Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 2 | It was something you could see , you know , I mean a lot of the things I knew anyway and knowing them is a different problem from actually putting them right . |
| 3 | COCA-COLA took over sponsorship of the League Cup in a £2.25 million deal yesterday and confirmed they are the ‘ real thing ’ for football . |
| 4 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
| 5 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 6 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 7 | But an English ex-social worker has come forward after seeing her picture in TODAY and claimed she is a youngster he once counselled . |
| 8 | You could n't come and , you come bouncing in here and say you were a blacksmith . |
| 9 | I run up the hill , seeing movement ahead and assuming it 's a bird or a rabbit or something , and almost run straight into a man . |
| 10 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |