Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where she weave it like that ? |
| 2 | Eating and drinking is particularly good value — you can get a 6 course ‘ Mezes ’ meal , where you get lots of small dishes of Turkish delicacies for about £3 although a good bottle of wine may set you back 70p ! |
| 3 | It 's if it goes where you want it to that 's hard . |
| 4 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 5 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |
| 6 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 7 | We both like beans on toast , although I like mine with liberal lashings of Worcester sauce , which I expect is far too exotic for the Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 9 | Although I take her on short trips to the shops , she ca n't cope with going too far from the house . |
| 10 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 11 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 12 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 13 | The tent-pole bag was torn , so I put it on one side with the sewing kit . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too . |
| 15 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 16 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 17 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 18 | Once I saw myself as one of a brilliant band of aid workers . |
| 19 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 20 | She hated it , and hated him , but she was no longer resisting him , so she accepted it in aching silence , desire overwhelming pride at last . |
| 21 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 22 | You ca n't do it with one , it 's too few , and you do n't need three , so you do it with two . |
| 23 | Er , she gets that for every ten pounds she 's got to spend , so you multiply it by three point eight , yes ? |
| 24 | ‘ So you found her after all . |
| 25 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 26 | the other one , so we left it on that channel , channel nine I think it were . |
| 27 | One , two , three , so we separate yourself into different groups . |
| 28 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 29 | She went on without prompting : ‘ Although he was a painter he was a very literary man so we had plenty in common . |
| 30 | One cultural tendency feminists must be critical of , and ultimately indeed try to eliminate , is the tendency to impose the categories ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ on every aspect of life , so we see them as natural categories instead of what they are , restrictive and unequal constructs . |