Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the dashboard in front of him the radio crackled and he picked it up . |
| 2 | he was in bed with her and she and no she pushed her husband and of course he turned over naturally , he were n't , he did n't know and she pushed him again and he tied them up there , took all their jewellery off of them |
| 3 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 4 | He had asked her what was happening and she told him as truthfully as possible . |
| 5 | Since just before I moved and it triggered it off . |
| 6 | Her hand trembled and she clamped it hard against her chest until the attack of nerves had subsided a little . |
| 7 | she likes plenty , you know , and er , she did take a course on baby minding and she passed everything like , she could baby mind |
| 8 | But whether he really was a s time served one or not I do n't know but he did it then . |
| 9 | She said , she did n't know but she getting somebody down here now ! |
| 10 | She was being strangled and I pulled him off . |
| 11 | Everyone says how well I 've done and nobody teases me now . |
| 12 | I put and I crossed it outside . |
| 13 | Well that was where the the Where Argyll and them came and they burnt it down . |
| 14 | What if Viola came and they turned her away ? |
| 15 | And they entertained us and then some carol singers came and we asked them in and they sang carols and the food was nice and everybody really was very happy and that was the start of our Christmas holiday . |
| 16 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 17 | He had dark eyes , thickly lashed and they regarded her steadily almost as if he knew her . |
| 18 | Maggie quietly told him all that Ana had said and he heard her through in silence . |
| 19 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 20 | very good I says but you tell her just to forget that will ya ? |
| 21 | Constance thought Ludovico the most romantic man she had ever seen but what intrigued her most were his luxuriantly long eye-lashes . |
| 22 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 23 | He two-putted and we hugged and I told him how proud I was . |
| 24 | Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Unless you keep on trying to develop your own personal work , your own personal style , trying to find out where your main sympathies lie and what subjects you really like to work with , you end up purely being a commercial photographer shooting pretty much the same thing year in year out . |
| 26 | where it has n't , the plane has n't , he said he can see and he tells you how |
| 27 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 28 | Look , if , if somebody charges you three hundred pound , and you say that 's too much and you complain and they knock it down to two fifty , but they say but we want you to pay fifty pounds on something else , extra , do you think the two fifty 's fair , eh ? |
| 29 | For one thing I learned to cope with it better and then , well , I started growing and nobody singled me out for ridicule any more . |
| 30 | This old fella had died and she took us there to choose what we wanted which was horrible . |