Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I was putting them down I saw a piece of paper leaning against the spice-rack . |
| 2 | So he went home and he out about two weeks got fed up , you know , like that man you know , doing nothing so he had a scooter that needed repairing he died as he repaired the scooter ! |
| 3 | So here 's the hypothesis to explain that ellipsis is confined to constituents where constituents are just what they sound like , genuine components of a larger thing which is signalled by sticking brackets , labelled brackets round them so they make a phrase and you can do certain things with them . |
| 4 | I spend I spend a lot of time with them so I spend a lot talking to them . |
| 5 | But what does happen is that people are directed away from blighted homes we know that that happens , it happens all the time , as soon as a home 's name is mentioned social workers , quite honourably believe that there 's no sense in putting down people 's names , no no sense in sending people there and you would expect nothing different from them so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy . |
| 6 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 7 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 8 | and I 'd rather so I so I put a description in , asked for a description yesterday , |
| 9 | I 'm sure that 's why I never win anything , I 've got such an intent to win when I ever I enter a competition , like I du n no . |
| 10 | Well okay well look I I now I need a commitment . |
| 11 | Well I well I tell a lie I tried it once . |
| 12 | But one thing is common to all who follow the process of reforming in feeling : that is experience of the life of desire for God , freed from any earthly considerations , as an entry from the light of the world into a darkness in which things normally hidden from sight can gradually be discerned , and in which ultimately there grows a vision of a greater light . |
| 13 | No , if you only you had a fart coming . |
| 14 | No , if you only you had a fart coming . |
| 15 | He lunges at you so you grab a knife and plunge it into his chest . |
| 16 | Otherwise , I hope to hear from you whenever you have a moment . |
| 17 | So she said I 'll do I 'll sort it out straight away for you well I had a phone call at |
| 18 | Of course if they come to you then you get a feel of how the equipment is going to feel in your office , and that can be useful too . |
| 19 | Tt , erm plotting graphs , you had one question did n't you where they asked a gradient ? |
| 20 | ‘ Has Dickie told you yet you had a phone-call ? ’ she asked over her shoulder . |
| 21 | This ultimate dependence becomes obvious to me whenever I make a mistake about others by supposing them to be like myself . |
| 22 | Everyone near you holds a razor in the palm of his hand . |
| 23 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 24 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 25 | If you throw them out it causes a disturbance . |
| 26 | But my message to anybody else who gets a knock on the door from somebody who calls themselves an antique dealer is never , ever let them in . ’ |
| 27 | But there was nothing here which rang a bell . |
| 28 | To him also it represented a period of barbarism and decline . |
| 29 | Because of the after-effects of meningitis she had as a baby , I usually accompany her whenever she sees a doctor . |
| 30 | I mean , I mean there are er there are , I mean they probably I think a lot of them probably are not social work qualified . |