Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | why do n't you shut up for a moment |
| 32 | Did you write off for a catalogue ? |
| 33 | Why do n't you come here for a while . |
| 34 | Would you , would you like to do a group collaboration on this one , because erm , can you come up with a version that your group agrees on ? |
| 35 | ‘ Why did you come across on a ferry flight ? ’ |
| 36 | Wo n't you come in for a minute ? |
| 37 | Will you come in for a cup of tea ? |
| 38 | Better still , why do n't you come along to a party we 're throwing tomorrow evening ? |
| 39 | Like , after this tonight , I 'd let you come out in a vehicle with me . |
| 40 | Can you sit down for a while after that ? |
| 41 | If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ? |
| 42 | She had always had a vague idea that psychotherapists made you lie down on a couch and waffle on about your problems until finally , in some miraculous way , they were no longer problems , just a pain that had been gradually eased away . |
| 43 | Shall we meet up as a foursome ? ’ |
| 44 | er , how long have we got , oh about , not even half way through the tape yet , shall we go upstairs for a bit ? |
| 45 | How many sixths would we get out of a half ? |
| 46 | Right ah can we connect again with a couple of people we we coming up there if anybody out there er is a fan of Mary Whitehouse 's as I am give me a call and you know you know who I 'm talking to ring now . |
| 47 | Easy path or not , a climb of over 4,000 feet every Monday morning would certainly make me phone in with a headache . |
| 48 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 49 | She wants to escape from home , and the least we can do is to let her stay here for a while . |
| 50 | Watching this violation of the body 's orifices , preliminaries to the scientific brutality to follow , had always made him feel uncomfortably like a voyeur . |
| 51 | He 's really gorgeous wee Simeon although our Joy lets him schlepp about like a Toerag . |
| 52 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 53 | Then I let her warble on for a while about the trials of high office , and feign interest in titbits of gossip from the upper echelons . |
| 54 | His albums ‘ Travels ’ , ‘ Still Life Talking ’ and ‘ Offramp ’ have all seen him walk away with a guitar case full of awards . |
| 55 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 56 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 57 | Which England should they hold up as a pattern , a reasonably true pattern ? |
| 58 | Yet how often do they come up with a verdict that 's manifestly perverse having regard to the evidence ? " |
| 59 | How could they sit around in a stupor for so long ? |
| 60 | Letting her breath out on a sigh , she looked up . |