Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew they had to go so we messed around with it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All the doors were locked and bolted so I climbed out through the kitchen window and dropped into a bed of lavender . |
| 4 | He got lost in Istanbul and I could n't wait so I went on without him . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's probably better , cos I mean normally I start back in January . |
| 8 | Yeah , but nothing was done so he came through to me |
| 9 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 10 | As it squeaked past he darted out of his hiding place and leapt on to it , squeezing himself amongst the bottles . |
| 11 | When it came closer I jumped out of the way but it cut the bottom of my trousers . |
| 12 | Denis made no acknowledgement but before turning away he looked up at the sky , now completely hidden in dark cloud . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you what happened once we get out of here . |
| 14 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 15 | It started to rain so I went down to Apsley House at the bottom right-hand corner of the park with the intention of having a look at the paintings there . |
| 16 | but I 'm most disgruntled the way Geoffrey 's getting on , he 's not had a single parents evening this year , you know normally you go back to school , you have one September , October which is always too soon |
| 17 | As he walked away he looked back at me , ‘ Better eat it , Scottish , ’ he said , with a serious look on his face . |
| 18 | Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London . |
| 19 | It vanished as the wide sweep of grey-blue sea fell beneath the rising ground behind the town , and as the bus trundled westward I looked out on a landscape of untroubled peace . |
| 20 | You know here we come down to very basic premise of communication |
| 21 | Anytime But I remember bloody you coming in on a Sunday morning sometimes you , bloody can hardly the bed ! |
| 22 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 23 | It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in . |
| 24 | He watched as Nina disappeared then he turned back to Rachel . |
| 25 | His hand moved to the triangle of fair curls between her thighs and as he caressed the glistening pink bud which was hidden there she cried out for his possession . |
| 26 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 27 | In a fog I crawled out of bed to pick up a blanket which had fallen on the floor , and as I did so I glanced through into the living room and made out , in the darkness , Changez Lying on his camp-bed watching me . |
| 28 | When she was finished there she hurried back to the kitchen where she washed herself at the sink . |
| 29 | Rachel stared at the ground and wished they 'd all go home , but when her father spoke again she looked up in surprise . |
| 30 | I do n't want otherwise you finish up with five separate er management procedures . |