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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ How you gwine ter keep deh Possum in his feedbox when I brings in deh Chinas and blackmen ? ’
2	the girls of my school have to take the place entirely of the mother of the family ; the families are generally large ; the woman goes out in the morning , she works in a pickle house , if she is a better class woman she goes out charring , or she goes out step cleaning during the day and the little girl takes the place of the mother of the family .
3	How to give such support is the crux of the problem , Ms Hewitt muses as she heads back south .
4	The faces around her suppliant , wary — she is in a benevolent lull , she measures out wit and wisdom .
5	It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured .
6	Then she calls out compass directions or degrees .
7	Her name , she says , is Elena ; her dark eyes gleam with gay desperation , an impression fuelled by the way she tosses back glass after glass of sparkling wine .
8	The darkness of the beginning of the poem is suddenly illuminated to a ‘ low stream-line brightness ’ towards the end when she picks up speed and moves from a misty , black and yet dignified depression to a kind of elation .
9	She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten .
10	Margarit 's attention is sharply focused , however , as she brings on stage a small mound of straw .
11	and had control over Mrs with his stupid maid , whereas it 's sort of reversed , cos she has power over him cos she brings out character .
12	We goes up town the following week then to get and I forget what I was looking for , oh it was I was looking for your blouse
13	Well really , what I 'm trying to tell the children is that plants need water , it drinks up water in order to live .
14	( No answer , he looks out front . )
15	Yep cos it 's poisonous it kills off sort of virtually all life
16	It rules out incitement to violence and threats of armed action ( what Mr de Klerk calls ‘ war talk ’ ) .
17	Open verdict : Family of barn fire victim say it rules out suicide .
18	This is not to say it rules out action , but it fails to grasp the relation of action to capitalism .
19	It becomes oddly insulting , not only because it rules out appreciation of beautiful souls lurking behind plain faces , but also because the kind of admiration then given to the beautiful woman begins to assume that her equally lovely nature is sweet , kind , gentle and unselfish — an image of passive , yielding femininity .
20	For example , he reels out evidence that the Government are doing a wonderful job .
21	For instance it buys up stock which is nearing its redemption date , so as not to have to make large repayments over a short period of time .
22	It creeps up insidiously ; it creeps up step by step ; and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that [ freedom ] has gone …
23	IT TAKES UP GARDENING .
24	First , it takes up water and swells after ingestion so , taken before meals , it exerts a satiating effect and may decrease energy intake .
25	Well we wo n't be able to eat it then , it takes over night to set .
26	He backs up Mill 's claim that he was acting in self defence .
27	STUART BARNES will have England and New Zealand firmly in his sights when he takes on world champions Australia at Twickenham today .
28	Catch the great British Bulldog as he takes on brother-in-law Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart .
29	He said it opens up Teesside as an area for inward investment from the NorthWest and Leeds and will help expand the catchment area for the new universities .
30	He said it opens up Teesside as an area for inward investment from the North-West and Leeds and will help expand the catchment area for the new universities .