Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in 1986 I moved down to London , played keyboards with a cabaret group and worked on my second book . ’ |
| 2 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry I burst in on you like this . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In 1980 I moved back to LA from Mammoth Mountain ski resort and started my business , Stussy Surfboards . |
| 5 | I stood engrossed by this until I heard the rocking chair creak behind me , and at that I scampered up after them . |
| 6 | After that I went down to the kitchen and made a cheese sandwich for lunch and wished I 'd gone with Tremayne if only for the ride . |
| 7 | After that I went down on her and once she 'd come she did the same to me . |
| 8 | So here it 's something very like that I finished up with I 've if I 'd started off with that I would have finished up with twice what |
| 9 | I made a full statement and the contents of that I rely on for my defence . ’ |
| 10 | With that I turned back to my papers . |
| 11 | Er we did we were gon na raise a point on that the clash of the regulatory rules and the producery duty of under trust law , you know and I I think there you know there there was a comment that that I picked up with Professor Gower you know in his report which I think where he said the Government obviously have greater confidence than I in reliance on pristine trust law in relation to modern commercial developments such as unit trusts and occupational pension schemes , which its founding fathers never contemplated . |
| 12 | we went in the bank and I won a house on the bingo , you could of cracked me Julie said if we win we 'll go halfs I said right you are so we said right that was fine , there was four of the bleeding winners one pound fifty I ended up with |
| 13 | This I washed down with lager from a great stein as monumentally carved as the Parthenon . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's funny , ’ said Aj , ‘ because the last time I did a project like this I ended up with three tractors in the lake . ’ |
| 15 | As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo . |
| 16 | In 1972 I went off to university were I could find no handle on art history until I read Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists ? and discovered that research could replace airy-fairy ‘ lack of genius ’ answers with concrete ‘ lack of education ’ answers . |
| 17 | I had rooms in college that year , so instead of turning east along the High I carried on down Magpie Lane and round the corner into Merton Street , taking care over the cobbles , treacherous when wet . |
| 18 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 19 | A tricky wind was blowing on to the anchorage and what with snakes and the prospect of getting wet I lay off for lunch . |
| 20 | While in command of Venturous I missed out on a lot of the big drug operations through being in the north of Scotland , but I always enjoyed working as part of a team with the other cutters or any of the shore units . |
| 21 | Erm , popping out of your body is no different I think in from erm driving along in your car and er turning off and hopping out of the car . |
| 22 | about the hall , you see you , as I said to Kay , oh of course Kay has this you know on about this scouts |
| 23 | ‘ The quicker you get back to Paris the better , Nessy , for all concerned . ’ |
| 24 | I think , dear boy , the quicker you get back to your regiment the better . ’ |
| 25 | At 0400 she blew up with the loss of fifty-seven of the precious tanks and ten of the even more precious Hurricanes . |
| 26 | Hand outstretched she came up to where I was sitting . |
| 27 | This we take up in the next chapter . |
| 28 | Some even made me jump After this we got back on the coach and waited for the ferry . |
| 29 | After this we settled down to some serious patrolling and there followed a very strenuous tour of duty which lasted until the following November . |
| 30 | And now for something completely different we go over to our roving reporter in the North East of England who is interviewing a member of The Marauders . |