Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave me food with stones and yak dung , but it was still not enough and they put it in a urine container . |
| 2 | The change of term was not quick enough and he covered it with a grandiose sweep of his hand which nearly knocked over the Doctor 's goblet . |
| 3 | Then I got my seventy odd and she got another week 's money and we just put it all together and we split it down the middle said right there 's your half , there 's mine |
| 4 | We all do things together and it lifted us for the game on Saturday . |
| 5 | I said that he could try to put the cube together and I left him with the pieces while I went to fetch some paper . |
| 6 | She says you get new ten pound notes , they stick together and you count them as one . |
| 7 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 8 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 9 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 10 | Then they took her away and we knew nothing of her until her body was found eight days later , along with that of her son and two unknown men . |
| 11 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 12 | Anyway , I thought I 'll have this away and I slid it off the shelf and it dropped like a ton of bricks on me leg and broke me ankle . |
| 13 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 14 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 15 | She struggled to get away but he pulled her towards him , laughing down at her . |
| 16 | The police would have to know about this visit , of course ; her conscience persistently reminded her that she should have informed Harris already but she silenced it by telling herself that a few hours would make no difference . |
| 17 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 18 | It moved slowly and she cursed herself for having forgotten her gloves and scarf . |
| 19 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 20 | There was no doubt in her mind that he was doing this deliberately and it drove her to forcefulness . |
| 21 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 22 | We have tried to stand aside and we see ourselves as an institute that cares |
| 23 | He stood up smartly and she followed him with gratitude as he took from his pocket a large bunch of keys , from each of which dangled a carefully written label . |
| 24 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 25 | the one I make , I made it once and you liked it with the almonds on top |
| 26 | There was a survey once and it said everybody in the country has seen Marathon Man ! |
| 27 | I laughed at his coat once and he pushed me off a bar stool . ’ |
| 28 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reasons why we are updating Trident are basically the same reasons as caused the Labour Government to update our nuclear deterrent by bringing in Chevaline , the difference being that we are doing it openly and they did it under wraps ? |
| 30 | She said his name helplessly and he impelled her towards him , capturing her mouth with his , kissing her hungrily and intimately , and she moved urgently against him as his hands explored her body . |