Example sentences of "[adv] and [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home .
2 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 ?
3 They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before .
4 There was fourteen feet of snow floods but the main thing about these people , they took their jackets off and got stuck in and they became special people because they laid the foundation of the welfare state that everybody else in this room g gained out of .
5 Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant .
6 We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going
7 I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped .
8 ‘ Old Darlington was quite some place to live in and I reckon daily life must have been some sort of gamble , ’ said Joan .
9 Brought her her in and you know wee Gavin ?
10 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 ? ’
11 He really marched in and he pulled 20 lengths ahead of the other two just walking .
12 window sill on there , say , and then this comes down and they got French windows at the bottom .
13 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
14 Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine .
15 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 .
16 We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks
17 Anyway he come down and he got this box with disks in
18 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 .
19 He spoke Maa fluently and he had unrivalled connections .
20 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 .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up .
23 Erm somehow or other it 's going to come along and I think most people 's thinkings are that it will be shown as a tax item on the ticket as are the taxes in other countries
24 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
25 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 .
26 ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged .
27 His teeth were gritted together and he had dark circles under his eyes .
28 It was a very hard job holding everything together and it required tremendous dedication from everyone concerned .
29 Heather Goodchild , entertainment analyst at credit ratings agency Standard & Poor 's , said yesterday : ‘ MGM 's films just are n't working , their debts are running away and they have major problems in their corporate structure . ’
30 He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’
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