Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will help if , later on , you are unable to work or you are disabled as a result of the accident and claim Disablement Benefit . |
| 2 | My buttocks began to freeze and I was wondering whether to return when I heard the clop of the horse 's hooves and glimpsed Sir John riding vigorously by . |
| 3 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 4 | I knew too that that invitation was bound to come and I was dreading it . |
| 5 | I came here to work and you are stopping me doing that . ’ |
| 6 | Above all , is a fun place to work and I 'm looking forward to the challenges of the future . |
| 7 | They 're finding er as business becomes more competitive , targets are harder to meet and they 're finding they 're becoming more reluctant to stay out — to get away from the office , to take time off . |
| 8 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 9 | Not only were the funds difficult to find but it was becoming increasingly difficult to justify such expenditure on newspapers . |
| 10 | Sandy drew breath to scream but she was stopped halfway by Alina 's clamped-down hand , which filled her mouth and lungs with the rank taste of stagnant water . |
| 11 | Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ . |
| 12 | Chairman Andrew Wassell , who has been asked by the Takeover Panel to clarify his comments to the Guardian on Wednesday about the level of acceptances , said : ‘ It is much too soon to know but I am encouraged by the efforts we are making in winning support for our bid . ’ . |
| 13 | you are allowed to drink and you are allowed to splash out and you are |
| 14 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 15 | The captain bad defended solidly for hours , but now Harper got one to bounce and he was caught behind . |
| 16 | They were to choose and they were to live with the consequences of their choice . |
| 17 | So far our programme had kept well to schedule and we were feeling quite pleased with ourselves . |
| 18 | An informal producer is always difficult to define but it is used here to describe an owner or an employee of a small-scale enterprise comprising less than ten people , operating from an impermanent site , under an ill-defined registration and tax scheme . |
| 19 | There 's further to go and we 're gon na keep saying these things until we 're blue in the face , as well as |
| 20 | ‘ Er , well , I 've nowhere to go and it 's causing me something of a problem . ’ |
| 21 | Only days to go and you 're sweating ? |
| 22 | I ask you : just twenty-one years old , leading the Open , six holes to go and he 's going for the green ! |
| 23 | I 'm coming to see and you are leaving . |
| 24 | ( Errors in calculation have been made at times , but discovered only when the water began to flow and it was found that the levada went uphill . ) |
| 25 | ‘ It was a derby which City did not want to lose and we were left to make the running a lot of the time . |
| 26 | Our accountant has been asked to attend and it is hoped any questions you may have can be answered by him or federation officers . |
| 27 | We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night . |
| 28 | He did n't return to walk and he was found dead by his mother . |
| 29 | And she said but I 'm too frightened to walk and she was crying . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the inflow of complaints continues to grow and I am disturbed that we have not yet been able to make much of an inroad into the backlog of work . |