Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 2 | Now a young man in the prime of his life is dead , and no-one has given us any official advice or information . |
| 3 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 4 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 5 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 6 | By 9.15 Callahan and Ted still had n't showed at Jocko 's , and I 'd forgotten my webbed gloves . |
| 7 | I 've taken note of the hints given in Starting Block and I 've organized my hard disk into 19 subdirectories and up to 6 levels of sub-subdirectories . |
| 8 | And I 've noticed it this year more markedly than ever before , a certain resignation to unemployment when they leave school . |
| 9 | I HAVE been a patient in a Trust hospital since before it moved out of the NHS in May , and I 've witnessed what that means . |
| 10 | ‘ And I 've asked it nary a word till we got here , so as you could hear the story as well . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been asking all the questions , and I 've done my best to answer them . |
| 12 | You left him for me to tend , with never a word , and I 've done my best for him . |
| 13 | And I 've given him that . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not manage without you either and I 've given you all the time I intend to , ’ he whispered against her mouth . |
| 15 | When you 're preparing what you 're going to say , use notes , and I 've given you some guidance in the handout on using notes . |
| 16 | And I 've given you special stuff for nighttime to keep the back of your throat clear at night . |
| 17 | And I 've kept my British one . |
| 18 | And I 've found it harder to cope with in the last two or three years . |
| 19 | It 's a bad winter this one and I 've known them all here , man and lad . ’ |
| 20 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 21 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |
| 22 | and I 've had it three year . |
| 23 | I like to when I 'm up there , there 's only one place open , I got up there , you see , and I 've got it all in little bags and that so that . |
| 24 | I 'm so glad you had this conversation with me while I 've been miked up and I 've got it all taped . |
| 25 | and I 've got my best all in the sideboard |
| 26 | ‘ But I 've been travelling hopefully in the meanwhile , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've got my first catalogue and two books ready . ’ |
| 27 | Her husband , Prince George of Denmark , was a large , hard-drinking , notoriously dull ex-soldier , of whom Charles II had observed , ‘ I 've tried him drunk and I 've tried him sober but there 's nothing in him . ’ |
| 28 | And I 've forgotten what young 'uns like , see . ’ |
| 29 | And I 've enjoyed it all very much , ’ said Fribble , quite seriously . |
| 30 | And I had thought you twenty … ’ |