Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm In principle it should be possible to be able to speak into a microphone , or to write on a pad , with a pencil , and the computer would be connected to the microphone or the pad and would take in and interpret what you 've done , without having to learn this rather clumsy method of putting things in one letter at a time . |
| 2 | People keep coming in and telling me I 'm doing wonderfully — but where 's the baby ? |
| 3 | But I think tomorrow I 'm gon na take it in and tell her I ca n't do it . |
| 4 | Well just go in and tell her you 'd like to enquire about your claim . |
| 5 | ‘ Better still , ’ Anya orders , ‘ call in and tell them you 're on an all-day job out of town . |
| 6 | They all come in and tell us we 're the busiest and I say well if we 're the busiest , God help those that 're the quietest . |
| 7 | Perhaps they turned up outside , looked in and saw nobody they knew and went away again . |
| 8 | Martin came in and told me I was supposed to be upstairs , Steve was has gone into where I was so |
| 9 | One day , the Head of Sixth Form — a teacher called Don Palmer — came in and asked what we were doing . |
| 10 | Lanre Oke , defending , said Sandiford , 29 , was in the robing room at Southend Crown Court when Laurence Marshall came in and asked what he was doing . |
| 11 | The Commander 's gay as a grasshopper , old Dass 's son walks in and tells them they make him sick to the teeth . |
| 12 | Fear that I have only dreamed of moving forward , that when I go in and face it I will see that it is a mistake , not possible , uninteresting . |
| 13 | If , however , Gavin had stomped in and told her she was a piece of shit , would the audience with the Goddess Of Tedium have lasted for more than one sentence ? |
| 14 | Let's have a look in and see what you 've done to the poor old thing . |
| 15 | You get some lemonade with cyanide in it and some Coke with cyanide in and see what she drinks . |
| 16 | But , firms are beginning to open up and give us an opportunity actually to take youngsters in and see what it 's all about . |
| 17 | I 'll call in and see what he wanted before I go , ’ I lied . |
| 18 | I mean it 's an ideal job you 'd be able to fit a round in and do what you want to do . |
| 19 | I said these daft buggers that come in and do it it 's up to them . |
| 20 | At 10.30 the men can stand down and do what they like — study , read , watch television — until midnight when , if all is quiet , they turn in . |
| 21 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 22 | Groups of men had been working ceaselessly since the battle to tear them down and salvage what they could of their contents . |
| 23 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |
| 24 | ‘ They were n't stopping , so I just took the mood down and told them I never knew any of them back in the days of groups like Dynamic 3 . |
| 25 | In that moment , she almost broke down and told him she loved him desperately , for she could see , finally , that all her pretences in Thailand of his capacity for emotion had been just that : pretences . |
| 26 | ‘ Go down and tell him I 'm busy . ’ |
| 27 | A good policeman will sit you down and tell it you his way . |
| 28 | Well I used the word to mo er in a report I was writing years ago it was ten years ago and I knew what I meant but I had n't sat down and defined what I meant , perhaps I should have done . |
| 29 | We got our heads right round it , whereas before , like , half the time we was n't even bothered what was recorded or how it was done , it was always bang , get a groove , put it down and see what we can do with it later . ’ |
| 30 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |