Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it . |
| 2 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 3 | No-one has ever seen said film ( except David Quantick ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Fair weather anglers , the lot of you , ’ I announced unctuously demanding immediate refreshment for my efforts . |
| 5 | And I do n't I 've only got one left . |
| 6 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 7 | Erm I do n't know I do n't yo I , I think possibly having that foot up on the stool was perhaps a mistake . |
| 8 | As I sit here typing this letter , the sky is black and it 's pouring with rain — real April showers . |
| 9 | I got up to get some water and went to the window . |
| 10 | I tend not to read long interviews with top celebs , as much to avoid discovering that they are dickheads as anything else , so I look for the news , gossip and reviews . |
| 11 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
| 12 | I tried never to throw any food away . |
| 13 | Suppose , well , I say not thinking one evening , I nearly missed the bus this morning , I had to run like billy-o , sure as fate Aunt Annie would say , think yourself lucky you can run . |
| 14 | I 'm in the process of trying to get someone to come in to do one evening girls ' assertiveness , you know which some of them said they 'd quite like to do . |
| 15 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |
| 16 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 17 | I 'd just met this medium — how could she have known this ? ’ |
| 18 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 19 | ‘ They said I 'd just got 50-60 years wear out of the knee in 15 years . ’ |
| 20 | erm and I 'd just got one comment that I like to make and er then the question . |
| 21 | I , I 'd just taken this thing |
| 22 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 23 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |
| 24 | And I 'd also had some suspicions . ’ |
| 25 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 26 | ‘ No time to say really — but we were just about off , and I was holding the books for Dad when he said , ‘ I 'd best get those papers for old Holroyd . ’ |
| 27 | Er well whe er when I first went to I 'd already lost two children and er the girls knew that I worked with the t last two children . |
| 28 | ‘ I felt I 'd already done Prime Suspect , ’ says Lynda , although she did supply the plot outline . |
| 29 | I 'd already done some modules in S3 and S4 , and two of them counted towards the general SVQ . |
| 30 | But I 'd already decided that journalism was the perfect career for me . |