Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm going to go inside and get myself a drink , ’ he announced , ‘ and then we are going to go over to the far field where there 's a modicum of peace and we are going to look at these plans together , OK ? ’ |
| 2 | Do n't you love your grandmother enough to come downstairs and give her a little goodbye kiss ? ’ |
| 3 | Her aunt lives there and gave her a room , so as to avoid the strife here . |
| 4 | I woke feeling unwell and I decided to go downstairs and make myself a cup of tea . |
| 5 | When , a few hours later , Harriet got up to go downstairs and make herself a cup of tea , she was surprised to find Liza 's bedroom door open . |
| 6 | Similarly , deliberately walk slowly and set yourself a specific time period for a relaxing lunch-break . |
| 7 | All the more important that you should choose wisely and know what the cost of any anticipated repairs will be . |
| 8 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 9 | Spotting a stricken boat , they are amazed when a terrified young man ( Billy Zane ) swims towards them , climbs aboard and tells them a horrifying story about an attack of food poisoning . |
| 10 | He nodded politely and showed me the palm of a gloved hand . |
| 11 | Robyn snorted impatiently and threw him a look of disgust . |
| 12 | I 'm surprised I 've had so few reactions but its holiday time and I guess a lot of people have smiled anyway and remembered its the ‘ silly season ’ ! |
| 13 | Tony arrived home and poured himself a large whisky . |
| 14 | Jim , I 'd love to keep going here and ask you a whole lot more questions . |
| 15 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 16 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 17 | You 'd go inside and have what a hot ? |
| 18 | I 'll go below and fix us a drink . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , go away and get us the coffee , ’ said Milton . |
| 20 | I am not dying , no , I have suffered a terrible nightmare , but I am here , in my room , and the night must be far gone , it must be almost morning , I shall go downstairs and make myself a first pot of tea . |
| 21 | I 'll go downstairs and make you a hot drink . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm going to tuck you in , then go downstairs and make you a hot drink . ’ |
| 23 | After midnight neighbours go outside and wish everyone a Happy New Year . |
| 24 | I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . " |
| 25 | There 's this flower shop not far from the house , and I go there and buy summat every week . |
| 26 | I looked across and gave them a wave and wondered if they would still be alive next time I visited Breville . |
| 27 | He would come here and give you a good , price for everything you wanted to sell . " |
| 28 | Then she half rose from the desk , leaned across and gave me a dead fish handshake , and with a glazed stare directed somewhere over my left shoulder , she rattled out , all in one breath and with no punctuation , ‘ Thankyouverymuchforallyouhavedonegoodbye . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm my own man and that 's very important in these times , even if you have n't had the problems I 've had , and you have n't , because that 's perfectly obvious , you 're sitting there and asking me the questions . |
| 30 | He leaned forward and poured her a long cool glass of freshly squeezed orange juice . |