Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As people grow older , however , they may be more likely to develop illnesses or conditions which make it more difficult for them to cope without some help or support . |
| 2 | you 'll be , you 'll be sent instructions on what , who to write to and it 's a matter of sorting those out and erm sending out letters to group members like asking them to write to this person or that person , so that 's not too bad , . |
| 3 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 4 | yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came |
| 5 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 6 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 7 | Now when I was preparing this evidence , I got to this point and I thought to myself , why on earth has this not happened in Richmondshire ? |
| 8 | ‘ Have I stumbled on some dark and desperate secret ? ’ |
| 9 | In agreeing , Lord Fraser told Walker : ‘ I ca n't overstate the value I attach to such assistance and support . ’ |
| 10 | I trembled at that nakedness and read : |
| 11 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 12 | ‘ Right , Piper , we 'll forget the bloody left , right , left , right , routine , ’ snarls the Sergeant , ‘ When I knock on this door and you hear someone say ‘ come in' ’ , you go in , turn right , and salute . |
| 13 | All her own passion had died out of her : she felt deflated ; she had the desire to laugh , and she almost did as she said , ‘ Yes , I know what I want at this moment and that 's something to eat and then to get downstairs again , because , you know , it 's Father 's night for the club . ’ |
| 14 | I stop outside this laundrette and warm myself up . |
| 15 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 16 | So I said well sir I find maths really boring and I walk into this classroom and it 's all painted the same with this blackboard in front and I just find it boring , he goes yes guess who he was taught by at rugby ? |
| 17 | I flourish in this climate and , no doubt , will ultimately retire in this idyllic environment . ’ |
| 18 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 19 | I heard of this place and felt interested , ’ she informed him with truth , or at least part truth . |
| 20 | Now as I say , I started at that price and I used to have to help in the warehouse , in the packing and so forth , and then if there was any parcels to go into Nottingham I used to have to deliver them , by hand . |
| 21 | I stared at that face and something stirred in my memory . |
| 22 | So I looked through this device and er found what the reading it gave , so I went to my map and I found that that 's where Mars should have been . |
| 23 | Lorenzo and I looked at each other and nothing had changed . |
| 24 | When I looked into that bay and saw the ship was gone , I knew it was all over . |
| 25 | ‘ Sunil , do I gather from that jug and bowl that we wash in our bedrooms with cold water ? ’ |
| 26 | so anyway I go into this doctor and I erm please and and all , and I ai n't been feeling well and all and this |
| 27 | I went to that boy but he was a lovely boy ! |
| 28 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 29 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
| 30 | I went to this game and although I probably do n't deserve to get a ticket I will probably take the opportunity . |