Example sentences of "[adv] and [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 2 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
| 3 | Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant . |
| 4 | ‘ Old Darlington was quite some place to live in and I reckon daily life must have been some sort of gamble , ’ said Joan . |
| 5 | And then we started the rehearsal scene and Rock Hudson walks in and he took one look at me and says , ‘ Where are my glasses ? ’ |
| 6 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 7 | One lass went down and she had some glass or something , and she was threatening to slash her wrists and there was a screw shouting , ‘ Well do it . |
| 8 | Anyway he come down and he got this box with disks in |
| 9 | I do n't really , I do n't really think it 's that that 's pinning people down and I think this theatre will be slightly different . |
| 10 | So on , for example , the fifteenth of that particular month , er , I 'm in Manchester for the day , I have one meeting at ten o'clock and I have another meeting at three thirty . |
| 11 | ‘ Me and my sister and my uncle — my sister , who 's a scientist , right ? — we were walking along and we saw this light go across the sky , then it stopped and made this complete square , then it was gone . ’ |
| 12 | you know er what in the bible says and er to get together for God put a woman and a man together and they become one flesh you read it , you think you understand what it is , but you do n't really understand until you lose your partner |
| 13 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 14 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 15 | It was a very hard job holding everything together and it required tremendous dedication from everyone concerned . |
| 16 | He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’ |
| 17 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 18 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 19 | You look through and you rotate that eyepiece until you 've either got maximum brightness cos you got a second polaroid system in there as well you see you either get maximum brightness or complete darkness . |
| 20 | And now that was the attitude that that that they they had that er a lot of them , not not everybody of course that just and she had this attitude , erm anybody that had lost their baby were lucky , you see . |
| 21 | ‘ I think we are at least as strong as the Oxford crew physically and we have more experience , though the ages of the crews are almost identical . |
| 22 | ‘ When we do silage work , this engine is barely ticking over and it uses less fuel over the same acreage than a Ford 8210 , ’ 2 he says . |
| 23 | I 'm not and I bought last night ! |
| 24 | The papers are all subjected to these for several Conferences before they 're voted on and we lay great emphasis on achieving consensus on any motion , and I think today on the Palestine/Israel debate , which is obviously a very contentious issue , it went through in about half an hour , very calmly , very peacefully , because a lot of hard work had been done . |
| 25 | See if you put artists on and you have this area as some kind of without carpet on |
| 26 | Well I was out there watering at time scares was on and I had this letter and planes did come over and I laid me ho hosepipe down , I mean you know so he would n't be able |
| 27 | You get on them slowly and they register one weight ; if you jump on them with gusto they register something quite different . |
| 28 | Right and they had this bit they 're in these white sailor 's uniform and they 're stripping the gloves off which was really uninteresting but they all looked really , you know , smart and they were saluting . |
| 29 | I I saw it somewhere and I got lost track of it . |
| 30 | It was a splendid meeting yesterday and they gave Bonar Law a magnificent reception . |