Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I know where the police station is , for Christ 's sake ! ’
2 Ever since I took over the tips section in the hallowed pages of ZZAP ! 64 , folks have whinged that most of the pokes are for Reset and Action Replay carts .
3 She describes well the privileges attendant on maleness , as well as the hazards and horrors awaiting certain groups of men — notably poor , black men on welfare in the US since Reagan , and gay men in the era of AIDS .
4 Where the bus , and you know where the buses park and everything , that used to be all sidings right under that bridge that 's got the weight limit on
5 child sex abuse you know where the children abuse other children
6 You know the corner , you know where the police station is in Wellingborough ?
7 Julia compared the food of the two parties and decided unhappily that she liked both the dish-of-herbs meal of this evening and also the elaborate deliciousness of avocado mousse , sole and boeuf en croûte of the previous day .
8 More than once in cross-examination Miss Tucker said that she had since the police interview changed her statement , and had made ‘ a new one . ’
9 She stayed up the police station all day .
10 She held up the sports bag she held in one hand .
11 He totted up the figures night after night , and ‘ he would take that piece of paper out of his pocket and look at it again and again ’ .
12 fantastic it stirs up a hornets nest .
13 Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that
14 But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape .
15 He should know : he set up the police unit which , fictionalised , rushes around the small screen under the name ’ Miami Vice ’ .
16 He ended up the Operations Officer .
17 He picked up the sports jacket and examined the collar but could see no blood , no unburnt powder and no scorching .
18 Erm but if this trend continues , I can see them shooting down the activities side of this this place and just using it as an advice centre .
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