Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 but you 've got a very nice way of actually listening and you 'll actually learn far more about people by listening than actually talking so erm I found that quite picked up and pinpoint areas contact er eye contact , that was good , stayed in control , not too pushy yeah .
2 I want that firmly understood . ’
3 Q I recently became the owner of a pond which I planted and then left for a few weeks before I put the fish in .
4 ‘ But I thought that only referred to KITS ! ’
5 then I fell and bloody stretched my groin !
6 I think that just slowed down , I think it was all done in about thirty seconds , they just slowed it down .
7 I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel .
8 This was by far the most fertile area I had as yet seen in the Danakil country , and it was dotted with small villages of mat-covered huts .
9 But he was alright you know what I mean with the , I never never really knew want , there were lots of things that I wanted and never got of course but I never really , I could never say I wanted , and I never went hungry , not even at any time , you know .
10 Rijkaard and Van Basten had travelled to Holland but Milan did not want them to play and both pulled out of the squad , Rijkaard with flu , Van Basten claiming he was tired after his trip to Tokyo for the World Club Championship .
11 Then , against all her better instincts , she stopped and slowly turned to look back down Lyra Street .
12 And she also felt slightly nervous lest the large house should suddenly disgorge many other hidden residents , for what would she do if suddenly confronted , at one go , with Amelia , Magnus , Gabriel , and Annunciata , and all their varying wives and husbands ?
13 She gulped and almost choked .
14 How many courses or conferences have you attended or even seen advertised that mention children in their titles ?
15 As I watched she turned and almost floated on light footsteps into the hall then through the lounge door .
16 At the end she turned and almost trotted back to her stall , jumping quite freely over the gutter .
17 Er but I 've had it just grilled , you know and always done in butter .
18 And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible .
19 She scowled and almost decided not to open it .
20 She swallowed and almost pleaded , ‘ You would n't seriously take that money away from me ? ’
21 Catching his eye again , she blinked and quickly looked away .
22 Well then her mother died last Feb. with some awful cancer and her daughter had been beside her when she died and probably learnt then about the secret which must have burdened her poor mother 's life for so many years .
23 ‘ I want to see you washed and almost dried by the time I come down .
24 When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again .
25 Before departing , we ate and then headed off to the Crucible Theatre for the evening .
26 Er , we know that systematically seduced a lot of his female patients .
27 The details of the patterns depend on the magnitude of the advantage accruing to defectors ( the value of b ) , but a wide range of values leads to chaotic patterns , whose nature is almost always independent of the initial proportions of C and D. We believe that deterministically generated spatial structure within populations may often be crucial for the evolution of cooperation , whether it be among molecules , cells or organisms .
28 We felt that really needed to be considerably punchier to attract attention and we would have thought that it really needed to be ‘ New Launch gets Canbord council market a tough new policy ’ .
29 We have so far met several examples of what the reader would probably regard as a " function " , but we have as yet given no definition , formal or otherwise , of the concept .
30 Frederica drank a lot of wine and said nothing , but watched everyone in turn , charged with unsatisfied curiosity as they lay and lazily tossed ideas between them .
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