Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 2 | So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er |
| 3 | ‘ I might have expected you to hang on in there like a limpet , ’ Rourke said with a tight grimace . |
| 4 | ‘ First I want you to sit down over here and write down the names of all those who shared the stolen fruit with you . ’ |
| 5 | It 's usually cigs we run out of not petrol . |
| 6 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 7 | She let it float around in there , mostly unsecured . |
| 8 | Say that we want it set up in here with a photograph and that wants to be on the thing outsi |
| 9 | The Shah had Amir Aslan Afshar find among the Iranians in Morocco some Iranian currency for those who were returning home-they went back with more than $50,000 . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't really know what went on from there . |
| 11 | ‘ Come on , Terry , just mend it and let me get out of here . ’ |
| 12 | But let me take over from here . |
| 13 | But he says I gets on like quite well with Peter and |
| 14 | ‘ I hope that no one has seen you hanging about round here . ’ |
| 15 | This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed ! |
| 16 | Let it come out of there . |
| 17 | ‘ Let us get out of here before you deafen me , ’ he suggested . |
| 18 | Oh well you mean you rushed back in again did you ? |
| 19 | ‘ Glad to see you got out of there in one piece , Mrs Markby . ‘ |
| 20 | I ca n't bear to see you lolling about in here when it 's so glorious outside ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 22 | Her mother had told her to bring back at least one load before it got dark , and it would be much more fun if I went with her . |
| 23 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 24 | This might enable them to hold on to around 100 of their present 270 seats . |
| 25 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 26 | Ken Clarke was my minister of roads and I remember him coming back on more than one occasion with steam coming out of his ears . |
| 27 | He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met . |
| 28 | This would enable it to take over from more polluting plant , and ensure the expansion of electricity exports to England , on which the Scottish power industry depends . |
| 29 | Fortunately I had heavy duty minders in the form of my sister , Karen , mum and aunt , who were able to keep the kids in line while I translated the menu and discovered it came down to largely burgers , chicken , steaks and ‘ flipper friendly ’ fish . |
| 30 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |