Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [coord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing to see but the palmtrees one way And the sea the other way , Nothing to hear but the sound of the surf . |
| 2 | When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood . |
| 3 | Looking ahead , over the instruments , there is nothing to see but the front tyres and the track . |
| 4 | Head buried , nothing to see but the brown velvet belly full of blood , all soft and bloated like a spider 's abdomen . |
| 5 | The centre of Matson was brick-built , a few buildings rising to three storeys , a few of them whitewashed but the rest left the whisky colour of the local clay . |
| 6 | I am in the graveyard where nothing lives but the slow-worm , motionless on the short grass by the path , and the little birds who search among the yews like Elizabeth in the wardrobe . |
| 7 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 8 | and I mean but the quite the majority of them er put their hands up for Paddy Ashdown . |
| 9 | It was there and I mean and the rooms were so small . |
| 10 | I did and I was absolutely amazed at how much stuff I sold and the kind of things people bought . |
| 11 | If I failed and the French caught me I would hang . |
| 12 | I checked and the day seemed to be free , ’ she quavered . |
| 13 | I checked and the Peterborough players with me went for the check . |
| 14 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 15 | I admit you do not see the copies of the letters I send or the reports spies send me . ’ |
| 16 | I want or the rock and roll one . |
| 17 | I did the er there was a an ambulance came down the road in front of a bus you see , and a chap which was on the cor , side the road and he he went like this so I stopped and the ambulance came round and turned into this building site and I and while we were sitting there bang ! |
| 18 | The more celebrated I became the worse I painted and the more false I felt . |
| 19 | I 'd and the words would be I was bored and that 's Cherub saying it , and he said that |
| 20 | It just depends where we 're going cos I do n't know what we 're doing yet So I 'd and the woman 's coming round tonight so I 'll just , sort of , say to her if I can keep it over the weekend I can do a lot more so otherwise I 'll feel a bit bad |
| 21 | For I swagger and I swallow and the earth is my hotel And I chew my meat in heaven and I lash my tail in hell ! |
| 22 | and then someone scores and the guy goes in straight calmly and scores straight away . |
| 23 | But then of course the kind of stories I give and the ones that most people like generally speaking are the accidents I have . |
| 24 | And the faster I danced and the longer I went on , the more pennies I got . |
| 25 | I think he 's , I read and the rain do |
| 26 | I turned and the expletives died on my lips . |
| 27 | ‘ I always felt the pull between loyalty to ICI and a working life I enjoyed and the thought that someone else was looking after my children ’ . |
| 28 | Well I know but the average figure I mean there |
| 29 | I know but the twenty fourth if you came down cos you |
| 30 | I know but the actual , the actual peo the actual people that have to pay for us , such it could be more that erm , the government would actually pay for it and then hospitals would erm fight for the , for the actual er thing |