Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 2 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 3 | No I mean even with a hand saw , you know , I 've done it before |
| 4 | I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work . |
| 5 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 6 | I lay there in a sort of wonderment , listening to a rich world of sound about me . |
| 7 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 8 | The café itself is so crowded with smoke that I sit outside on a bench . |
| 9 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 10 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 11 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 12 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 13 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 14 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 15 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 16 | Unfortunately , this is not to be , since it transpires that the gentleman from British Rail was nothing short of a duplicitous cad ; there are no small compartments , just open-plan carriages too large to be defended by even the most outrageous behaviour , so I slump sullenly into a corner , wallowing in layers of dust and grime that would easily qualify for a Quentin Crisp kitemark , waiting for the guard to switch on the heat and the lights , preparatory to the departure of the Sir John . |
| 17 | I know I walk around in a daze most of the day but this is bloody rediculous . |
| 18 | I speak not as a lawyer but as a politician . |
| 19 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 20 | Halfway through a morning 's work , I climb down for a coffee . |
| 21 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 22 | I 'm going to stay there for a bit while I look round for a place . ’ |
| 23 | I look forward to a directive under the social action programme . |
| 24 | I look forward to a reply by return of post . |
| 25 | But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid . |
| 26 | Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’ |
| 27 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 28 | If I 'm going to a meeting where I know I 'm going to be the only woman I put my war paint on , if I 'm just going to be in the office all day I slob around in a skirt and a jumper with very little make up . |
| 29 | Then I run off in a storm to see an astrologer . |
| 30 | " I read up about a lot of them , Kate . |