Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person ‘ goosed ’ then chases round and tries to catch the runner before he or she gets back to the space where the goosed person was sitting . |
| 2 | Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ? |
| 3 | Go to a hairdresser , ask him or her to come up with a style that suits you , your hair , your lifestyle , and emerge looking and feeling great . |
| 4 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 5 | The town 's smaller churches had either already disappeared by 1461 ( All Saints ' beyond the Bridge , St. Mary Bynwerk and St. Michael at Cornstall ) , or they continued up until the mid-sixteenth century ( St. Stephen , St. Andrew , St. Peter and St. Clement ) . |
| 6 | or they turn up at the gates and go shit Mr like the headmaster 's on the door and my nipples are in and they go hang on I 've got some ice cubes here , put them on and they come out and er they go by the nipples , your nipples are looking good today . |
| 7 | It rolls up , it , it 's retractable inside the body or it drops off after an orgasm |
| 8 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 9 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 10 | Like Ricky and me clinging on to the past , thought Daisy . |
| 11 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 12 | Derek and me went along to the new wans Christening and he was like a tink ! |
| 13 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 14 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
| 15 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 16 | What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ? |
| 17 | As in Protevangelium ; And I looked up into the pole of the heavens and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion … |
| 18 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 19 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
| 20 | And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement . |
| 21 | And I looked up unto the pole of the heaven and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion . |
| 22 | I could n't let this frail old man go In there and maybe get knocked down and savaged , and I looked around for a means of protection . |
| 23 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Fuck you , ’ the Maggot screamed at whoever fired at him and I looked out of the Beechcraft 's side window to see palm trees going past at over 150 miles an hour and above us . |
| 25 | ‘ Sergeant Jennings here will make some tea , then she 'll stay with you while Mr Morgan and I go over to the stables . |
| 26 | ‘ So , in the meantime — ’ it was almost as though he 'd read her mind ! ‘ — I suggest that you and I go back to the party . |
| 27 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 28 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 29 | And I popped out to the shop on Sunday the second of November and came back totally and utterly bemused to see them putting a christmas tree up and father christmas in the window and fairy lights all over the place . |
| 30 | And he was n't in today I mean came into work and I passed out in the . . |