Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 2 | Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ? |
| 3 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 4 | Go to a hairdresser , ask him or her to come up with a style that suits you , your hair , your lifestyle , and emerge looking and feeling great . |
| 5 | It rolls up , it , it 's retractable inside the body or it drops off after an orgasm |
| 6 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 7 | Eventually the Goblin runs out of energy and collapses in an exhausted pile with a silly grin on his face , or he crashes straight into a tree or other obstacle and ends up throttling himself with his chain . |
| 8 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 9 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
| 10 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 11 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 12 | I could n't let this frail old man go In there and maybe get knocked down and savaged , and I looked around for a means of protection . |
| 13 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 14 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 15 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 16 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
| 17 | She went back into the house and I waited outside for a while enjoying the cool breeze . |
| 18 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
| 19 | The house and I waited silently in a sea of insect sound . |
| 20 | There was a moment when I was convinced I was going to die but at last a long wailing respiration came to my aid and I struggled painfully into a sitting position . |
| 21 | My wife and I returned recently from a visit to our son in South Australia , and whilst there we paid several visits to the local RAFA branch . |
| 22 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 23 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 24 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 25 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 26 | We went to Ireland for the summer and our visit there was great fun ; Brian and I drove about in a donkey-cart , fished for eels , and shot rabbits with a 410 . |
| 27 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 28 | Dr Tehyi Hsieh took five curtain calls after that lecture , and I went back-stage for an interview afterwards . |
| 29 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 30 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |