Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 4 | What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ? |
| 5 | When people ask me about the deeds of some of our very great airmen , and I go right throughout the war on both sides , there are shining examples brighter than anything in the constellation that come to mind ; I think of Cheshire 's 100 sorties and , no less important , Fraser Barron — a little Kiwi not yet 21 with two DSOs , two DFCs and a DFM — Pathfinder squadron commander , killed with his deputy Master Bomber on one of the interdiction targets before the Invasion , and a host of others , I can think of half-a-hundred , but I have never met anyone — In fact I have never walked in the shadow of anyone — braver than Buster . |
| 6 | ‘ And I go right round the table . |
| 7 | ‘ Sergeant Jennings here will make some tea , then she 'll stay with you while Mr Morgan and I go over to the stables . |
| 8 | ‘ So , in the meantime — ’ it was almost as though he 'd read her mind ! ‘ — I suggest that you and I go back to the party . |
| 9 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 10 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 11 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
| 12 | He is a forestry expert and has a small stud as a hobby , so now the stables are being used again and I wake up to the clop-clop of horses ' hooves on the cobbles in the morning . |
| 13 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One day an elderly lady with a hearing aid came in and I was doing her hair , chatting away and making her laugh , and I cut right through the wire ! |
| 16 | I trip on something in the ferns , twisting in mid-air as my ankle gives underneath me and I slam backwards into the ground , winding myself . |
| 17 | I walk out to the bus , I get on the bus at the end of Care Street , I walk right along Care Street , right up Dawsons Street , brisk walk and then I 'm walking around the garage , I do n't do that much walking now , the bloody car , but I take a walk at lunchtime and I walk down to the bar , walking , if you walk , that would be total couple of miles a day |
| 18 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 19 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 20 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 23 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 24 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 25 | so that they are fully trained and ready to handle the problems that might arise erm there is , however , cause for some er optimism and I refer specifically to the recreational page from the Estuaries Consultation Document from English Nature and in one of their er proposals and objectives they say encouraging self regulation and observance of Code of Practice by local clubs and groups to avoid clon conflict with and or disturbance to other users including nature conservation interests . |
| 26 | When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold . |
| 27 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 28 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 29 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 30 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |