Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose your new washing machine is on the blink ; or your neighbour puts up a fence inside your boundary ; or you trip over a paving stone and break your leg . |
| 2 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 3 | Mum and I get on a lot better these days . |
| 4 | Above the chasms we stopped and I kicked out a shelf for the camera bags . |
| 5 | I sent off my $5 and I got back a list of occupations : TV repairman , shoe salesman , musician , fireman , axe murderer . |
| 6 | I got myself a couple of sausages on sticks , a hunk of crusty bread , and another Scotch , and I took over a pint of bitter for Seddon . |
| 7 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 8 | In the spring of 1940 John Avison and I rounded up a group of like-minded radio people with the object of renting a large house as far away as possible from downtown Vancouver . |
| 9 | I saw the plant growing happily in a garden in Virginia , and I brought back a cutting … |
| 10 | Patsy and I corresponded over a period of four months . |
| 11 | The door began to close and I put out a hand to stop it . |
| 12 | ‘ I noticed that a few counties had decided on June 6 and I sent out a letter pointing out that the recommended date was the second Saturday in June . |
| 13 | My home club is Coombe Hill in Kingston , Surrey , and I play off a handicap of 17 . |
| 14 | And I picked up a pack of contraceptives . |
| 15 | And I picked up a load of washing the other day and put it in the washing machine and I washed it . |
| 16 | ‘ Steve and I teamed up a while back . |
| 17 | My wife and I saved over a number of years to get enough money together for a decent Land Rover . |
| 18 | He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune . |
| 19 | You spend twenty minutes on it every night , and you scratch off a layer of dead skin . |
| 20 | The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made . |
| 21 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 22 | And you take out a box of stuff and they 're sorting through the stuff and you 're like , excuse me , and you 're trying to get your tables out |
| 23 | Suspiciousness becomes almost an instinct , powerful and all-pervasive : ‘ When you go out on a Sunday afternoon [ in the country ] , say , and you look over a bridge at the stream , you can not help yourself . |
| 24 | I 'll empty the pockets , and you stand back a bit . |
| 25 | They provided a bus , you had a bus ride and you picked up a couple of guides er , who during the night would take you over the er take you over the er Pyrenees , er over the mountains er , the Pyrenees , you see becau er you 're in need of a guide because the er the frontier posts etcetera etcetera were shut , were closed . |
| 26 | This may be illustrated by considering the position of a man on average wages whose wife does n't earn , who has two children under 11 , and who takes out a mortgage of three times annual income . |
| 27 | In a despairing sweep her gaze ran over the dress , and she bit back a groan . |
| 28 | In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh . |
| 29 | The warmth in his voice reached out to her , thawing the numb , frozen parts deep inside , and she choked back a sob . |
| 30 | And she sent off a turtle-dove to ask help from the old marshwife . |