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

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1 I 'll bring them little divils back to the house for ye , mam .
2 A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner .
3 Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground .
4 Do n't you … no , I rarely go down into the town at the weekends .
5 I eventually came round in the Chamden General Hospital and on the slab next to me was club chairman , Ken Mentle , an oxygen pump beside him , a nurse frantically thumping his chest and Ken rambling deliriously about a Micky Deere scorcher from the penalty spot which had given us victory .
6 When I eventually reversed out of the hedge , I discovered that it was a bin-liner dancing in the breeze .
7 I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager .
8 When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way .
9 The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’
10 I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else .
11 Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff .
12 I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case .
13 I live on the reserve from March until early December and during this time I only go over to the mainland about once a month .
14 I only dropped off for a second . ’
15 I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’
16 I only found out about the Japanese this morning .
17 If I suddenly swanned out of the bathroom in satin , Nick would have a fit .
18 I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence .
19 But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal .
20 I just dreamed out of the blue that she had died , and then she did die .
21 instead of just going , you should of said oh I just come up for a few days
22 I just stared up into the darkness .
23 He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay .
24 I just went on about the frogs in the flowers , and I never thought about his dreams .
25 I just came out in a sweat . ’
26 Did you notice I did refrain from discussing my hands and I just get on with the game !
27 I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day .
28 Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’
29 I read about 3.54 , 4.3 and 3.9 , what do they mean , which is best and will it solve the problem or should I just change back to a standard cam ?
30 Then I just rushed out of the pub and started runnin' , then you got in me way and knocked me over and sprained me ankle . ’
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