Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 2 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 3 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |
| 4 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 5 | Did George suggest you got me mixed up in all this ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm getting them sorted out with Roy |
| 7 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 8 | You can have yours checked out for free on Sunday at Halfords in Durham , in a session organised by Halfords and What Car ? magazine . |
| 9 | Is your memory completely addled , or am I caught up in the middle of a prize piece of double-dealing ? ’ |
| 10 | I think that had I grown up with my parents only twenty years before , I would not now believe this . |
| 11 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 12 | We 're gon na get em trained up in the garages before we actually launch , but they are able now to say they are approved installers so they will be getting all the stuff , everything in relation to it , I 've given em a list of the people involved in Nottinghamshire and it 's the launch is on the seventh March at West Bridgford , and basically the system is ready and up and running , thank the Lord after hard work by er Keith and us all at various times , but it 's been mainly down to Keith . |
| 13 | Had I gone on with this research at the depth which I had in view I would undoubtedly have used a far more informal interview and , having chosen possible points of difference , I would have introduced these in the interviews and let the informants develop the themes themselves . |
| 14 | I want to take this tape out really when I gone out to Asda . |
| 15 | How long had I gone off into my dream , my panic ? |
| 16 | I said , well , what I 'm ringing about is am I allowed back in there or am I barred ? |
| 17 | The bloke has lost all respect from me — and fuck knows have I stood up for him in the past . |
| 18 | My social education would have advanced rapidly too , had I lived in with the school . |
| 19 | Why did you say I beaten up by Lisa ? |
| 20 | I know , I was I went up for some chips at the top |
| 21 | Now apparently what happened is I went up to him and said look I might have to do something with it . |
| 22 | Now interesting because erm one of the things I did before Christmas was I went out to and it I think it 's my memory it 's sixty percent of Scotland is , is , gets its power from nuclear power |
| 23 | Well I 'm I went back in and it 's come out gleaming . |
| 24 | allusion to the legend of Sweeney Todd , ‘ the demon barber of Fleet Street ’ who was supposed to cut his customer 's throats , and then have them made up into meat pies . |
| 25 | I let my wife buy Harris and Cheviot lengths for winter when she 's in London , but I never allow her to have them made up for herself . |
| 26 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 27 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 28 | But none of them turned up to today so |
| 29 | The names were vaguely familiar ; he fancied he had seen them written up in gold lettering upon an office window in Stepney . |
| 30 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |