Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and say like say it takes absolutely ages to clean the dishes and pots you know , but like you say it was erm chili con carne , erm tuna and celery pie , what else was there on ? |
| 2 | ‘ Paula Grey has also disappeared you said earlier . |
| 3 | Apart from the music , that has really helped us to stay together . |
| 4 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 5 | The software may be wonderful but if the dealer does n't know how to make it work properly how is he going to train your staff and provide support for them ? |
| 6 | Having resolved never to let it happen again , she aims to provide not only for her retirement but for her daughter Gemma , aged ten , who with luck will be well settled into her career by the time Margaret 's DOUBLE PAYOUT policy matures . |
| 7 | Erm .. you know you should 've nipped that in the bud straight away rather than saying yeah we 'll put it in the post , we can do that , you should 've just said you know well I 'll bring it all along and gone from there . |
| 8 | If you put your finger up her bum while she was coming , she did n't pretend to object just to stop you running away with the idea that she was the kind of woman who would n't object if you put your finger up her bum while she was coming . |
| 9 | Yeah , so you 'd be if you 're making records you 'd better made it count early on . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps , I 'd better run you round there , sir . ’ |
| 11 | During the night after The Best Years of Our Lives scooped the Oscars , she came downstairs to find him sitting alone , with an award in each hand , sobbing . |
| 12 | As her body confirmed what he 'd already guessed she had neither the will nor wit to attempt to deny it any more . |
| 13 | It was only towards herself that she 'd ever seen him act meanly . |
| 14 | More involved vividly so , so again I think this punctuation is done deliberately to make it merge continuously |
| 15 | And I have smacked him really hard when he 'd nearly had me crying right ? |
| 16 | If I speak loudly does it flash even more ? |
| 17 | But she does n't I do n't think she goes now . |
| 18 | Fortunately my next door neighbour came round to tell me to stay indoors . |
| 19 | That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke . |
| 20 | Staring up at him , her stomach in knots , she thought she 'd never seen him look so frighteningly distant and patrician … |
| 21 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 22 | It , do it now while you 're young , while you 've got your strength , because there will come days when you look around and you think well I just wish I could do that again , and that 's the way we 're made , and that 's the way it will always be in this system of things , but there 's lots of little things that we , you and I , can work on to help us to stay spiritually alert , vigilant and awake . |
| 23 | It seems to have been Charles ' policy to broaden the education and leadership of his sons , and at the same time not to allow them to become too entrenched in their own subkingdoms . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember once seeing them talking together . |
| 25 | Whether you are moving to another part of the country or going abroad let us know as soon as possible so that we can publicise details of your property to maximum effect . |
| 26 | X and Y , discovering that Z intended to commit a burglary in A's house , arranged together to persuade him to steal therefrom certain articles for them . |
| 27 | They were once so poverty-stricken they were known through the valley of the Tees as people who ‘ christened calves , hoppled lops and knee-banded spiders ’ That meant they could afford so few cattle that each one had a name ( a tradition perpetuated by Hannah. ) , and lops ( lice ) and spiders had their legs tied together to prevent them running away |
| 28 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
| 29 | The Tories proposed the idea of allowing schools to opt out to enable them to get away from ‘ loony left'authorities . |
| 30 | If you were not contacted please let me know so that it never happens again . |