Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better let him tell you about it , ’ Robins advised . |
| 2 | Oh well she 's obviously decided she likes it . |
| 3 | I do n't know why he 's suddenly decided he wants me off the team … ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 5 | The director , Peter Wood , made Orton — who had personally requested him to direct it — do the rewrites . |
| 6 | He was so touched he felt he must go immediately to find her , however angry she and her family might be with him . |
| 7 | ‘ Long gone I told you . ’ |
| 8 | I was so offended I asked him to leave me alone . |
| 9 | The exception is a Scottish pig farmer who stands uneasily next to the carcass of Jamie , a pig he reluctantly slaughtered and to which he was so attached he credited it with the IQ of a three-year-old child . |
| 10 | I 'd only suggested it to distract her . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , the golem is already working , then Haberup ( who may not this time be in a position to claim the patent rights ) has presumably done something to annoy it , and in this case ( 10 ) may be used in the sense of an answer to the question : ( 11 ) what did Haberup do to his golem ? |
| 12 | You see , I 've just realised I love you , too . |
| 13 | The fourth section of the screen was scanning a wrecked enemy orbital battle station that was tumbling slowly end over end , locked together with the ruptured Imperial cruiser which had finally rammed it to neutralise it . |
| 14 | a voice came er , from the , the back of beyond and Keith said , oh he said Sheila has just reminded me to tell you that it was my idea . |
| 15 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |
| 16 | The C B one says I 've only just let you have it ! |
| 17 | And then Ida 's rung to say that er our buyers have just rung him to say they 've a , got the cash , agreed and its all sorted out . |
| 18 | A vice is a bad habit or some kind of strange temperament in a horse or pony not normally expected which renders it — dangerous , or less useful or liable to decline in health . |
| 19 | Joan 's just said she thinks she knows someone that 's in core lectures that comes up from our way . |
| 20 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 21 | ‘ I know he 's right — I just needed someone to tell me , ’ says Margaret . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've just hired someone to help you with the children , and I 've already laid on a cleaning lady . ’ |
| 23 | A lot of the labs are finding physical phenomena that are already well known , so if you 're just validating facts that are already known you know they 're wrong because your answers do n't tally with the answers in the textbook . |
| 24 | He had already asked her to marry him . |
| 25 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 26 | My boyfriend has just asked me to marry him and we are just about to break the good news to our families . |
| 27 | Nurse Willow had already warned her to put it in the crib . ’ |
| 28 | The backs of pews were generally panelled which makes them super for panelling a whole room if you can get the quantity , given a bit of designing skill and reworking . |
| 29 | Oh yes , I 've never ever heard them speak you know , to him as though he 's a baby . |
| 30 | Jason tells me you 've often made careless mistakes in your work , and that you 've always resented him correcting you , ’ Mike enquired , and Kate knew from the way he spoke that he too blamed her for the trouble . |