Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , I only give her half a one as well . |
| 2 | I really do n't like driving , I just think its such a lot of work involved in it |
| 3 | But I never knew what all the other stars meant , just that one constellation . |
| 4 | He agreed with the head 's account of Balbinder 's lack of concentration , which obviously worried them both a great deal . |
| 5 | She silently called him all the names she could think of , then repeated the choicer ones for good measure , as she sluiced her face in cold water . |
| 6 | They fucking give it all the verbal and |
| 7 | I ran home from school in the Fifties and I would be crying because they really sold us all the fear of a nuclear explosion . |
| 8 | they bloody do it all the time ! |
| 9 | It only took me half a day to decide that I wanted the job . |
| 10 | But it only took me half an hour to get to Blefuscu . |
| 11 | Erm , and it 's quite an early start so it 's , it just makes it such a late night to for eating by the time you 've come out the cinema it 's erm |
| 12 | She says before you were aware of it but until it happens , it really gives you such a jolt . |
| 13 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |