Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 2 | D' ya want me to go round to that school and beat the crap out of them ? |
| 3 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 4 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 5 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 6 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | It visited chiefs , and worked through them to find out about local resources , tools , apprenticeship patterns and market locations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 13 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 14 | I rode back to Dire Dawa , past Haramaya Lake where my parents had camped , took the train to Jibuti and then a Messageries Maritimes boat to Marseilles , third-class among a draft of the Foreign Legion ; an interesting contrast with the Mission 's journey to Aden first-class on a P and 0 with a deck reserved to ourselves . |
| 15 | I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group . |
| 16 | We approach a tight bend : the driver talks to the conductor ; the morning sun shines blindingly — I peer over into pure space . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | And but the reason that I got up to ten stone is because christmas . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 22 | You know but we man I I got out at any rate . |
| 23 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 24 | ‘ I got out in one shot . ’ |
| 25 | I had to do something to keep my flat going and everything , so I got in with these girls , working girls . |
| 26 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 27 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 28 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 29 | After I got back to civilian life , I fell back into the habit of admiring the Masai , but regarding them as insubstantial . |
| 30 | Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second . |