Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the police had n't investigated him because of that stupid bitch Caroline he 'd have quietly taken what was his and still looked clean . |
| 2 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 3 | Visits of inspection to the cookhouses and latrines had a squalor about them that scarcely repaid even average keeness . |
| 4 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 5 | She was ten years older than me and already married to Jens , himself the youngest son of a neighbouring farmer , without property of his own . |
| 6 | ‘ But in the end the club wanted to keep me and even considered getting Margaret Thatcher involved in the transfer after QPR said no . ’ |
| 7 | You made a fool of me and thoroughly enjoyed doing it ! |
| 8 | Benjamin nodded apologetically to Sir John , beckoned to me and hastily followed . |
| 9 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |
| 10 | She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence … |
| 11 | He left nothing of the kind with me and never made any reference to such a document . |
| 12 | He looked at me and then sucked at his pipe again and shrugged his shoulders . |
| 13 | He held them strongly , but was capable of changing them if so persuaded . |
| 14 | Sammy Pike reappeared and joined them and Amiss edged towards them , keeping an eye out for unwelcome observers . |
| 15 | Instead , he meekly gave in to them and regularly attended church . |
| 16 | Cross-examined by John Griffith Williams QC , about why he did not stop for the children , he said that he was concerned not to hit them and instinctively moved away into the fast lane . |
| 17 | Another was the transformation of many such bodies , already heavily subsidized from public funds , into de facto agencies of the state , which financed them and indirectly determined their policy . |
| 18 | However , most boards tended to extract material when it suited them and rarely adhered to the time-scale or suggestions for different kinds of activity . |
| 19 | Suddenly it saw them and also stopped . |
| 20 | She continued to exhibit most of her work with them and also held frequent one-woman shows at the Lefevre Gallery from 1930 onwards . |
| 21 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 22 | Several other light buoys have been extinguished after boats tied up to them and accidentally damaged their cables . |
| 23 | After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character . |
| 24 | The initial setting up could be carried out by them and then circularised to the nearest branches some time before September in order for the most capable branch to make an offer for the franchise . |
| 25 | They both glanced behind them and then moved into the coloured shadows of the necromancer 's storeroom . |
| 26 | They are rubbed with salt to dry cure them and then coated with a mixture of spices , including juniper , and molasses , which is mainly responsible for the black appearance of the ham . |
| 27 | The shopkeeper slammed the door behind them and quickly pulled down a blind with the word CLOSED on it . |
| 28 | The show was flexible and he could slot his best troupes in and out , thus ensuring a regular wage for them and constantly rehearsed lines for him , all ready at a moment 's notice to go to South Africa , the continent or the best halls in London . |
| 29 | Despite her criticism of their dancing they knew she cared for them and always stepped in in any family crisis : |
| 30 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |