Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports .
2 She frequently took pity on me and brought along a few choice dishes from home for my delectation .
3 I have a nutritionist who travels with me and works out a daily menu .
4 In the immediate aftermath of the plague , neither combatant was anxious to resume the war , and both were willing to listen to Pope Innocent VI when he attempted to mediate between them and bring about a lasting peace .
5 With Mick 's help , Paddy set about removing one bolt each from five of them and bolting together the sheared rim .
6 Yeah , but what I 'm saying is that , yeah , but what I 'm saying is when the parent comes to you and says well the primary school said they were you can say well well yes but by by our standards and our assessment when they arrived here
7 Now make a circle with your head , let it drop onto your chest , roll the head over the left shoulder , let it drop behind you and roll over the right shoulder and back onto the chest .
8 Penry propped up the pillows behind her , then opened the bag he 'd brought with him and took out a small torch .
9 But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’
10 Meg pushed past him and jumped down the four steps in her haste .
11 Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away .
12 She pulled it round her and picked up a heavy torch .
13 From Iago , too , Othello has caught the habit of repeating a word , dwelling on it to debase it or bring out a sinister double meaning ( compare Iago on ‘ virtue ’ and ‘ blest ’ : I.iii.318ff. ; II.i.245ff . ) .
14 who , who was it that brought down the human race ?
15 Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea .
16 If it does , no consequent action is needed ; if it does not , then either discard the generalization or amend it and try out the fresh implications .
17 His mind a careful blank , he reached to the shelf over it and took down a small plastic bag .
18 Edward turned to the jewel box beside him , opened it and took out a small gold ring with a precious ruby winking in the centre .
19 How soon do we abandon it and put together a new plan ?
20 They jumped it and went up the opposite slope .
21 Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end .
22 But we were able to work through it and come out the other side .
23 Gran 's stick lunged at it and dug out an ugly lump .
24 And the woman seemed in no hurry to close it and shut out the dangerous night ; she simply stood , looking down at the children and smiling .
25 Twice his quarry threw him backward glances , and on the second occasion seemed to slow his pace , as if he might stop and attempt a truce , but then thought better of it and put on an extra turn of speed .
26 Practise reading it and think up a few sentences to explain why you have chosen it .
27 When the gum was melted she opened it and slid out a single sheet of unheaded paper on which a short message was written in Italian .
28 But equally there is the option of differentiation , which is about setting oneself apart from the norm , not simply to criticize and condemn it but to set up an alternative and different model .
29 Of the subversive claims for gay machismo , Bersani is even more sceptical , since he regards it as involving not a parodic repudiation of straight machismo , but a profound respect for it .
30 Some see it as reflecting only an odd set of ancient taboos .
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