Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confronted with Donna 's exuberant wardrobe , she realized there were only two courses open to her : either she took it on the chin ( ‘ straight spine , old girl , ’ ) , or she slunk away and refused to answer the phone when Donna called to see why she had n't been met . |
| 2 | Secondly , the professional may insist upon controlling the work that he or she does rather than allowing the administrator to impose control . |
| 3 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 4 | When the ‘ meaning ’ theist believes , he or she lives within and reacts to the same world as the unbeliever . |
| 5 | ‘ If I cry , he gets so angry that I ca n't bear it ’ , said another , ‘ and I go away and find somewhere by myself where I can go on crying ’ . |
| 6 | There 's this flower shop not far from the house , and I go there and buy summat every week . |
| 7 | Then he turned away and went to sleep and I lay there and wept , feeling an absolute failure ’ . |
| 8 | She was dressed in one of the outfits , and I thought well that suits you down to the ground ! |
| 9 | The sense was neither here nor there , but oh the words came easy and I breathed again and ate again . |
| 10 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 11 | and I went there and worked with the toddlers and er and then I worked in the maternity side of it |
| 12 | Yeah once I 'd got there , they 'd offered me it er and I went home and thought about it actually thought about having to work for them , you know , not just |
| 13 | It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house . |
| 14 | We had talked books and Thomas and I left together and went on talking books . |
| 15 | We were not even properly docked before Lorne and I leapt ashore and headed for our favourite Chinese restaurant . |
| 16 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 17 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 18 | The various attendants and hangers-on departed at great speed , and Abu , Lorne and I rose abruptly and began backing away into the warong . |
| 19 | Your opponent performs a roundhouse kick to the head and you slide forwards and drop your shoulders , throwing your weight forwards to free the rear leg . |
| 20 | " And you go ahead and take the rest of these cigarettes , why do n't you ? |
| 21 | Those are the people who commit most car crime and who take away and drive away most motor vehicles . |
| 22 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 23 | And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief . |
| 24 | ‘ Damned if I know , ’ I said truthfully and she said OK and See Ya and hung up . |
| 25 | In a shower of diamonds , in a dust cloud of shattered stars , in a bee swarm of broken glass , battered and bleeding , she was hurled face downward onto her own mattress and she lay there and screamed with fear and relief . |
| 26 | He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become . |
| 27 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 28 | She sighed heavily , as if she 'd often met this concrete wall of misconception , and she leaned forward and looked at him intensely . |
| 29 | It was as though a voice had actually said the words aloud , and she moved sharply and leaned against the window to stare blankly at the room . |
| 30 | The phone rang , and she rose lethargically and went to answer it . |