Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home .
2 I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ?
3 They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before .
4 He spoke Maa fluently and he had unrivalled connections .
5 So on , for example , the fifteenth of that particular month , er , I 'm in Manchester for the day , I have one meeting at ten o'clock and I have another meeting at three thirty .
6 you know er what in the bible says and er to get together for God put a woman and a man together and they become one flesh you read it , you think you understand what it is , but you do n't really understand until you lose your partner
7 His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response .
8 ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged .
9 His teeth were gritted together and he had dark circles under his eyes .
10 It was a very hard job holding everything together and it required tremendous dedication from everyone concerned .
11 Heather Goodchild , entertainment analyst at credit ratings agency Standard & Poor 's , said yesterday : ‘ MGM 's films just are n't working , their debts are running away and they have major problems in their corporate structure . ’
12 He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’
13 Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink .
14 If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy .
15 And now that was the attitude that that that they they had that er a lot of them , not not everybody of course that just and she had this attitude , erm anybody that had lost their baby were lucky , you see .
16 ‘ I think we are at least as strong as the Oxford crew physically and we have more experience , though the ages of the crews are almost identical .
17 Financially Henry treated his sons generously but he retained full power throughout his dominions .
18 You get on them slowly and they register one weight ; if you jump on them with gusto they register something quite different .
19 Right and they had this bit they 're in these white sailor 's uniform and they 're stripping the gloves off which was really uninteresting but they all looked really , you know , smart and they were saluting .
20 I I saw it somewhere and I got lost track of it .
21 Wilkinson , who has cajoled and bullied to knock Cantona into shape , joked that the language barrier is still there because ‘ If I 'm saying nice things about him he seems to understand — if I suggest he works harder or I say nasty things , he finds that harder to comprehend . ’
22 It was a splendid meeting yesterday and they gave Bonar Law a magnificent reception .
23 I do not count calories any more and I eat three meals a day .
24 Mrs Phillips said the baby did not settle when they were allowed to go home and she expressed continuing concern to a community midwife .
25 Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ?
26 ‘ But he 's not home and I wait all night .
27 If your children have left home and you have more space than you need , you could consider taking in lodgers , either as paying guests or , if your property lends itself to the creation of a separate flatlet , in a tenancy capacity .
28 He kissed her fervently and they stayed that way until the lights went up and the usherettes began moving down the aisles with their trays of icecream .
29 I just bi I went outside , I mean , I was gon na go outside five minutes before and not notice anything , and I went out five minutes later and I heard this water running .
30 You 'll have to sooner or later and I reckon this storm 's set in for hours .
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