Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
2 | So I says only on one condition if your daddy pi leaves you at the door at school and picks you up |
3 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |
4 | 'E knows more about that place than the guv'nor 'imself , ’ he asserted . |
5 | [ To ] Mary Leapor , I award the palm … she writes here with rare skill , reason and imagination on woman in society , knocking askew any easy line-up of ‘ new ’ with ‘ realist ’ by doing so in the general manner of Pope , with whom she has no need to fear comparison . |
6 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
7 | Cogan was a Fifties singer who died tragically young ; but in Burns ' brilliant intermingling of fact and fiction , she lives on into middle age to examine her portrait in the basement of the Tate , meet her most obsessive fan , and discover her strange links with Moors murderer Myra Hindley . |
8 | She could receive more if she lives well into old age . |
9 | She lives now in converted weaving cottages in Kilbarchan , a walled garden already rich in spring colours . |
10 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
11 | Yes , Dorothea thought , I would enjoy her company , she would take me out of myself , for she has never for one moment lost her grip upon life , her grasp of a situation , her confidence . |
12 | She looks round in mock horror . |
13 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
14 | If she wants whatever it is she gets out of this relationship , no one can deny she 's entitled to it . |
15 | She curls up at one end , leaving plenty of room . |
16 | ‘ The only way a girl like you gets on in this world is if she has something worth selling . |
17 | Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows . |
18 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
19 | She delights particularly in this dominance of architecture over furnishing , ‘ a piece of space enclosed simply for the sake of beautiful outline ’ , so that the small dining-table appears as ‘ an odd and insignificant accident ’ . |
20 | She works consistently for American television , on Broadway and in films . |
21 | If she comes out by that hole her only route must be through the cage , in which she is then recaptured . |
22 | Some may not like this idea , because it veers away from established convention , but it 's quicker , plus it saves the hassle of breaking a string peg at an important moment and being left dangling , so to speak . |
23 | It plays heavily on indirectness– intimacy and common understanding . |
24 | cos it refers back to national curriculum . |
25 | Oh no , they and he turns up in some hanging from a chain he 's being cruel to her is n't he ? |
26 | Texas Instruments said the decision to sign the non-exclusive agreement was based on several factors : first , the technology is available now ; second , the ARM core operates at low voltages and offers ‘ the best MIPS per Watt in the industry ’ — approximately 200 MIPS per Watt , compared with the AT&T Co Hobbit at 37 MIPS per Watt ; third , it integrates easily into larger chip designs ; fourth , it provides good price-performance — to buy chips in volume from Advanced RISC would cost less than $30 per unit ; fourth , the chip is tiny — an ARM6L has a die size of 5.9mm square — and there is a strong need in the automotive industry to reduce the size and weight of components . |
27 | Phil Allman , Service Manager at Pest Control London North , never sees his name in print although he contributes regularly to this publication . |
28 | There 's Lawrence now , a left-hander , down to the rear and this one he turns away and it goes straight to short leg and erm , everybody claps up and sits there well , well fielded there by Morris at short leg . |
29 | If no one objects , it goes through without more ado . |
30 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |