Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to make two of these sails for us to try and we later purchased a third from association funds . |
| 2 | Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points . |
| 3 | Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points . |
| 4 | ‘ The discourtesy shown to me , down to the last detail … was not expected and I profoundly resent it , ’ he wrote to his brother after a visit to the new Prime Minister at Chequers . |
| 5 | I wanted her to come and she never did . |
| 6 | He has often told friends he would like to write and he obviously has the creativity that could be adapted to another form of expression . |
| 7 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 8 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 9 | ‘ This case has certainly not been forgotten and we still want to hear from anyone with information . |
| 10 | Julie was co-director of an information technology firm she helped to establish and which now employs 25 people . |
| 11 | Besides , the sorts of holidays Rose and I usually go on would n't have been up-market enough for George . ’ |
| 12 | It was quite still for the breeze had dropped and he vaguely registered that the women seemed to have gone . |
| 13 | The video work at this school revealed to some teachers the gap between their perception of what is happening and what really happens in the classroom . |
| 14 | For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively . |
| 15 | She knew who to trust and who not to trust . |
| 16 | On having ideals , like as you grow older , I mean you 're quite an ancient person already , within the next ten years you 'll have to choose the sort of lifestyle you want and you really have to choose as well whether you 're going to involve other people in it for good or for |
| 17 | In consequence , many Members who put their names down will have only ill-formed ideas about what they want and it frequently happens that Bills presented are ill-prepared or misconceived . |
| 18 | But in terms of its being easier and cheaper to disband and its not carrying the same legal authority , it is not the same as marriage . |
| 19 | Cos the other day Dawn phoned and we never heard . |
| 20 | And yesterday the princess 's lower lip trembled and she nervously turned away as Sebastian sang the poignant opening lines of the 1989 hit , Right Here Waiting For You . |
| 21 | His hands trembled and he constantly looked to Louise for advice and support . |
| 22 | You know you 're allowed to go up to nine percent as you say and you just pay as many years as you like . |
| 23 | Spence , the 29-year-old Kent player , said : ‘ Some of the pin positions were difficult but all the greens are sloping and you just have to accept them . |
| 24 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 25 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 26 | Unfortunately the outstanding differences have not been resolved and we still have no date for talks . ’ |
| 27 | In taking this position , the bishops were also following the lead of Pope John Paul II who , on his visit to Ireland in 1979 had argued : ‘ Divorce , for whatever reason it is introduced , inevitably becomes easier and easier to obtain and it gradually comes to be accepted as a normal part of life ’ ( 1979 ) . |
| 28 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 29 | First , I was a gypsy and gypsies never forget and they never forgive . |
| 30 | Suppose your boss asks you for suggestions about how a particular problem could be solved and you immediately respond with some ideas . |