Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 've got to solve it or she 'll just re-route me to some tedious filing-clerk 's job !
2 He tried re-dialling two or three times , but either it was a long conversation or he could n't time it right to slip in between calls .
3 Right , erm , yes , it 's for adults I think , and it 's such things as Leonard Cheshire Homes , er , and I ca n't thing of any other ,
4 I 've already put in our comments in writing on this to Chris and I 'll just sort of draw some of them save me repeating them .
5 Where these key indicators illustrate the most favourable conditions er we are going to base our main advertising campaign and I 'll now hand you over to my colleague .
6 ‘ I 'll suck your dick and I wo n't stop/Till everything inside rises to the top I 'll swallow every ounce of that sticky cum/Cause that 's how a dick-suck should be done/Then your cum goes down my throat/And I 'm loving every bit and refuse to choke/No other girls will do the things I do/Now tell me/Is the pussy still good to you ? ’
7 So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then .
8 And you can still sort of ma make it elevated up this really nice and
9 books , and you could n't sort of swop the
10 Since it was Dane 's name on the hoardings which had sold out the theatre on opening night and for several weeks to come , Josh 's kindness brought a painful lump to her throat , and she could only gaze at him in mute gratitude .
11 and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er
12 She can not mother her child and she can not mother her mother ; everything she did inclined towards death .
13 Could we just go on to twenty one and we might just sort of stop this part of the lesson there .
14 I mean if it 's nice and we 'll either garden
15 And we should just sort of say what is necessary to find out and everybody gets a few telephone numbers or telephone calls check out addresses find out about new ones , get in contact with the district council erm what is in the pipeline .
16 You ca n't hear a thing , deaf as the , deaf as a post , and does n't wear any thing , I feel it 's very one side conversation because he , he says all the talking and they ca n't muck in almost unbearable , cos she likes to talk a lot to and she could n't get a word in because
17 Well they want , they want divorce and they 'd rather custody of the children and if they 'll some but she can allow them to take the children away cos the well the media coverage , they 've obviously got they have a law .
18 But I ca n't Nana , the river too high just now . ’
19 Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag .
20 An' I wo n't git the chance , if we 've got half the fuckin' NYPD an' the CBS Newsnight cameras lookin' on . ’
21 ‘ A major misconception is to treat IT as a department but you ca n't hive it off , it has to pervade an organisation and be built into marketing , sales , finance , production and so on . ’
22 But you ca n't sort of turn round to Hannah and say Hannah , you 've got B O !
23 understand the meaning behind the sentence but you could n't word for word .
24 So it 's not engaged , but you can still camp on to their handset , basically the computer , tell them when it 's next used .
25 But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy .
26 There obviously are n't more than thirty one days in a month but we 'll just practice then counting from twenty now and we 'll stop at thirty nine
27 Collectivism would eventually lead to totalitarianism — fascism and communism are collectivist ideologies — but it would also surface in the bureaucratic thinking of Western governments and multinational corporations .
28 She would never mock it , he was certain of that , and he could not believe that she would be shocked , because she was far too experienced and sensible to waste energy on such a useless emotion ; but it would probably distress her , and she had enough distress to absorb without his adding to it .
29 As Pollitt notes ( 1986a , p. 165 ) ‘ a government can force its employees to go through the motions , but it can not mandate enthusiasm and commitment ’ .
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