Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched them suspiciously as they plodded through the soft , dry sand all churned-up with trippers ’ footprints . |
| 2 | They told how the man whom they had trusted and referred to as ‘ Dad ’ fondled them indecently while they sat on his knee in their pyjamas watching television in his rooms at Elm Tree Farm Community Home , Stockton , Cleveland . |
| 3 | I did n't know whether my imagination was leading me astray when you seemed to be implying something like that . ’ |
| 4 | The problem is how to link them so that they become like sentences in a play or poem . |
| 5 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |
| 6 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 7 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 8 | It was his second gin , and they poured them so that they tasted like a horse 's kick . |
| 9 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 10 | He walked towards her with his hands outstretched , and she clasped them warmly before she thought about what she was doing . |
| 11 | Lili watched me thoughtfully as I put on my skirt and blouse . |
| 12 | Er , and I always reckon others will do the same , so I always take my notes on a , on a plain piece of paper , and put them together if I need to . |
| 13 | You relate as two real adults who probably share values and attitudes , enjoy many of the same things , doing them together and who care about the well-being and happiness of one another . |
| 14 | Mum takes me only because I mentioned to her that my periods have stopped . |
| 15 | it 's really funny I just when I wan na be simple it 's just like I 'm gon na break down in front of a man yeah and they just got , cos they 're mean |
| 16 | I Admittedly if we stay in the rural districts of England in 1700 we will discover that forty to fifty years is not unrealistic , but old age is rare . |
| 17 | Can I please because I have to be off in a few minutes . |
| 18 | Two adolescent girls in New Zealand had killed with a brick the mother of one of them just because they wanted to . |
| 19 | Spectacular scientific advances have come from them just as they have from other institutions . |
| 20 | So they traded them just as we traded with the wool and we 're talking twelfth century thirteenth century , fourteenth century . |
| 21 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 22 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 23 | I also wanted my son Mark , who 's in the army , to give me away before he went on a posting to Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 24 | And you wo n't get any more answers out of me just because you started to … started to … ’ |
| 25 | There were plenty more where they came from . |
| 26 | Still , there are plenty more where they came from . |
| 27 | He had been a nippy winger in Palace 's promotions side of 1963–64 and then acquitted himself well as we consolidated in Division Two , so he was a welcome recruit at Selhurst Park in mid-September 1971 , when Bert Head was restructuring his team in a successful attempt to ensure 1st Division survival . |
| 28 | You could perhaps team up with somebody else if you wanted to , so if you see someone and we 're just going through the order in which they appear . |
| 29 | And you 've done nothing but snap and shout at me ever since we came on board . ’ |
| 30 | Jimmy Dean gave them more than they bargained for . |