Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it switched on or you listening to something ? |
| 2 | You 're aware that at some stage they 'll need a wash , but you just leave them until they 've calmed down or you talk to them about it . |
| 3 | So it 's normally brought to us either by , the neighbours ringing in or somebody passing by saying they can hear screaming . |
| 4 | The BBC documentary that alerted people in Britain to the implication of the silicon chip ( Ed Goldwyn 's Now the Chips are Down that we mentioned in Chapter 1 ) ended with the alarming questions : |
| 5 | We took his four- poster bed down that he wanted taking down that he cherished for some peculiar reason , and then we moved all the other bits of furniture , and as we w were sort of getting most of the furniture out of the first bedroom he said Do n't forget the loft will you ? |
| 6 | The former is of interest only in that she happens to be married to the gorgeous Richard Gere , who not only has ten times her talent but ten times her looks ( do people really find that hideous mole of hers attractive ? ) . |
| 7 | Isobel took it , and he drew her down so she sat on the silk rug at his feet , on a pattern of birds and flowers , of blues and scarlets and browns . |
| 8 | It seems everything I get in here , Gateways I 've got ta get some fish paste cos I do n't know what I 've got and what I have n't that 's it in in Cos I wan na defrost mine . |
| 9 | Chief Inspector of CID took charge and charged them all and then diplomacy came in and they went to court , discharged , back on the ship , and away . |
| 10 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 11 | But er to their credit er they got the contractors in and they commenced by putting up new pillars and new roofing structures and it took them about twelve months I think to actually build a new machine shop . |
| 12 | If it 's diagnosed as erm leaving treatment there 's a variety of splints that frames that you lie the baby on , strap them in and they remain in that position with their legs |
| 13 | But then a major collapse set in and they slumped to 132–7 before . |
| 14 | Because the rain blew in gusts , the doors were usually closed and the glass clouded and wept , and the world closed in and nothing existed at all except a diseased crew , buffeted and windswept , butting their way through the void . |
| 15 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 16 | I went into one house and er you so I came in and I got to about sort of I do n't know , roughly there I think it was and she said , do you have any objection to cats ? |
| 17 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 18 | We had to pay , I did my arm in and I had to damn well pay |
| 19 | Well I knew someone in and I thought to myself I , perhaps he might lend me a hand ? |
| 20 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
| 21 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 22 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 23 | Yeah as soon as they start school write in and you apply for him , when does he go to school ? |
| 24 | So even if they were n't in and you to knock on the door , the burglar alarm would stop you ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's just that he was passing the house as I came in and he looked at me really strangely . |
| 26 | Hill loathed the idea of betting shops , which were legalized in 1960 , but rivals moved in and he followed in 1966 . |
| 27 | He , he , well it was a council house when he moved in and he come to me what 'd be , ten , twelve years since he says , I 've chance to buy that house he says , they want fifteen thousand he says what do you think ? |
| 28 | I this morning , I was telling you , he come in and he says to her , how come you 're still awake ? |
| 29 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 30 | He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it . |