Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they enter lakes , their sensitivity to the slightest movement in the water enables them to swim straight through into the feeder rivers . |
| 2 | But you 've always been able to make me behave completely out of character . ’ |
| 3 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 4 | ‘ Can I build right up to my boundary ? ’ |
| 5 | But no wh what I 'm , when I said borne out later on I mean later on in the report |
| 6 | I mean just out of Heathrow and Gatwick I think traffic has dropped by about twenty per cent over the erm past two weeks , but that 's now beginning to pick up again . |
| 7 | By that I mean partially out of this area . |
| 8 | I rode home along with him : he never used to charge me nothing because I used to deliver these here up to the shops for him . |
| 9 | I got slowly out of bed . |
| 10 | With Jo I got right back to basics , and that meant starting with my own birth . |
| 11 | I got straight through to my brother at the number Ruth gave me , of the hospital in Carlisle . |
| 12 | Cross and sore , I got straight back on and trotted him into the fence again . |
| 13 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 14 | I skimped once back in ‘ thirty-four . |
| 15 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
| 16 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 17 | All that the passive avoidance training required was a set of simple , small 20 by 25 centimetre pens into which a couple of chicks could be placed ( in the US , they used quart-sized milk cartons ) — the set-up I described way back in Chapter 2 . |
| 18 | I think I smoke purely out of now , more than anything else . |
| 19 | I walk straight over to Maggie . |
| 20 | I walk right up to the end of the platform . |
| 21 | I do n't want to go near them , so I walk right up against the shops , sort of leaning right against the windows so they wo n't get me . |
| 22 | I drove slowly down to my office . |
| 23 | Nellie and I tiptoed quietly back down the aisle and out of the door . |
| 24 | I jump softly down into Richardson 's front garden . |
| 25 | From the tower I climbed carefully down to the causeway and walked amid screeching seabirds to the end of the island , where the foaming water was groaning and pounding dramatically into a wide gash in the rock , known as the Blow Hole . |
| 26 | When Gray and Mr Trelawney were helping the captain , I climbed quickly out of the stockade and ran into the trees . |
| 27 | It is on a vast scale though : Franz Schrader , the first great cartographer of these mountains , estimated that it would hold twenty million people ; modern guidebooks have cut this number churlishly , and for all I know realistically down to three million . |
| 28 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 29 | As I walked forlornly around on my own , I could hear fragments of different conversations wafting over the music : |
| 30 | I walked slowly back to the hotel . |