Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 2 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 4 | They would let them stay on until they married and got farms of their own , because , perhaps , their own home circumstances would not be very good . |
| 5 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 6 | Furthermore , as a result of high levels of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s ( and possibly also as a result of the capacity of the more affluent to accumulate enough resources to enable them to retire early if they wish ) , the percentage of those in their late fifties and early sixties who regard themselves as permanently retired has increased ( Walker 1980 ; GHS 1986 : 73 ; Johnson 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Let them dry overnight before you switch on the heat again . |
| 8 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 9 | She had a fistful of tiny flowers , and made me wait patiently while she described them all , making up her own names when she forgot or had never learned the real ones . |
| 10 | It 's good for me to come away because I smoke fewer . |
| 11 | He told me to come back after I 'd starved off ten pounds . ’ |
| 12 | Then I heard a voice call me to come in so I turned the door knob and entered . |
| 13 | PLEASE let me know on if you have any tit-bits for either Medau News or the local Press . |
| 14 | Then Mum went over and I gazed on as she replaced the sheet and then rolled Granny onto her side and began feeling under the mattress . |
| 15 | That 's what I said if you buy a grey suit the trousers you 'll , I mean alright if you do n't , I mean you 'll wear , grey wo n't date . |
| 16 | and , like I said I mean anyway if you 've got a tan |
| 17 | I mean just when you think about it they they were actually following estate agents when they went out to value a property . |
| 18 | I mean just cos I want I , just , just cos you want out of here , I 'm not gon na accept any old place |
| 19 | That ai n't , that ai n't basically it , you do n't wan na do it , that is the main thing , I mean you never been one for wanting to go , I mean even when we lived in Jersey and you ai n't got any idea how small Jersey is , Val and John used to come to us , but we never went to Val and John 's , it 's hell all mighty getting him out , if I do n't go on me own , I do n't go . |
| 20 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 21 | I mean even when I smoked I did . |
| 22 | ‘ They blame us for their problems , I mean even though we have lived here for many , many generations . |
| 23 | so I mean even if they do n't bring in , oh the housing benefit |
| 24 | I mean even if they do n't get a result on it |
| 25 | I mean even if she walks out he does n't , no court in the land would give him the house if it 's hers . |
| 26 | I mean even if you did provide reassurances , just because the peasants were well aware of the fact that hardl although they 'd been given lands and their had been er the lan you know the previous been destroyed , the Communist Party could take back their land tomorrow if they wanted to . |
| 27 | I mean even if you double the size of the Thames Valley force you would n't have a police officer outside every pub . |
| 28 | Yeah , well I mean even if you recorded as much as you can , if , you 've got twenty tapes |
| 29 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 30 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |