Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [subord] [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean maybe if Roger came up and said , well , I want five , then clearly we would say , come off it Roger . |
| 2 | It depends on the selectors when I get home because France come to us in May . ’ |
| 3 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 4 | But I think possibly as Philip said his drugs are affecting his eyesight , but then they 'll need , he 'll have to have them tested and , and then , because he was on yesterday about them again |
| 5 | ‘ But I did only as Lachlan ordered me . |
| 6 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 7 | She straightened again as Travis returned with a branch . |
| 8 | ‘ What is it ? ’ she asked anxiously as Rachel pressed the button and immediately began re-dialling . |
| 9 | ‘ Have I offended you , Maggie ? ’ she asked quietly as Mitch went off to climb quite dangerously to get a shot . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course you can drive down and drive back and be back soon , ’ she fumed later when Marc had released them after prolonging his cat-and-mouse game with his brother for as long as possible , ‘ but what 's the point when there is no paper ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps she moved just before Melanie died , ’ Bridget suggested . |
| 12 | And you might both like to talk to each other now about what you found easy what you found hard because Kelly found some bits hard , you thought oh it 's obvious , did n't you ? |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , once I get this analysis out of the way things might — ’ She stopped again as Luke appeared in the doorway . |
| 14 | Not in that way ! ’ she added hastily as Eddie jerked her head up like a watchdog at the sound of an intruder . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I am not going to be sick again , ’ she added fiercely as Elise eyed her in alarm . |
| 16 | It is not a thing for the amateur , ’ she added warningly as Jenna eyed it with glee . |
| 17 | It was Ana who came forward as Maggie came into the room , and clearly she did not let her blindness get in the way of being hostess for her brother . |
| 18 | She turned away as Victor announced the arrival of their guests . |
| 19 | She stays behind while Vicki goes to replenish the water bottles , but when the girl returns to the ship Barbara notices her being pursued by the sand creature . |
| 20 | Raising her coffee-cup to her lips , she stiffened suddenly as Rourke came and stood by the entrance to the tent . |
| 21 | She watched carefully as Travis lingered over his own cup . |
| 22 | She watched curiously as Rory rolled back a piece of carpet six feet away and pulled out an iron key . |
| 23 | She chattered happily as Patrick drove along the Marylebone Road , speculating on the miracle that had brought John and Angela back from the dead . |
| 24 | She laughed hysterically as Piper grunted with pain and fell to the deck . |
| 25 | She laughed again as Claudia said that once was too much , and from then on she treated Claudia as if she were going on holiday with the man of her dreams . |
| 26 | She listened sympathetically as Constance told her of Nicky 's revelation . |
| 27 | She listened now as Theodora retailed the to-ing and fro-ing of the clergy and police : the poor Dean , the remote Bishop , the worried Chief Constable , Mrs Gray . |
| 28 | She looked away as Trent had done . |
| 29 | Now here was a boy who listened stolidly while Hugo read to him some of the greatest literature in the world ; who yawned over Villon ; who stared out of the window longingly while Hugo read Maupassant or Flaubert . |
| 30 | She smiled vaguely when Myra asked her about the dinner and walked out of the room into Roman 's waiting arms . |