Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | If she wants whatever it is she gets out of this relationship , no one can deny she 's entitled to it . |
| 6 | ‘ The only way a girl like you gets on in this world is if she has something worth selling . |
| 7 | If she comes out by that hole her only route must be through the cage , in which she is then recaptured . |
| 8 | According to Axelrod and Hamilton , ‘ It turns out in many cases that if a fig wasp entering a young fig does not pollinate enough flowers for seeds and instead lays eggs in almost all , the tree cuts off the developing fig at an early stage . |
| 9 | Oh no , they and he turns up in some hanging from a chain he 's being cruel to her is n't he ? |
| 10 | If no one objects , it goes through without more ado . |
| 11 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 12 | ‘ The men wo n't come in 'ere if they 're on strike , ‘ specially if it goes on fer any length of time . |
| 13 | It goes on in more detail but that is the basis of it . |
| 14 | And then it goes up under any way . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , though she may not recognise the name it goes by from any catalogue of thou-shalt-nots , our Riva knows an abomination when she sees one . |
| 16 | I therefore put it to him that he has really now er a definite choice , he can seek to resist most of these amendments and I have n't a slightest doubt they 'll be put into the Bill er the Bill will be drastically altered thereby er and when it goes back to another place nobody quite knows er wh what will happen to it , or he can use his very considerable powers of conciliation er by taking a little time for further consideration . |
| 17 | He goes around with another Taig , a bad wee feller who runs with terrorists , called Mallachy O'Rourke . |
| 18 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 19 | ‘ As Mr. Pannick says , it cries out for some explanation from the board . |
| 20 | The car 's fifteen years old , it stands out in all weathers , and the undercoat 's still intact . ’ |
| 21 | And in fact , when the river rises they it drops down onto that house , and the house next door . |
| 22 | It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing . |
| 23 | Well I 'm actually in my own office but it joins on to another office |
| 24 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 25 | I do not know what the people back in Rushcliffe think about him when he messes about in this way . |
| 26 | However , says Freud , ideally , morality and social order should be based , not on the pleasure principle , but on the reality principle , and , and , and he ends up with this book invoking the idea that science should replace erm , religion in , in this respect . |
| 27 | From the fact that it leads on to all sorts of other questions , we can reasonably infer that many of the justifications given in the literature are indeed question-begging . |
| 28 | The second concern is that evaluation is largely a wasted exercise unless it leads on to some action . |
| 29 | Whether he stays on beyond that point is open to conjecture , but for the moment Roxburgh is very much the man in charge of a Scottish team who produced one of their better performances at Aberdeen . |
| 30 | It backs on to another property owned by a professional photographer-friend , Hazel . |