Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked . |
| 2 | I do n't mean today I mean if she 's going in to London or something you know she 's got a base in London to do something in the morning before she goes on a call as opposed to some of them who have n't got a proper office space |
| 3 | So she goes to a clinic and exactly the same thing happens . |
| 4 | She goes to a doctor and the doctor says , right , get undressed behind the screen . |
| 5 | Somebody who prodded them occasionally , she thinks with a rifle as he was n't right up close , to make sure they realized he was there . |
| 6 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 7 | Well she was gon na have the three piece suite actually but she lives in a bungalow and of course the settee was a six foot settee which they do n't make now |
| 8 | She lives in a vicarage and already carries out most of the duties a vicar does . |
| 9 | Sometimes a piece of fruit or a tub of yogurt is eaten at the end of lunch but more often she finishes with a biscuit or has nothing as dessert . |
| 10 | So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum . |
| 11 | She looks like an angel and she 's a slut … . ’ |
| 12 | She pauses for a moment and the van overflows with the sound of helpless male laughter . |
| 13 | When she learns that her fiancé is sleeping with his ex-wife , she advertises for a roommate and selects the seemingly sympathetic Leigh . |
| 14 | — She eats like a horse and never gains an ounce . |
| 15 | Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider , she may swat you by mistake . |
| 16 | Although Blanche has brought the consequences of her actions on herself she suffers in a way that no one should have to suffer . |
| 17 | We stand holding each other , and she shivers like a butterfly and her tears trickle down my skin . |
| 18 | Out erm well , mum , in the morning she works as a postwoman and then the rest of the day she works as a , in the pub so |
| 19 | I can understand why she works in a hotel but I mean why not in Cardiff or something like that ? |
| 20 | If she works in a shop or office , she could take samples of her work to show her colleagues or she could offer to make a garment for a friend for just the price of the yarn . |
| 21 | It 's daft , it says a girl 's always got to wear grey if she works behind a counter or in a business 'ouse or as an 'otel clerk . |
| 22 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 23 | In a moment of weary despair , he turns to a colleague and says , ‘ It 's like pissing into the wind ! ’ |
| 24 | So it points towards an infection but it does n't prove it . |
| 25 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 26 | When the water evaporates it goes on a cloud and then the cloud goes in any place and later it goes out as rain . |
| 27 | Gives her income and it 's balanced by her allowances and if you move not sufficient to , for the income to exceed that then at the same time it goes into a bank or building society you apply for them not to deduct income . |
| 28 | He goes on a bit but he 's basically very good-hearted and kind . |
| 29 | He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said . |
| 30 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |