Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after that I just lay there and let him do what he wanted and he would complain about that too . |
| 2 | ‘ After the police had come and talked to us I just went home and had a cup of tea and a glass of brandy with water and went to bed . ’ |
| 3 | After I left Tillers , I just came home and looked after my mother . |
| 4 | Cos even when I , I 've been to see like , you know ones I just sit there and tend to go , yeah . |
| 5 | I just sat there and thought , I 'm not doing it , |
| 6 | It was totally outside my experience and so I just stood there and walked out . |
| 7 | no it 's a , it 's , it 's , it , it , it is not like that I 'm making an excuse , I always think ahead and look ahead right , now I 've got a phone in my cab , all the other lorries have , you know , a mobile phone , right , how he know I 'm supposed to give the |
| 8 | But I still come home and do it . |
| 9 | I often smile wearily and say , ‘ Oh , dizzy me . |
| 10 | I took this to mean that he was suicidal , so I immediately went upstairs and removed anything harmful from the bathroom . |
| 11 | I leave lights on , I wander about , I even step outside and clean the windows . |
| 12 | May I simply go ahead and ask ? ’ |
| 13 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't believe I actually stood here and let you — maul me . ’ |
| 15 | We arrived at the hospital at 6.00 a.m. , me still leaking away and waited for something to happen . |
| 16 | I thought she was just being awkward until she slowly went downhill and became incontinent . |
| 17 | But if you only listen well and make little contribution yourself , you risk suppressing your own needs and leaving the other party feeling cheated and exposed at the end of the conversation . |
| 18 | She said , ‘ You just sit here and think about what you 've done . |
| 19 | We 're not picking on you we 're just trying to get a conversation going here like , but it 's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing . |
| 20 | ‘ You just go there and talk — what about ? ’ |
| 21 | Here 's the Queen Street corner , and you just turn right and keep going full steam ahead . |
| 22 | Would you just sit there and allow your neighbour 's tree to grow to a size S 1 that inflicts a huge cost on you ? |
| 23 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 24 | You just stood there and made a complete fool of me — ’ |
| 25 | Now you just lie here and enjoy the rest . |
| 26 | Because you just stand there and hope someone 's gon na read your lips so you do n't have to do anything with your body ! |
| 27 | You just stand there and say , Who 's going to be here next week ? |
| 28 | If you do n't know what to say , you have to think … you just stand quietly and do n't say nothing and something comes into your brain . ’ |
| 29 | Would she just move away and forget ? |
| 30 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |