Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' ya want me to go round to that school and beat the crap out of them ? |
| 2 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up with more self-esteem and confidence than those who are allowed to get away with behaving in any way they like . |
| 3 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 4 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |
| 5 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 6 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 7 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 8 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 9 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 10 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 11 | You know but we man I I got out at any rate . |
| 12 | I had to do something to keep my flat going and everything , so I got in with these girls , working girls . |
| 13 | In fact , I told him that when I got back from this holiday he must come round and have a meal . |
| 14 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Afterwards I moved in with this neighbour . |
| 16 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 17 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 18 | I hurry over in that direction . |
| 19 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 20 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 21 | If I hold on to these things they go , and if I let go of them they go , and so my life goes . |
| 22 | ‘ That question 's been going round in my head ever since I woke up in that alley . ’ |
| 23 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , just something I came up with that Ari should be able to do herself . |
| 25 | Erm and I came up with this bit , sort of the middle bit , national curriculum levels would be er your own thing right ? |
| 26 | I came up with these answers : |
| 27 | I came in to this building last year I 've got people sitting here who 've realised it was n't a happy place to be I found it quite difficult . |
| 28 | Twice I came off at that spot . |
| 29 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 30 | I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country . |