Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 2 | Now you 've made it impossible for me to carry out an interview despite the fact I 've been extremely patient " |
| 3 | He liked numbers ; they were funny little squiggles and he liked the way everyone agreed when an answer was right although he did not understand why . |
| 4 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 5 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 6 | So I opened this one with practised diffidence … and , if it brought neither emotional nor financial reward , it caused me to dash off an angry — ‘ Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — letter within the hour . |
| 7 | I fought down an impulse to kiss it . |
| 8 | So I got down an entry , eating it . |
| 9 | I changed down an octave on ‘ … time , and the living is eas … ’ and up again on ‘ … sy . ' ’ |
| 10 | Suddenly , someone let out an enormous burp . |
| 11 | I fixed up an interview with him . |
| 12 | I put up an entirely illegal barbed wire fence . |
| 13 | I put in an appearance at Ingard House to show that I was still busy about the audit , and had a word with Henniker . |
| 14 | So I put out an advert for a guitarist . |
| 15 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |
| 16 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 17 | I pass on an interesting snippet that I read on a computer news net . |
| 18 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 19 | But of course , I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays . |
| 20 | I spent over an hour checking out all those that were for sale but the only one I kept coming back to had displayed in blue on gold down its sides , ‘ The biggest barrow in the world ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ She wants me with her , although a great friend , Lady Bartlett , goes with her sons , and I believe too an aunt of mine . |
| 22 | Erm yeah I suppose about an hour , zing zing zing zing , it 's got a really , it 's got some really gay carols in . |
| 23 | I felt then an ecstasy of joy at this incomparable beauty . |
| 24 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 25 | I struggled off an absolute wreck . ’ |
| 26 | I reached out an arm in the darkness and found my pile of loose coins , placed , as usual , to the left of the groundsheet . |
| 27 | ‘ Jeffrey and I go back an awful long way , and it makes a lot of sense for him to be published by us on both sides of the Atlantic , ’ Mr Bell commented . |
| 28 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 29 | So I took out an insurance policy against a possible breakdown in the production . |
| 30 | She 's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this . |