Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb base] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 3 | And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk . |
| 4 | If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby . |
| 5 | If that 's your reason , or you want a fresh plan , |
| 6 | She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement . |
| 7 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 8 | Or they have a little book where they can look it up . |
| 9 | Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache . |
| 10 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 11 | So then they have to fill out all the forms all over again and I get a stern warning against giving false information to police officers ! |
| 12 | The shows on that 1987 reunion tour are among the best we 've done and I remember a cracking night in the Olympia which would have been the last time we visited Dublin . |
| 13 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 14 | The anger goes , no point in being mad , and I remember a tasty bit of gum I 've got stashed in the classroom , and I fancy it . |
| 15 | There have been lots of others , of course , and I remember a lovely beast called Daisy who would have been grand . |
| 16 | And I remember a whole boat-load of these young Irish lads and lasses coming aboard you know , weeping and wailing . |
| 17 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 18 | And I mean a great thrill he was to us , he cried come here and see this and here was among all his little moles , he had a white one a pure white mole . |
| 19 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 20 | And I the same for , when Lindsey was a wee girl and I mean a wee girl like , I 'd pick wee things for her I 'd of loved my mummy to buy me . |
| 21 | Get 'em off your chest ; you 'll feel better for it and I 've a broad back . " |
| 22 | It does piss you off admittedly when scum are on so much , and I 've a sneaking feeling that Leeds have still not been forgiven in some parts of the press for being close enough to sneak the title when scum fucked up ( due to Fuckerson 's crap team selection ) . |
| 23 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |
| 24 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 25 | If I get the result I wanted there is consolidation rather than extension of my committee skills , but if I do not get the result I wanted then I have learned something and I form a new hypothesis about my next interjection strengthened by this new learning . |
| 26 | Nutty raised an army of smelly Brits while I was away ( present company excepted ) and I fear a civil war . |
| 27 | He is a priest and I play a young girl called Diane who he has an affair with . |
| 28 | That 's something that I strongly support and my Party does , and I believe a vast majority of the country support . |
| 29 | I got to sit down after that , and I find a wooden crate . |
| 30 | Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby . |