Example sentences of "[adv] and [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can taste food again , you feel better , you smell better and you feel like a winner ! |
| 2 | Usually his anger seeped out in irritation ; just occasionally his partial defence broke down and he emptied in an explosion of fury . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course not ! ’ she snapped at him and glared down and he smiled in a very self-satisfied manner . |
| 4 | ‘ We old Indians come to like this England less and less and we return to an imagined India . ’ |
| 5 | They mix these two things together and it went like a |
| 6 | She had been crying again and her mascara had been washed away and she looked like an eleven-year-old waking up in hospital after an operation . |
| 7 | But while they hesitated and debated , Lucy 's strength ebbed away and she fell in a swoon , putting to death a hundred thousand insects beneath her lovely body . |
| 8 | Erm as we were going through and we talked about a will , you said there there 's somebody you knew who would be able to , you know , who you 'd like to carry out your wishes if you were not here to carry them out yourself er I think it was , was it er John ? |
| 9 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 10 | yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ? |
| 11 | The switchboard answered quickly and it seemed like a good omen . |
| 12 | We went off and we got to a steep hill , we all had to get out |
| 13 | This last action nearly caused her to fall off and she lurched to a rather drunken halt at Mildred 's feet . |
| 14 | I gathered up all my courage and went home and we went for a walk and I just told him . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yes — only I 've got to catch the last bus home and it leaves at a quarter to eleven … ’ |
| 16 | In the interval his coach Robert Ellis told Hopper to work harder and he did with a vengeance . |
| 17 | As Mr. Ratcliffe pointed out , others suffer similarly and he gave as a worse example a village called Iwade , situated on the main road to Sheerness Docks . |
| 18 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
| 19 | His change of bank with the same g sends his nose up and he climbs into a barrel roll . |
| 20 | He was bent in the act of locking the car as Maggie came up and he straightened to a considerable height , dark eyes running over her in astonishment . |
| 21 | The chimney is blocked so I could n't light a fire to heat anything up and I went without a hot drink for those four days . |
| 22 | The following morning , the scout picked me up and I went for a trial . |
| 23 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 24 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 25 | Our conclusions for what they are worth are set out and we come to a figure of about forty five thousand . |
| 26 | They ask now and they buy in a year . |
| 27 | A loud alarm bell rang out soundly and he awoke from a trance . |
| 28 | His body stiffened ; there was a change in him , Robyn felt it , knew it and then he drew back and she saw in a fleeting moment his own look of self-disgust . |
| 29 | The cushioning provided by the Trinonic units in the EVA midsole did the job well and it feels like a very stable shoe . |
| 30 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |