Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watch him stretch , yawn , look across at me and come out with those perfect forty-year-old clichés they use to make the time pass easily and without controversy . |
| 2 | If most of the plants have finished , discard them and plant up with spring-flowering bulbs or winter-interest dwarf shrubs . |
| 3 | I did actually say I was going to put a plan together for you and come back in two weeks but I mean |
| 4 | During this period the spit suffered erosion on its south-west facing portion , the shingle being transported round the Ness itself and built up into new ridges on the east-facing side , where the dominant waves come from an east or north-east direction . |
| 5 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 6 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 7 | I put my forehead against it and hung on with both hands . |
| 8 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 9 | When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another . |
| 10 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 11 | That was the great virtue of boozing , to go into a pub by yourself and end up with fifteen mates just for the night . |
| 12 | The gentleman there 's going out with me round about quarter past eleven do you wan na come with us and call in to that place ? |