Example sentences of "the [noun] [coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years .
2 Innocent had the opportunity and he took it .
3 Convena did all his work and they asked him to go to London you know , there 's some was on years ago so he goes to the headquarters and he said he just could n't believe it , he turned on him and said you 're a shallow bloody hypocrite he said !
4 Erm , and eh and we , if the the Council also can provide supports for those groups and it 's us that will provide the support and we leave it as general as that .
5 Bobby Hunt was one who accompanied Minton on his weekly tour of the galleries and who found himself reading books he might not otherwise have read .
6 He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him .
7 Your asking me as chairman of the board and I think I can speak to the board I think that the theatre has actually managed very well .
8 And the same when it came to er subtracting , you see , it were all done on the board and you copied it onto your plate On to your slate .
9 To complicate the picture even further , there are a number of other devices which , although not strictly security interests in the sense of vesting some type of proprietary interest in the creditor or which give him possessory control over assets of the debtor company , nevertheless act as security .
10 He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out .
11 ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’
12 For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world .
13 In that you allow the tide to come in and then effectively close her down , so storing the water at the high level of the tide and you let it out through turbine generators when the sea is low , and the water running out , therefore , generates electricity .
14 In the mimicking phase the language helper will say the sentence and you say it after him as near to his pronunciation and intonation as you can get .
15 The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation .
16 The selectors did know the gender of the artists but they stressed their aim to choose a show that would appeal to a cross section of visitors .
17 We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn .
18 Me Aunty Linda 's not working either , like she did n't need the money but I mean he was on the dole for years me Uncle Ron .
19 I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me .
20 He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me .
21 She scooped in the money and he let himself out .
22 We gave him the money and he handed it immediately to Romany , the administrator of bribes .
23 ‘ He said he would kill her if I did n't hand over the money and I believed him .
24 It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight :
25 Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves .
26 Erm the blacksmith and we give them a horseshoe nail .
27 We phoned the vet and they talked us through what was happening .
28 The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it .
29 A dense fog descended on the field and I found myself isolated at left-half marking the right winger — yes , it was some years ago !
30 It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers .
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