Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We expect them to go home now and say , ‘ Mamma gim me lamb ’ . ’ |
| 2 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 3 | The people of Tiree were very kind , and I had to take tea with a family who had good English , and invited me to come right away and remain their guest while I stayed on the island . |
| 4 | I succeeded almost immediately and found a good alignment of moats ending at Gill 's Lap pine clump on Ashdown Forest , one of the marks noted by Tony Wedd . |
| 5 | ‘ I got as far as unpacking my summer wear … ! ! ’ |
| 6 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd better away and check Lucky Lady . ’ |
| 8 | I came home later and found Kelly shaken . |
| 9 | ‘ I look ahead sometimes and wonder what people will think of me when I 'm dead . |
| 10 | It turns out that fragments of each of my three files are dotted around , interleaved with each other and with fragments of old , dead files that I erased long ago and had forgotten . |
| 11 | I turned slowly away and felt the rush and zip of violently animated matter . |
| 12 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 13 | But , in essence , it is a journey on wheels into the realms of beauty and grandeur I know so well and love so much . |
| 14 | And secondly , in terms of Liz Liz is someone I know extremely well and have worked with in various functions and committees over the past . |
| 15 | So I stepped forward boldly and pulled the sheets away from what they concealed . |
| 16 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 17 | I knew far better than to turn my head , but I had the feeling my old builder stayed squatting by the roadside . |
| 18 | I turn away immediately and move on up the lane . |
| 19 | I go somewhere else and eat junk food and drink junk wine . |
| 20 | So if I go straight over and invite Simon to address us next , please . |
| 21 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 22 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 23 | I went upstairs uneasily and knocked on his door . |
| 24 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 25 | So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it . |
| 26 | I went straight upstairs and stood in the middle of my bedroom . |
| 27 | The house was sold off and I ended up inheriting 12,000 dollars , so I went straight out and bought an AG 440 Ampex professional four track machine and took it up to my father 's coffee plant , and every night when he left I would drive up and work on Stevie 's and my songs . |
| 28 | I went straight out and broke a window , I was that impressed … ’ |
| 29 | Oh it started in the end , I think it was the er starter motor , but I went home again and took Mandy 's car instead , because I thought I do n't want it to play up tonight , you know , in the car park so I 'll have to check it out tomorrow afternoon . |
| 30 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |