Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle , either sailing around the windsurf bay till the winds become gusty , or sailing upwind for lunch at the long beach . |
| 2 | Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle . |
| 3 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 4 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 5 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 6 | It visited chiefs , and worked through them to find out about local resources , tools , apprenticeship patterns and market locations . |
| 7 | The storm 's blowing over and you 've nothing to worry about except fifteen years inside . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 9 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 10 | I had to do something to keep my flat going and everything , so I got in with these girls , working girls . |
| 11 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 12 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 13 | If I hold on to these things they go , and if I let go of them they go , and so my life goes . |
| 14 | Er and I think I came up with six negatives and and one very feeble positive . |
| 15 | I came up with these answers : |
| 16 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 17 | ‘ I came back after two years out of the ring because boxing 's in my blood and because I feel I can win the title . |
| 18 | I teed off with 15 clubs , one too many . |
| 19 | How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions ! |
| 20 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 21 | I look back on those emotions with wry amusement but also with a certain amount of self-respect . |
| 22 | When I look back on those days now , I think how perfectly harmless it all was by comparison with today 's pornography . |
| 23 | I look down on clear rivers . |
| 24 | I chickened out after three days and put the lights back on . |
| 25 | I move them and instead of having a good scuttle across the floor , I stand up on these legs in quite the wrong attitude . |
| 26 | I walked up to these fellers , a few paces , and just stood in front of them , looked at them — they knew what was wanted — ‘ Clear off ! ’ |
| 27 | with all ty I get on with all types of people , that 's why I think I like you know er I like people . |
| 28 | He 's into fun and games in bed , all the horny things that I get off on like spankings and Polaroid pictures . |
| 29 | What I get out of these ads is a feeling that it may be time to ban all beer commercials from television , but not because they encourage young people to drink . |
| 30 | Someone rushed out with wet towels to wrap around him . |