Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [pos pn] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ You miss it coming up to the time , but I made up my mind some time ago to call it quits . |
| 2 | Introducing himself as ‘ without doubt the safest display pilot in the room , ’ Bill Bedford caused some stir until he qualified this with ‘ because I hung up my helmet some time ago ! ’ |
| 3 | I went up her house last night , it 's I du n no how , how I got through , the long way |
| 4 | I could n't go because I fell off my horse one day and broke my leg . |
| 5 | I gave up my pipe last Christmas . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do about those shellfish , for I picked up their cousins last year and learned all about them from Rees 's Cyclopedia in Mr. Nelson 's library . ’ |
| 7 | The trouble with you , my friend , Coffin thought , looking at him , is that you make up your mind first and get the evidence afterwards . |
| 8 | She lived out her life unmarried in Buckeburg in Hanover , first with her remaining sister , who died within the year , and then alone . |
| 9 | She flies around her wood all night . |
| 10 | She got off her bed resolute and determined . |
| 11 | Are you keeping up your drinking prior to the race ? |
| 12 | She screwed up her cornflower blue eyes in concentration . |
| 13 | If you run the dog down the field , you look over your shoulder all the time , waiting for one to hit you . |
| 14 | I folded my arms and observed Emily Lightbody as she touched up her make-up preparatory to leaving . |
| 15 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | I 'll drive to Bernard , do you go up my way first ? |
| 17 | ‘ Then you went round her house last night . |
| 18 | And … and it was the same man who … who took off my cap that . |
| 19 | Many people who took out their fireplaces several years ago now find they want to restore them to have a real open fire or some acceptable substitute like gas logs or a gas coal effect . |
| 20 | Oliver was , and still is , a farmhand who put down his spade one afternoon and picked up his guitar to tell the Robert Johnson story his way . |
| 21 | Well , my agent got terrified , and she closed up her office that day , and they all went home . |
| 22 | Philip Treacy , a talented novice who set up his company two years ago after leaving The Royal College of Art , makes guest appearances for the Karl Lagerfeld/Chanel stable , Rifat Ozbek and Jil Sander . |
| 23 | I hope the result will not detract from the overall confidence of the team as the premiership is there to be won , if we keep up our record good record in the league . |
| 24 | Mind you , so did we when we went round your place last night and found you gone . |
| 25 | Something carries on her arm five offspring , variously described as planets , moons , and cylinders . |
| 26 | A WOMAN shot her 12-year-old son in the stomach as they argued over their TV remote control . |
| 27 | If they carried out their threat this would mean that neither the IWC 's conservation measures nor the already weak and inhumane killing regulations would apply to them . |
| 28 | ‘ Not if he turned up his shirt-sleeve first and took him from behind . ’ |
| 29 | The Myrcans let it run down their faces unheeded . |
| 30 | An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working . |