Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We became good friends and I remember his comments one day when we were discussing the ever-rising cost of living ; Lawren said , wrinkling that high forehead under the white mane of hair , ‘ This high cost of living worries me ; one of these days , if it continues to rise , I 'll have to dip into capital ! ’ |
| 2 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 3 | Catherine and me gave you Coke and I gave you loads this morning . |
| 4 | The crushing weariness was a formidable enemy , though , and she felt her eyelids drooping as if they 'd been weighted . |
| 5 | And we bought her beads this time . |
| 6 | Fish from the Water Tamar be pretty eating as all the world knows and we offer your worships this tribute according to ancient customs of our ancestors ’ . |
| 7 | Choreographers are creating much more complicated and longer enchaînements , particularly for their pas de deux , and they give their dancers greater freedom to break the strictly conventional rules of class-room technique . |
| 8 | This threw George , and he got his lines wrong . |
| 9 | There was no other traffic and he kept his headlights undimmed . |
| 10 | His body shuddered , and then his tolerance disintegrated and he wrenched his arms free and wrapped them round her , holding her hard against him . |
| 11 | He turned towards her , but the blankets entangled his legs and he fought his eyes open in irritation . |
| 12 | Like the election , that was another occasion where his nerve held — and he proved his critics wrong . |
| 13 | Indeed , the authorities made no move against the organization during the Second World War and it continued its activities unmolested . |
| 14 | It gave her confidence a boost to know that she had spotted him , and it made her actions easy . |
| 15 | The MG was a seasoned trooper , steadily eating up the distance , and it left her thoughts free to wander where they chose . |
| 16 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 17 | I still did n't say anything , but I had my eyes open and I looked at Stok calmly . |
| 18 | But I know her eyes sure on , worried , alert , reading me . |
| 19 | I was going to tell him what he could do with his job but I thought better of it an' I took my cards all polite like . |
| 20 | The language may sound archaic , ’ he commented , ‘ but he got his facts right . |
| 21 | A Soviet commentator explained that ‘ officially the USA will not take part in the new military bloc , but it promises its participants all-round assistance by supplying them arms and training their military personnel ’ . |
| 22 | The story does not tell us what the Israelites had to eat in Egypt , but it gives our imaginations enough information to work on . |
| 23 | You can leave out the space between OR and a preceding constant , but it makes your programs difficult to read . |