Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 2 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 3 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 4 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 5 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 6 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | It has n't all been smooth running of course , I mean working in a parliament with eighty separate national political delegations , working in t nine languages , I have to admit we 've made the odd slip . |
| 9 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 10 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 11 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 12 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 13 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 14 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 15 | I got boil in the bag fish tomorrow . |
| 16 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just coming home when I got hit in the engine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 20 | You caught me when I staged dived and looked after me when I got knocked in the eye . |
| 21 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 24 | Cos he had the silver , they had the the ju er co coronation and it er in the May , as your dad and I got married in the June . |
| 25 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
| 26 | I got clipped in an air strike on the first day . |
| 27 | But I hate doing I hate creepy crawlies , I hate spiders and I hate going in the loft . |
| 28 | ‘ When I have evenings off , I tend to stay in the club lurking in the shadows reading : I am disinclined to meet friends . |
| 29 | Will I need to invest in a Nitragon filter ? |
| 30 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |