Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the autopsy going to give us much idea when Angela Morgan died — I mean within a day or so ? ’ |
| 2 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 4 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 5 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 6 | I sleep like a log and never get indigestion . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , reasonably , ’ I say with a smile and turn back to my work . |
| 8 | They were made of diamonds , not gold , but I wore them when I want to a ball and never felt my immortal soul in danger because of that . |
| 9 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 10 | ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat . |
| 11 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 12 | I put on a spacesuit and went into the cargo area were I found that while the main part of the sculpture was now solidified again , the fibres on the floor were disintegrating and useless . |
| 13 | I put on a jersey and jacket and lay with head and shoulders propped against a locker , eating sardines and mopping the oil from the can with fresh bread . |
| 14 | And I walk down a corridor and I go in a door , and they 're there . ’ |
| 15 | I climb into a taxi and head for Harvey Nichols to do some damage with the Barclaycard and the taxi driver tells me about his brother-in-law . |
| 16 | But I yearn for a child or even children . |
| 17 | I look at a person and if you like me you like me |
| 18 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 19 | have I time for a scrub or what ? |
| 20 | By now it has sold out , so I opt for a gin and tonic , at a price commensurate with a drink at the Ritz . |
| 21 | I get into a carriage and take Berlioz out of my briefcase . |
| 22 | That 's , that 's just like me that is , if I get into a rhythm and someone gives er , I can do it then , but if I just sit on a page , I think oh how do you do that ? |
| 23 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 24 | Now I feel like a millionaire and I 've got peace of mind . " |
| 25 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 26 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |
| 27 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 28 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 29 | The ideal is for me to stop out here on me own because , if I go into a unit or something and stop , it 's quite easy to go straight back on the gear . |
| 30 | Sometimes I go into a public-house and sit there with a glass of lemonade in my hand , eavesdropping , hoping to hear some treasonable conversation . |