Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [coord] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it gets to the point where I ca n't wait any longer and I 've got to try out whatever mod I have in mind . |
| 2 | We did land home eventually but I think Mrs Thwaites 's folks were understandably worried , wondering where we had got to . |
| 3 | I knew I could do well academically and I did it as a challenge to the conventional idea of the black kid who 's good at sports , yet with no brains . |
| 4 | Sometimes he looked round the Park to see if he might move somewhere else but he did not like to start a flight with so many Men staring at him all at once . |
| 5 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |
| 6 | Well maybe ages ago , but like you know when David told me to fuck off and die really seriously and I thought that 's nice . |
| 7 | I now find that the perms do n't take very well and I have to have it repermed and even then there is some part where it does not take . |
| 8 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 9 | She said I ca n't cope no more , she said I just can not cope any longer and I said you must n't feel like that I said you 'll break all our hearts , I said it 's , life will never be the same again , I said come on home with me , forget about this day , I said tomorrow we 'll come and pick your birds up cos she 's got two beautiful parrots , she 's got a Mulican white with peach |
| 10 | But one tyre specialist says the law does n't go far enough and he thinks the limit should be increased even further . |
| 11 | Jack could go no further and he turned and ran terrified back to the engine . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't play particularly well and I did n't play particularly badly . |
| 13 | And er really er they themselves thought exactly the same like , but they were talking about other people telling them you know that they could n't get this far but they did . |
| 14 | We would tread very carefully but we have done this sort of thing before and we would try and make him realise just what he 's doing to himself . ’ |
| 15 | She would n't say even then but I plagued her a bit till she could n't keep it to herself any longer . |