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

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1 She was about to put the binoculars down ashamedly when he lifted his eyes from the paper .
2 He leaned down so that she saw his whole face was alight with a slightly satirical amusement .
3 Thanks for coming along tonight as you see we have our A G M tonight and er hope er to see a lot more faces here tonight
4 Drink had made George sentimental and he turned his mouth down lugubriously as he remembered his steady and the down payment on the furniture .
5 Yeah well they 've had , they 've erm , yeah the pink , the pink ones came in just after I passed mine .
6 I 'm so damned tired after the drive down here that I doubt I 'll have the energy for anything more than sleep . ’
7 ‘ My son was 18 when I moved down here and I left him with grandparents .
8 Erm that again had been rolled into balls and then he 'd have erm about a dozen sticks which which held these balls and stuck them in then after he 'd he 'd erm er thatched one erm length , one row , he 'd pull the string over and attach it to the the thick s er rope that was er going over the stack .
9 Come in then if you want me stop throwing tantrums
10 down there and me do it
11 I remember that in a little pot down there and you know they were labelled ?
12 And then we used to listen with our ear on the ground and we could hear where the dog was do you see , and then we used to dig down there because we knew it was fighting there with the with a vixen do you see .
13 Now the squad that worked down there when anybody left there was nobody would take their place .
14 I have turfs enough there to damp it down again before we leave it . ’
15 She read the first page of a review copy of the new novel by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor and put it down again when she realized she had n't taken in a single word .
16 I refuse to take it out because it just closes it down again and I thought I 'm not touching it
17 She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top .
18 The gun roared deafeningly in the small room , its lethal discharge taking Angel Two in the ribcage , almost tearing him in half as it punched him back across the room .
19 Erm there have been erm , I should have written it down actually because I 've I 've just gone a complete blank , there was that erm that famous case in the States ah and there were two people who 'd erm I think the main impetus for the abuse of their child came from the came from the man came from the husband and there was a great deal of er debate as to why the woman had n't successfully protected the child or successfully done something about it er and I 've forgotten the names of the people and I 've forgotten when it was .
20 I think the rule should be you should move on soon as you win one , I think .
21 A farmer friend of mine came to look the place over shortly after we bought it and he gave me some useful advice : that , whatever happened , we must enjoy doing the work .
22 Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess .
23 It stopped when she lifted her palm , and came through again when she put it back .
24 Cos they 'll try and sell it most of it off anyway because they have their stocktaking .
25 There 's no need to bite everyone 's head off just because they notice you 're a woman . ’
26 At this point I feel honour bound to remind Mister C that he 's talking to a journalist , that what might be an affectionate insult from his friends will probably piss him off massively when he sees it in print .
27 That Nan asking off early because she says her mother 's bad .
28 And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all .
29 and she said , she 'd got an electric cooker , can I finish cooking me tea on your cooker , huh , said it went off earlier than we thought I mean it was n't
30 He goes off again when I give him his cloth back .
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