Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 2 | ‘ And I 've pointed out the inadequacies of the underbidders , ’ said Mr Lilley blandly , in a reference to the Korean underbidder , Hyundai . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 4 | yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why |
| 5 | d' ya know it 's funny , on a Wednesday when I go , when they 've gone home and I 've tidied up a bit |
| 6 | You have n't opened a bottle of wine , you 've got one there , and I 've brought in a bottle of wine . |
| 7 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 8 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 9 | And I have averaged out the changes over all the various sections of the A sixty one . |
| 10 | I have noticed , once the fish have begun feeding and I have set up a steady rhythm with the swimfeeder , that the crucial time for getting bites is up to thirty seconds after the ‘ feeder has hit the surface . |
| 11 | ‘ Clare has a copy of the paper now , and I have brought in a couple of extra copies ; so perhaps the dinosaur people , at least , might like to have a look at it and see what they think . |
| 12 | You can already manage horses better than any man I know — with the possible exception of Tom here — and you 've picked up a good general knowledge of farming . |
| 13 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 14 | And you 've worked out the audience . |
| 15 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |
| 16 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 17 | César Gavira Trujillo , 43 , who had held office as Finance Minister and Interior Minister under the current President , Virgilio Barco Vargas , and who had taken over the election campaign of Luis Carlos Galán Sarmineto after the latter 's assassination on Aug. 18 , 1989 [ see p. 36844 ] , received an estimated 60 per cent of the vote and comfortably defeated his five rivals . |
| 18 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 19 | It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club . |
| 20 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 21 | And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint . |
| 22 | Market Square and she had put on a thick pullover . |
| 23 | This project has received much local support and she has set up a group of people who will organise it long term . |
| 24 | she can only go round with two sticks and she gets er while Beryl 's here in house but erm the brave little kid she er did a degree in erm art and costume design , you know , dress design with a erm and she 's set up a good business at home . |
| 25 | ‘ The Space study required for the national curriculum is based largely on the library , and we have built up the tasks together , with an emphasis on group work , ’ said a head of science . |
| 26 | And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it . |
| 27 | Manpower productivity has continued to rise and we have brought down the price of electricity in real terms since 1958 when the CEGB was established . ’ |
| 28 | so he goes oh what the hell and they shovel tea down him and erm he starts throwing up and , what happened is that when he , when he gets like cut down they ta take him back to the room and they put them in their boxer shorts just sitting there and they 've wired up a mouse trap to like their their |
| 29 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 30 | Perhaps — no , not perhaps , but because McAllister , with all her youthful ebullience and charm , was in his house , she had revived something in him which he did not want to feel and he had called up the demon to assuage it — no , to kill it . |