Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes narrowed menacingly but he quickly checked himself and smiled . |
| 2 | A sound caused her to jump slightly and she half turned to see a figure silhouetted in the doorway . |
| 3 | Er I I 'm expecting to come here but she probably wo n't |
| 4 | A hole was blasted in the floor near Mr Redmond 's feet and part of his seat was ripped away but he only received minor leg injuries . |
| 5 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 6 | Links between the two companies have grown quickly and they recently exhibited together at Houston 's Offshore Technology Conference . |
| 7 | He came home and he just laid the table , very impressive . |
| 8 | A mixture of series and parallel , which you 've done before but you probably need a bit of revision . |
| 9 | And I think I had about , I do n't what I 've done really but I just , the following day I felt it in my , my groin , the left side of my groin down my leg and up my stomach . |
| 10 | One of them , Mr Bob Monkhouse , the entertainer , said : ‘ Nothing ever happens here and we never see the police unless our burglar alarm goes off unexpectedly . ’ |
| 11 | Now they may all look dirty to you but this one has been used less and it therefore has less . |
| 12 | I had a visitors ' visa , renewed annually but I simply forgot and let it go for two months . |
| 13 | But then you might feel that you 're going backwards but you still just modify your position to keep that gap there . |
| 14 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 15 | I 've just got it going again and I really have to make the effort . |
| 16 | They parted and Melinda married Philby briefly but this did not work either and she eventually returned to America . |
| 17 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |
| 18 | Now that is n't easy actually , because you know , the practitioner 's think they know best and they actually quite resent , you know , the young Policy Officer 's coming in and saying let's do it this way , shall we ? |
| 19 | Cos that was when Helen and Tommy 's erm wife left their clothes on there thinking it was staying there but it never , it came back . |
| 20 | ‘ Debbie was born there and we still have a place there , but not the same one that she grew up in . |
| 21 | Maggie began anxiously but he never even bothered to answer . |
| 22 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 23 | The footsteps went down , past the kitchen , into the shop ; she thought they might vanish altogether but they shortly returned , accompanied by a padding , clicking sound , paws on linoleum . |
| 24 | I have worked for the Health Service for twenty six years and plan to carry on doing so and I fully expect to finish my work in the Health Service where it 's still in Government hands . |
| 25 | It did n't take long and I only spotted one word with more than one syllable . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Police blocked farmers from coming inside and they just stood in front shouting and calling messages over a loud hailer . ’ |
| 27 | Mum could n't read anyway but she always seemed to know when Auntie Nellie wrote and Dad made it my job to hide these letters and give them to him when Mum was out of the way . |
| 28 | Just cruising away and it just like glides , and you glide you know like , like Papa 's Citroen type that kind of suspension . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't marry a man who hates me — ’ her voice wobbled dangerously but she quickly brought it back under control ‘ — who believes me to be a traitor , without a single question or … or … ’ |
| 30 | The Index will be updated regularly and we really do need to know who to send the updates to . |