Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's two thirty or we go now or we go in about an hour but we ca n't go later I should think , can we ? |
| 2 | ‘ A suspension controller malfunctioned and once that was fixed and I got out again the car caught fire when an oil cooler failed . |
| 3 | and I took up quite a few , thinned them out and my sister |
| 4 | But he countered : ‘ The supporter was saying terrible things to me and I went back up the tunnel because I wanted to have a good look at the face of the person who was abusing me . |
| 5 | You know we have a considerable holding of er , land immediately adjacent to the reasonable shopping centre there and erm , if and when things become buoyant again and I went down there a couple of weeks and I was rather impressed by , by the look of the area , then clearly land prices go up and we have the capacity to , to generate more profit . |
| 6 | Stuart and I went out together a few times . |
| 7 | I went to this party at Mr Midwinter 's and it 's a wonderful house with footmen and things , and I went in just the sort of clothes I 'd wear for a party here in Helsinki . |
| 8 | She lives with her mam and dad , a cleaner and welder respectively , and does a bit of housework , though her mam still does the cooking , and she goes out once a week . |
| 9 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
| 10 | And we agreed to do that , and we put out quite a lot of publicity . |
| 11 | Fly ran the Hackney branch of a chainstore opticians and we went back quite a long way together as OADFs go . |
| 12 | This seemed a suitable area on which to work , and we proceeded in precisely the same way as before , with Sylvia imagining the situation under hypnosis and then going off to do her homework for however long was necessary . |
| 13 | ‘ Pitches were uncovered than and we played on quite a few tracks that were damp , ’ Tribe says . |
| 14 | And they stick in just the right places to cause a new layer to be added to the crystal just like the layer below . |
| 15 | ‘ Hell , you 've had experience very recently of handling some tricky situations , taking instant decisions , and they came out just the way we wanted them . |
| 16 | The foreman of the Lord Warden 's Forest Rangers was with him and they came out twice a day to the lip of Steep Ridgery , early in the morning and again towards sunset , to look out at the smoke . |
| 17 | Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme : |
| 18 | They had to go and give him some support and they put up quite a good fight . |
| 19 | And he shoots down dead the arithmetic-bird , |
| 20 | Put one of the little fellows in a box and tap on the table with a pencil and he behaves in exactly the same way . |
| 21 | Erm and so I , I believe that er the resolution in fact on the order paper will stand er and if we were to remove the first two lines er of Mr 's erm resolution that the County Council he represents if necessary that in a full , a full public enquiry into the fifth terminial at Heathrow , if we get that and graft on the rest of his words er to the resolution er on the Chairman er that will do two things er it reads er the quality of our Officers are suggesting and it picks up again a very important comments er that he makes er regarding post , er , er something that is public erm , er and that it , it meets media and the other improve that 's something for the district office report . |
| 22 | He could smile to order or smile for real , with real pleasure , and it came out just the same , it came out so beautiful that you were sure not to notice the difference . |
| 23 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 24 | Gets it across , controls with his right foot , strikes with his left and it cannons back off a defender and gets it away . |
| 25 | As long ago as 1975 a Home Office White Paper ‘ Computers and Privacy ’ said , unambiguously , that ‘ the time has come when those who use computers to handle personal information , however responsible they are , can no longer remain the sole judges of whether their own systems adequately safeguard privacy ’ , and it set out clearly the special features of computerised information systems which had implications for privacy . |
| 26 | It was also useless to pretend that corruption at elections was one-sided ; the scale was far smaller than thirty years earlier , but it went on just the same in both parties . |
| 27 | Overnight , the fighting calmed down a little but it picked up again the next morning and raged on throughout the day . |