Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 2 | Her response was , ‘ You 'd better come in and give it to her yourself . ’ |
| 3 | and she 's never rung up and said anything about the shirts and trousers , |
| 4 | If he 'd looked around and fixed her with his melting eyes , she might have done . |
| 5 | Even with concussion she had struggled up and hit him with a frying pan . |
| 6 | The afternoon and evening seemed to pass with agonizing slowness , yet , when the time came for Maurice 's departure , it felt to Charlotte as if it had crept up and taken them by surprise . |
| 7 | He was wrong there , having misjudged the mood of Londoners , because even those who were completely bombed out and had nothing except the clothes they stood up in , nearly all came back again when the bombing eased off and they could find a roof to cover them . |
| 8 | The faint aroma of stale mackerel still hung around and did nothing for our personal charisma either . |
| 9 | Then suddenly the boar had turned about and hurled it into the air . |
| 10 | We found out that the sitting room had a timber panelled ceiling which had been papered over and given lots of coats of whitewash . |
| 11 | Ross , the steward , appeared , commiserated that they were all soaked through and took them into the lounge . |
| 12 | I thought he were gon na forget that , I thought I should of got up and told everybody at the front |
| 13 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 14 | This was the very thought in her head as she turned the corner of the corridor and back into the waiting room and saw the weeping figure of a woman hunched over and hugging herself with grief . |
| 15 | If she 'd had the power at that moment she would have reached out and crushed him into the carpet . |
| 16 | Then he had reached out and pulled her into his arms and held her tightly for a moment . |
| 17 | We took Roydale and Fringe from the lads and when Tremayne had driven off and positioned himself on his hillock we started together up the all-weather gallop , going the fastest I 'd been ever . |
| 18 | A drive that is ‘ unaware ’ of how it is set up and knows nothing of the way it 's data is stored . |
| 19 | Pardy , if it was Pardy , may have slipped up and written one by hand . |
| 20 | Yeah and she 's totally focused , she 's er , I think she 's got two children erm her husbands works , she 's got two children she 's brought up and developed herself to be a branch manager or assistant branch manager er she 's got a degree h now do n't listen to this Lorraine , who it said mid thirties |
| 21 | The shocked driver assumed that he had run over and killed someone on the line , but on investigation there was no injured person to be found . |
| 22 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 23 | And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all . |
| 24 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 25 | Seeing she was getting nowhere with Paul , he had taken over and saved her from having to cope with a great deal of harassment . |
| 26 | Tying her lead rope so tightly she could n't move her head , Luke had climbed up and approached her from above . |
| 27 | It was ultimately Craig 's responsibility and yet he had stood back and allowed himself to be duped and Emily 's father to be ruined . |
| 28 | sort of like what happened is that Robert was sort of like , the three of us sort of chipped in and bought it between us and stuff like that you know , so that all three of us would get the benefit of it |