Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | But I mean it 's like Hugh , they said he had n't registered or something was n't it ? |
| 3 | This is not always easy because we often get caught up in activities without thinking about who is really supposed to benefit or who is actually ‘ calling the tune ’ . |
| 4 | David Smith a bookie says there 's money to be won and it 's just as well he managed to eat when he was a youngster … |
| 5 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 6 | ‘ People have been approached and we are just waiting to hear now when the contracts are signed and sealed , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 7 | Then she has been infantilised and she is no longer autonomous . |
| 8 | I knew you were committed and I was n't going to interrupt . ’ |
| 9 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 10 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 11 | More and more I do n't bother — she does n't know and there 's usually no-one else to see so what difference does it make ? |
| 12 | I do n't know , I do n't know and she 's still really madly in love with Dan or according to Paula . |
| 13 | The symptoms are generally worse the further you fly and they are more marked after eastward flights than those to the west . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not milling about , I 'm not lurking and I 'm not amassing , ’ Otley said vehemently as Nigel pleaded with him yet again . |
| 15 | A lot of Emo 's gags seem calculated to make you retch and he 's not averse to teasing his audience with routines based on taboo subjects like child abuse and necrophilia . |
| 16 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 17 | James Bond fantasies , you know , when things just appear and you 're just sophisticated and your hair 's in a flip and you look great and you get on your private jet . |
| 18 | So so basically , in a minute , have to sit down and write a list of who is going to come and who is not and what order . |
| 19 | On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber . |
| 20 | But we will hear more of this in years to come and it is yet another sign that church planting is on God 's agenda at this time for Britain , for Europe , and for every nation . |
| 21 | People were sitting the main point of the chair is is to enable you to write and it 's actually very satisfactory to write in , it 's just the right height . |
| 22 | ( The first dozen pages of one of Simenon 's novels , Maigret 's Pickpocket , just describe , for instance , Maigret riding a bus to work and one is simply gripped . ) |
| 23 | Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat . |
| 24 | erm , one of the er chaps that come to work and he 's always on Corby that 's what David told us |
| 25 | This is possible using RR or Rover SD1 solenoids but as a kit is not available a great deal of experimentation is required to get the system to work and it is virtually impossible to fit to rear door . |
| 26 | It 's evil and forbidden and I 'm not even thinking about it ! |
| 27 | When this happened , however , even the traditional features became more stereotyped because choreographers used only those which the audience could easily recognise and which were commonly seen and heard in a particular country . |
| 28 | Although there was an ‘ official ’ village community within which landowners , farmers and clergy were included and which was occasionally celebrated in traditional ( and public ) rituals and ceremonies , there was another community , a locally based working-class sub-culture , which excluded ‘ them ’ in authority . |
| 29 | Pick the details you want included and they 're automatically inserted in your document , along with the mailmerge codes . |
| 30 | Sometimes , the estate agent 's particulars are not very explicit about what is included and what is not , and in any event , sellers may change their minds , or may throw in certain items such as carpets and curtains in the course of the negotiations to settle a price . |