Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're trying to er knock or they were trying to knock News at Ten on the head . |
| 2 | This will help if , later on , you are unable to work or you are disabled as a result of the accident and claim Disablement Benefit . |
| 3 | The relevant schools have been approached and it is intended to co-ordinate engineering , education and enforcement activities . |
| 4 | and we looked on it more as a party and a family gathering and showing everybody else that we were now committed and we 're going to spend the rest of our lives together . |
| 5 | But we 're dealing with a devil we do n't know and we 're paying the devil more than his due . |
| 6 | But there 's something she does know and she 's keepin' it to herself . |
| 7 | My buttocks began to freeze and I was wondering whether to return when I heard the clop of the horse 's hooves and glimpsed Sir John riding vigorously by . |
| 8 | It keeps occurring and it 's called ‘ morphic resonance ’ ; something is simply in the air and more than one person picks it up . |
| 9 | After the burning of the forest , pioneer trees appear and it is burnt again , and again the following year . |
| 10 | Sales plummetted and he was forced to quit . |
| 11 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 12 | I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it . |
| 13 | This takes about six weeks — just as you 're about to hand in your notice , it suddenly clicks and they are doing it themselves without you having to say anything . |
| 14 | I came here to work and you are stopping me doing that . ’ |
| 15 | Above all , is a fun place to work and I 'm looking forward to the challenges of the future . |
| 16 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 17 | The geology of the basin is varied and it is dominated by the massive Golden Lane carbonate platform . |
| 18 | In February 1991 E. was bruised and it was thought to be a non-accidental injury . |
| 19 | They 're finding er as business becomes more competitive , targets are harder to meet and they 're finding they 're becoming more reluctant to stay out — to get away from the office , to take time off . |
| 20 | Malpass 's eyes had misted and I was talking just to remind him I was there . |
| 21 | She 's been their senior presenter for ten years now , handling everything from live interviews to those awful moments when a filmed report is suddenly dropped and she is left to fill time with cheerily improvised observations — ‘ that 's when I really earn my money . ’ |
| 22 | He should have gone outside , grabbed the keys of the bike and taken off , but instead he was trapped and she was following him , her footsteps tentative on the stairs . |
| 23 | Maybe summat special is happening and they 're rushing to get there , cos they look real excited and busy and hurrying to get some place . |
| 24 | And all the way through the film these things were happening and you 're waiting for the thrilling resolution . |
| 25 | At long last it was happening and I was receiving confirmation that the exotic and rare species , The Homosexual , existed somewhere else other than in my imagination . |
| 26 | When one is young and brash — and I think I was brash — one is inclined to brush people aside because you know what you want and you are determined to get it , whereas when one has seen some of the problems of the world , I think one is probably more tolerant . |
| 27 | ‘ I could ring for a taxi , ’ she suggested , when the final guests had departed and she was standing with her host and hostess on the drive . |
| 28 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 29 | Whilst these notes repeat much of the material covered in the " Statements and Functions " section , additional information has been added and they are presented in a more readable order . |
| 30 | Their skin burned , their features dissolved and they were left faceless . |