Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ?
32 Sons of louts grappled with the coffin in vain ; they could neither cram it in nor twist it out .
33 Trent waited until the catamaran was pointing downriver , then he let go the stern line , pulling it in and coiling it down .
34 ‘ Someone might come in and offer me more money .
35 Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease .
36 My brothers 'd be watching his every move , just hoping he 'd put a foot wrong so they could jump in and scrag him .
37 One wanted to go in and break it up , a second to stay back and let them go home .
38 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
39 But we you know , one was one would be boiling the the white metal , we 'd we 'd fixed on the and er one would be boiling and pouring the stuff and the other cutting y you know breaking up the the mould sort of thing and piling the stuff out and as fast as we were piling them up , some beggar was creeping in and stealing them .
40 Would that we could as easily gather back all the things we have said in mistake over the years , gather them in and powder them down until not one trace of their original form is left .
41 Still gripping Nicola 's shirt , Goldman pulled her in and punched her , missing her face when she lurched away from the blow , but taking her on the body .
42 Well by this time it was ten to eight and I 'd got all these members were going to be outside , I was going to have to let them in and serve them and I was getting a bit frantic you see .
43 What fools they , you say they were not to go in and possess it !
44 As bad luck would have it , just as Mum was shouting , Granny walked in and surprised them .
45 You sure it does n't just push in and does it come ?
46 It has to be in a jug in case Mother Clare comes in and thinks I 'm being treated like someone normal .
47 Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah
48 Detective Constable Ian says the girl was in a tent when the youths burst in and attacked her .
49 People keep coming in and telling me I 'm doing wonderfully — but where 's the baby ?
50 Cut the bad stuff out and er put the new timber in and shape it to fit the existing door casing , architrave and
51 Er would you not say that this has shifted the onus of responsibility very much on to the financial institutions , the banks and others who had dealings with Mr Maxwell , and is n't the judge in effect saying in your interpretation er of that , that these institutions er really have got to show they were whiter than white in their dealings and actually went in and investigated him thoroughly ?
52 it 's just like drinking , it 's just like getting a spoonful of sugar and sticking it in and wiping it around .
53 And yet there was no school of thought which cultivated and refined that enthusiasm , no influential and witty group of young film makers who could draw him in and use him as C. A. Lejeune perceptively realised he could be used .
54 come in and use it as a
55 As Rain passed Tavett 's desk he cupped his face in his hands and moaned for her benefit , saying : ‘ Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in an ordinary office instead of a newspaper where every kind of freak feels entitled to barge in and collar you ? ’
56 It 's nice to see , it 's like Christmas , when our kids are older we 'll see pop in and visit them , but we wo n't ever year rang .
57 Put it in and screw it round and round and round , so that the pressure would fetch out the oil .
58 Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla !
59 Maybe I could come in and check it out while you wait in another room . ’
60 LT : The other speaker is likely to chip in and finish it off
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