Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area .
2 I am over at the big house within a couple of minutes , kilt on , best sporran and carrying the bagpipes , and prepared for anything .
3 I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page .
4 I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife
5 I 'm off for a few days again so i 'll be a bit quiet .
6 About-to-be-ex-Lit-Ed , actually , come early January ( I 'm off to the Independent Magazine , which , although it 's the most literary colour supplement in town , does not and will not run book reviews ) ; but while there is a breath of bookish discernment left in my body , I suggest the following thoughts about the spring lists .
7 I know I 'm in for a long night .
8 Ed was just like a one off and I 'm not forward any more at all and , you know , everyone thinks I am you know and Pete thought right I 'm in for a good time here , you know , I can probably get her you know , and so Charlie would have to carry out his part .
9 That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night .
10 At any rate , I reckon I 'm in with a sporting chance .
11 But then I started putting humbuckers in all my guitars and now I 'm back to the single coil thing , but just for playing in my hotel room .
12 But fuck it ; at least I 'm back in the real world , and with a modicum of control .
13 Do you know I 've had a blue pen , I 've had a black pen and now I 'm down to a bloody pencil .
14 I 'm out of the multi-storey now and still running , though slower .
15 Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air .
16 Soon Jacob and I were out on the lonely , snow-covered hills .
17 Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly .
18 But I was up against a big , strong lad called Eddie Evans in the Canada game and that was very hard work .
19 Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so
20 I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end .
21 Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time .
22 Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon .
23 So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be .
24 Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard .
25 Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century .
26 I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment !
27 Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach .
28 The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus .
29 By the 8th June , I was back in the front line .
30 So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off .
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