Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Why do yer want me ter have a key ? ’ |
2 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
3 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
4 | I had no awareness of the supposed stereotypical mother of that era — lipsticked and aproned , waiting at the door — and do n't think I even encountered a picture of her , in books , comics or film , until the early 1960s . |
5 | No I was just about to say confidence really I find it quite difficult to get assertive erm but when the situation does arise I suddenly get a gut feeling about it later |
6 | I do n't know I just watched a clip |
7 | Then if I get caught I just get a caution and that 's it . |
8 | D' ya really have a bath you do do n't you ? |
9 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
10 | There are others who never will , and you 'll have a constant battle to establish you right to have a share in making decisions , and knowing where the money goes . |
11 | Stretch goodbye to the pain and forget you even have a shoulder . |
12 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
13 | But the thing is that your er particular area you know , if you wanted to do one and not save it , you do n't have to save , you know , you know you can print it off and it 's done , but you can send mail to Tracey or headquarters C A , you would n't have to print it out once it 's what you want you just press a button and it goes . |
14 | That 's when I want you here to keep a watch on him . ’ |
15 | The clues can be written in rhyme e.g. ‘ look as well as you are able , the first clue is by the kitchen table , ‘ You 've found a clue , if you want one more take a look by the kitchen door . ’ |
16 | We 're out to pass you really , but we we wo n't unless it 's worth it , but erm the emphasis is on trying to find something there to give a mark to sort of thing rather than the other way around . |
17 | ‘ How come we suddenly need a cox ? ’ |
18 | And the nearly murdered baby , how was it , where was it , Liz wondered , and found herself involuntarily doing a head count of her own stepchildren and children : she could see Jonathan , Alan and Sally ; her younger daughter Stella was away in Florence studying Italian , for her A levels , and staying safely and respectably as paying guest with art-historical friends of Esther ; but where was her middle stepson , Aaron ? |
19 | I could n't see the clock — I did n't know they even had a clock . |
20 | Describing London as ‘ a city of illusions , subject every now and then to a series of harsh awakenings ’ , The Echo ( 11 August 1898 ) believed that while some of the stones were undoubtedly exaggerated they nevertheless served a purpose : ‘ We steadily shut our eyes to the submerged lawlessness of less fortunate districts until a series of Whitechapel outrages , or Hooligan exploits , make us not only aware of what is going on , but actually afraid of our lives . ’ |
21 | The man , whose name has not been released , was a well known visitor to the libraries in question and was not suspected until the police were able to catch him red-handed lifting a title-page from a book . |
22 | The man ran off towards Banbury railway station , where police say they later found a weapon hidden in the men 's toilet . |
23 | People living near the former English Martyrs School in Poplars Avenue , Orford , Warrington , say they desperately need a centre for the young , elderly and disabled of the area . |
24 | Has he ever cooked a pie that comes out the oven cold ? |
25 | Has anyone else noticed a benefit of the wondrous new VAT regulations ? |
26 | Has anyone else got a love letter from our Swedish arsehole . |
27 | Has anyone else experienced a problem with rape fields ? |
28 | Has anyone ever had a go at one of these ‘ Fantasy football leagues ’ . |
29 | Has anyone ever had a go at one of these ‘ Fantasy football leagues ’ . |
30 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |