Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he became too drunk or sleepy to go on he would put his head on her shoulder and go to sleep . |
| 2 | Well yes it is certainly fascinating to hear the views of , of members an and indeed it , it 's tempting to go on I think about or personal experience of floods , but this is not the time or the place I would suggest to do that erm strategic planning seems to me has been the venue for discussions with Southern Water Authority with the National Rivers Authority itself , we are the committee that tries to look many , many years ahead . |
| 3 | The whole chapter is ridiculous , for example when Alice asked to sit down she was told there was no room , by the characters already sitting there , yet there was plenty of room for everyone to move round the table several times before returning to their original places . |
| 4 | going to sit down it were n't they ? |
| 5 | As Allen turned to clamber down he spotted through a gap in the leaves a thin spiral of smoke not far off to the east . |
| 6 | No I have n't , no it 's , it 's er one thing I need to put in that one that due to wear to go in I can see those , that cream out there can you ? |
| 7 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 8 | Just as they were about to go down it , the door opened . |
| 9 | ‘ At least you do n't have to go down it again ! ’ |
| 10 | And I used to go down you used to see all the mams and kids going down the moors here , taking their dad 's tea , down in the fields , so they could have a bit of something and then finish as got dark . |
| 11 | And he would n't let me go at nine o'clock if he thought I had n't have been knackered and ready to fall down you know . |
| 12 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 13 | I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever . |
| 14 | Not that he had minded in the least , for if he had a daughter as rich as Gemma and a fellow like Tristan Gage were to come along he 'd take all the necessary steps himself to see that she could never be cheated . |
| 15 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 16 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 17 | Erm if you get to ask your mum to come in I 'll just ask her what 's what you 're doing next week . |
| 18 | Would you like to come in I could shut the door . |
| 19 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 20 | If , if he wants to come in he 's got to pay a deposit anyway . |
| 21 | Actually I was cos I I had the back door open and I thought I 'll just leave it and if he wants to come in he can and I poured him a a bit of a drink of milk and er , then I went in the kit , in the bathroom and the door was still open and then suddenly I thought God I wonder where he was ? |
| 22 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 23 | he said , and she used to come down he said she used to think I 've got another woman ! |
| 24 | Oh see you erm you have to write down I mean you have to write down Bonnie and pupils . |
| 25 | Regardless of the general press of humanity , a funeral procession was attempting to pass down it from the other end . |
| 26 | On the other hand , since she was trying to spell through she was probably simply putting together badly-remembered letters . |
| 27 | I tried a machine to express milk in the hospital but by the time the milk did start to come through she was really used to the bottle . |
| 28 | If Stuart feels it 's necessary for me to come off I will accept his decision . |
| 29 | They expect you to leap off you know , on bits of elastic ? |
| 30 | Erm it 's entirely up to you if you want to write up you can . |