Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With other feelings we may be burdened by their strength , yet still be free enough to choose whether we express them to others by word or action , indulge them or keep a tight rein on them . |
| 2 | This is largely the result of a dramatic increase in the level of reported and detected crime over the same period , though it also reflects decisions by the police and prosecuting authorities to deal with such offenders by means of prosecuting them instead of cautioning them or taking no further action . |
| 3 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 4 | A certain firm famous for their ‘ bags ’ trouser suits , used to do an extensive line of grey anoraks , but they obviously had a visit from the style police and were made to put bits of navy blue and red in them or face a lengthy jail sentence . |
| 5 | And do you know , ’ he leaned across the table staring at me and tapping the open file softly with his huge fingers , ‘ if tomorrow I decide to release one of them , there will be over three times as much paper-work . ’ |
| 6 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Come , come and sit dose to me and keep an old man warm . ’ |
| 8 | You do n't overtake , you just keep an eye on me and keep the same distance away . |
| 9 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 10 | In any event he did a very professional job with me and took a great weight off Laura 's shoulders . |
| 11 | I stole a quick sidelong glance , and saw him turn his head at the same instant to look at me and give a faint smile . |
| 12 | Come with me and meet the other teachers . |
| 13 | In fact I 'll even be super-optimistic for me and predict a clean sheet with Quinn 's injury . |
| 14 | 12 She shifts her body and flips her wings to keep balance , then looks at me and makes a new sound , like peeEP ; very sharp . |
| 15 | Now she stood beside me and watched the white Lincoln drive out of the boatyard . |
| 16 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 17 | I flew out to Chino , California , where the aircraft was based , Merril met me and flew an impressive display in the aircraft . |
| 18 | ‘ This man is of no more use to the world than those artists who came to fawn on me and scrape a little importance for themselves . |
| 19 | Tim is doing a one-year cabinetmaking course with me and paying a princely sum for the pleasure of doing it . |
| 20 | The same principle can be drawn from all of them and help the troubled find meaning and purpose in their lives . |
| 21 | The discounts can be 13 per cent or more , a good return for whoever buys them and recovers the full face value a year later from the issuing bank . |
| 22 | A number of pupils and staff are away on a four-day school trip and efforts were being made today to contact them and break the dreadful news . |
| 23 | The Arab states , with the exception of Lebanon and possibly Egypt , might well have resettled the bulk of the refugees , had Israel accepted the principle of the right of return by receiving back about one-quarter of them and had the international community generously funded resettlement . |
| 24 | The Hearthwares and Myrcans were greeted with friendliness and something like relief by the people they came upon — merchants in covered carts , farmers with flocks and herds , women bent under loads of firewood or water , children trailing behind them and eyeing the armoured figures on the big horses in wonder . |
| 25 | The student should look out for them and make a mental note of their fascinating and beautiful effect . |
| 26 | So she stayed in her parents ' home during the winter , helping to look after the children , making clothes for them and earning a little money whenever she could . |
| 27 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 28 | First of all they are sorted into groups of similar material : pottery , brooches , pieces of worked stone , and so on ; these may be sent at this stage to various specialists , who will study them and write a technical report . |
| 29 | When they stepped out on to the track some twenty paces from him he only turned his head slowly to glance at them and made no other movement . |
| 30 | He commented on the smell of petrol that came from them and made an elaborate joke of not putting them too close to the flames . |