Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 2 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 3 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 4 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 5 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
| 6 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 7 | I mean you can see how they live , I mean look at the roads . |
| 8 | I was one of her props though eventually I got moved into the backs because I was so good looking ! ’ |
| 9 | I used to be a spooler , worked a machine , but I got moved to the samples about six years ago . |
| 10 | So I got caned on the palms of my hands . |
| 11 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 12 | What if I got rid of the clothes and kept her stuff till we 're ready to do a boot sale with it . |
| 13 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 14 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 15 | So I got to stay with the dogs and |
| 16 | ‘ I hate going to the pictures . |
| 17 | ‘ I love clothes — but I hate trailing round the shops . ’ |
| 18 | What do I need to discuss with the parents when taking on a child ? |
| 19 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 20 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 21 | I tried to play on the drums , I 'm not too good at that . |
| 22 | I tried breathing through the sleeves of my tracksuit . |
| 23 | My scope here is necessarily limited , and I propose to concentrate on the relationships between the political parties and the social collectivities which have furnished their support blocs . |
| 24 | I propose to write to the shops affected by the move of the Clerk Street stop — Edinburgh Fabrics ( 12/14 St Patrick Square ) — to advise them of the proposal . |
| 25 | Last night Le Saux said : ‘ I want to apologise to the fans because I obviously regret what I did . |
| 26 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 27 | I want to spy on the shrubs . " |
| 28 | I want to talk to the hijackers . |
| 29 | Er I seriously wish I 'd said to them you know , I 'm , I 'm phoning it a fortnight in advance because I want to stick to the arrangements . |
| 30 | erm I want to get to the homes you know the old er |