Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . |
| 2 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 3 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 4 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 5 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 6 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 7 | Whether I have conveyed anything of the delight we took in his company I do n't know and his exact words may have been even better but the magic of his style returns to me and I had another giggle writing this . |
| 8 | My colleagues and I spent many hours discussing this issue , when we first sat down to decide how we were going to approach the running of our company . |
| 9 | Weeks passed , and I spent many hours studying Flint 's map and dreaming of treasure . |
| 10 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
| 11 | It is a particularly painful spot to be kicked and I spent some time hopping round the byre and cursing in a fervent whisper . |
| 12 | ECHO FROM THE PAST In 1980 Marlies and I spent three days travelling with Senator Edward Kennedy in his motorcade during the presidential primary campaign . |
| 13 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ He followed up with a memo and I sent one back insisting he withdrew his allegations . |
| 15 | In any case , for all Mr Graham 's scepticism , I can remember he and I spending many evenings trying to put our fingers on the constitution of this ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 16 | And I blame married women returning to the job market . |
| 17 | and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday |
| 18 | After what has happened I do not think this girl will be able easily to adjust to a normal teenage existence for some time and I think any order forbidding her to see this man again would not only be unrealistic , but would place an intolerable burden on a young girl who , it seems to me , has had quite enough strain already . |
| 19 | She catalogues some of the services guests now take for granted , and which require electronic equipment working behind the scenes . |
| 20 | Suppose the Universe really was like that , and you had two astronauts leaving the Earth at the same time in opposite directions , one from the North Pole , the other from the South . |
| 21 | We asked you to tell us why your dad was Top of the Pops and you kept those letters pouring in . |
| 22 | We asked you to tell us why your dad was Top of the Pops and you kept those letters pouring in . |
| 23 | Shows you , yeah , you got boxes showing you where things are on the spreadsheets , and you got some tags saying what those are . |
| 24 | Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark . |
| 25 | And then three dice , electronic dice are thrown , and you get three numbers showing up on the screen . |
| 26 | Course , they had n't had lorries in them days , they drive them on the road and you see old shepherd coming along with a couple of dogs and goodness knows how many sheep ! |
| 27 | But look at individuals , rather than averages , and you see interesting things happening to some of the peasants ' lives . |
| 28 | There are some first-class people in charge , men such as Peter Browne and Laurie Kelly , and you find ex-TVH men popping up at stadia all over the world to give you a shout . |
| 29 | It effectively charges it because if you 've got six thousand allowances and you withdraw that amount putting it against the total income it means that you 're actually paying tax on those by deduction . |
| 30 | And who wants spotty people deciding anyone 's pay rise ? |