Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I was looking for somewhere he does n't . |
| 2 | We could can prime them up on what to say and types of things to talk about so they do n't get moaned down or something ! |
| 3 | With this it dawned on me what they were talking about so I became more attentive . |
| 4 | No one about so she went in . |
| 5 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |
| 6 | Just jot the other people 's names down and then obviously when they 've been they 've said their piece just strike their name through so you do n't go and . |
| 7 | If you hang about after 10pm they come over and say ‘ If you lot ai n't out of here in five minutes , you 're nicked , the lot of you . ’ |
| 8 | To put members ‘ in the picture ’ about just what goes on at Potters Bar the tour extended to the membership department , the various offices and even the accounts department . |
| 9 | You see I mean it it did occur to me that er erm on on the three occasions that we 've done this now , it always turns out to be er me involved in about just you know either playing the piano or something else in just about everything . |
| 10 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 11 | To begin with there was a pause at the door , but a pause of perhaps I do n't know , one or two seconds at the most . |
| 12 | I was offered a cleaning job that I did n't much like the look of so I left quietly before the final curtain . |
| 13 | She was leaning over talking to him and saying something sort of like I 've never been so embarrassed in my life ! |
| 14 | no sort of well they do n't do anything do they ? |
| 15 | And if we were n't , if we had n't hav been , I mean that 's probably one of the problems of today I do n't know . |
| 16 | Of late they have simply become too predictable when seeking the back of the net . |
| 17 | For once she had n't meant to be provocative , but Fen swore explosively and rage such as she had never seen filled his dark eyes . |
| 18 | For once she did n't follow his building . |
| 19 | Her thoughts were sad and for once she did n't try to correct their melancholic turn . |
| 20 | It would prove something to both Luke and herself if for once he did n't find her waiting for him when he came . |
| 21 | He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason . |
| 22 | For once I knew where to get at him and this time I was going to have the matter out with him . |
| 23 | For once I listened carefully , and I understood . |
| 24 | For once I did n't take my beloved camera with me to record the state of the line , for the simple reason that it results in very slow progress , and that is hardly wise near the shortest day of the year . |
| 25 | He looks so miserable that for once I do n't kick Heather on the way back to my desk . |
| 26 | For once it does n't treat the audience as idiots . |
| 27 | For once it decided not to have cystitis and gushed out like the Victoria Falls funnelled through a hose pipe . |
| 28 | The Collector had expected that the attack would begin with the howling warcry he had come to dread , but for once it did not ; out of the thin ground mist that lingered in a slight dip in between the churchyard wall and the ruins of the Cutcherry the shapes of men began to appear . |
| 29 | Speaking from the society 's headquarters in Edinburgh , superintendent Ron Grant — a former shepherd — summed the situation up : ‘ It 's been one of the worst winters in the west Highlands for many years and for once it 's not been snow but rather rain which has caused the problems . |
| 30 | So we got behind So I said well we 'll tr I 'll try and get caught up sort of , in the new year you know , get them a bit . |