Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 2 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 3 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 4 | I eventually tracked down the ward sister , who was wrestling with an intravenous drip that had collapsed . |
| 5 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 6 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 7 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I only write down the figures , really , but I do find it fascinating . ’ |
| 9 | Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ? |
| 10 | oh no , I just pick out the kidneys . |
| 11 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 12 | Can I just finish off the front I can do that tonight , tonight please ? |
| 13 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 14 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 15 | I do n't mind , I do n't mind so long as I just get out a bit on , into town and |
| 16 | Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ? |
| 17 | I just brought up the files . |
| 18 | I just let out a giggle of disbelief which made the old gecko who ran the class flutter his ruff at me in disapproval ; I calmed him with a quip and continued the negotiations with my round and financially tenacious new chum . |
| 19 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 20 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 21 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 22 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 23 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 24 | — But I just hang around the flat all day getting bored . |
| 25 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |
| 26 | ‘ This is the time I normally ride round the hacienda . |
| 27 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
| 28 | When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings . |
| 29 | Well i it 's a lot to do with the , the how light it is , I always get up a lot more easily I think when it 's , it 's not dark . |
| 30 | I always play down the beauty of a model . ’ |