Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
| 2 | Eventually he paused to lead her along a side-track where the hanging vines reached out to cling about them . |
| 3 | But I thought we wanted to keep this a low profile bungalow and that 's pushing it up the same as the other one in Grey Lane went up . |
| 4 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 5 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 6 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether it was relevant or not but I would , I 'd ask how did you manage to finance these policies , if you 're taking one out every two or three years , you know , obviously increment in salary or something of that nature might be relevant so something that the person was conscious of , they were using their money to buy er s er savings plans . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a chance to understand why women are not making it up the professional or corporate ladder , ’ Ms Gompels added , ‘ which does seem to be a waste of such a valuable resource . ’ |