Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 2 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 3 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 4 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 5 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 6 | The last one standing would be cheered on until he too dropped . |
| 7 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 8 | Do n't look to the right , to the left , or over your shoulder , but concentrate on where you 're going . |
| 9 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 10 | How you met her , how she got on when she first came over here … ’ |
| 11 | You know , I should think somewhere where you are |
| 12 | Do n't eliminate somewhere because it sounds ridiculous or out of the question . |
| 13 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 14 | He or she will be obliged to wait politely as you go about your task , which you can time to complete at the same moment you recover the skill of breathing in and out . |
| 15 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 16 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 17 | He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees . |
| 18 | She fought bitterly as he came back to her . |
| 19 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 20 | Fairley asked politely as they took the floor . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll stay right where you are until I 've made you a hot drink . |
| 22 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 23 | He did not say it loudly and she was not sure she had heard right so she continued . |
| 24 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 25 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 26 | It goes on when you 're actually preparing statements , affidavits , pleadings , all those things which will eventually be used in court . |
| 27 | Oh yeah , but I mean it just goes on when you need it all new . |
| 28 | Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’ |
| 29 | The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives . |
| 30 | Boston The list goes on until we get to a total of a hundred and thirty million . |