he declared in his will — and it was as a result of his generous bequest that the Faculty of Music was founded . |
| 4 | I must 've spilt summat or maybe I trod in a puddle cos my trousers are all wet and cold . |
| 5 | Or else we go in the afternoon and truss your pvc . |
| 6 | Either an eminent barrister , Matthew decided , about to buy his wife — not his mistress , not with that hair — some expensive bauble , or else he worked in Fortnum 's , down in Piccadilly , where all the salesmen dressed like that , and was just showing off to his mother . |
| 7 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 8 | While they were there , an elderly man came down the stairs from the upper floor ( with its second hand books and books of local interest ) , and started to wander around , absent-mindedly Clara could tell from a certain straining of attention on Walter 's part that he was trying to catch the old man 's eye , and eventually he succeeded in doing so ; the old man nodded and smiled , with a bare " minimum of recognition , and Walter said " Good morning , Mr Warbley . " |
| 9 | It was raw , frank and eventually it appeared in print . |
| 10 | Some people say that trotting on the roads helps harden the horse 's legs while others maintain that too much trotting mean too much concussion on legs and feet ; I follow the latter view and so we stayed in walk with the occasional gentle trot uphill . |
| 11 | Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home . |
| 12 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 13 | And so it happens in Court 13 . |
| 14 | A close contest between two evenly matched crews had been predicted and so it proved in conditions that were considerably better than had been anticipated . |
| 15 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 16 | She may say she loves you and perhaps she does in her way , but Pickles does n't think or feel deeply about anything . |
| 17 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 18 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |
| 19 | In general , it reaches a maximum thickness of 40–50 m near the basin margin but locally in the southern North Sea it attains a thickness of up to 90 m , and basinwards it decreases in thickness to less than 5 m ( Fig. 4c ) . |
| 20 | And again you would expect socialization and environmental factors to operate , and clearly they do in a trivial sense . |
| 21 | Even the churches , in making reports about Gartcosh , teachers ' pay , inner-city deprivation or whatever , are drawn into this political debate and inevitably they feel in order to be relevant they must offer political and practical solutions . |
| 22 | Since the government 's Autumn Statement we have seen increased health service charges , transport increases etcetera and now we hear in the recent Budget the result of Black Wednesday in September nineteen ninety two of which billions of pounds were thrown down the drain that workers will be expected to bear the burden once again . |
| 23 | The nurses meanwhile had put the tube in , and now they blew in some air as well . |
| 24 | And now they hug in the moonlight , one man with two backs , and on each back the number 11 . |
| 25 | My teacher , Peter Brown , made the mistake of praising my swing and now I swing in the kitchen whilst stacking the dishwasher , and just before bedtime in the bedroom whilst Jack 's out brushing his teeth . |
| 26 | He had had a lot of practice in persuading bullies not to thump him , and now he recognized in Simon , only too well , all the signs of a violent , bullying , and unpredictable nature . |
| 27 | And he stayed , and now he drops in here most days of the week and he practically runs the computer class in there . |
| 28 | Lucas had been relieved of belt , tie , shoelaces , and everything in his pockets , and now he sat in the far corner on the mattress with his knees drawn up and his arms clasped around them , as if to present the smallest possible outer surface to the world . |
| 29 | ‘ My dining room faces north and is difficult to heat , ’ he had said to Ianthe , and now he stood in it looking out of the window at the cold March day , fully conscious of his words . |
| 30 | You 've lived in Brighton and you 've lived in Kingston , and now you live in Lewes . |