Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there . |
| 2 | We knew they had to go so we messed around with it . |
| 3 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 4 | At the age of sixteen , cos there was hardly anybody else at the place where I lived so it went down to sixteen year olds . |
| 5 | All the doors were locked and bolted so I climbed out through the kitchen window and dropped into a bed of lavender . |
| 6 | He got lost in Istanbul and I could n't wait so I went on without him . ’ |
| 7 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 8 | As the train drew near she looked out for Rough Stones , the house up on the hillside where they had made their first home ; but it was night , and all she saw was a glimmer that could as well have been a shepherd 's lantern . |
| 9 | Has n't he passed on by now ? ’ said Florrie , craning over her shoulder . |
| 10 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 11 | HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant . |
| 12 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 14 | Ms K Brummitt from Birmingham is after a cheat for Dragon Ninja and wants to know how you get out of the factory in Robocop . |
| 15 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 16 | Halvard — Perhaps you could let us know how he gets on in the tour games . |
| 17 | She said she does n't know how I put up wie ye . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her |
| 19 | We simply do not know how it fits in to the system of sociolinguistic variation and stratification in the city as a whole . |
| 20 | Do let me know how you get on with her . |
| 21 | ‘ And Monks will never know how you found out about him ? ’ she asked . |
| 22 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 23 | at does anybody know how she went on at her dance New Year 's Eve ? |
| 24 | I do n't know how she put up with it but she said she felt obligated . |
| 25 | I 've never seen , there 's only one captain in my class but I do n't know how she acts out outside school . |
| 26 | They say when you go on to the Stock Market you should be worried because you can lose your strength . |
| 27 | Do you know when we came back from |
| 28 | Do you know when I went out to the maths thing I was waiting for , I was there and I was heard about these forgotten a calculator ! |
| 29 | So when you do n't know when you go back in then ? |
| 30 | I do n't know why they put up with him , I really do n't . ’ |