Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 2 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 3 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 4 | I eventually tracked down the ward sister , who was wrestling with an intravenous drip that had collapsed . |
| 5 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 6 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 7 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 8 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 9 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I only write down the figures , really , but I do find it fascinating . ’ |
| 11 | I , I , I , I did it , but I only missed out the two people that were away . |
| 12 | ‘ I called the NRA and they sent someone down to soak up the oil from the surface with sheets of foam . |
| 13 | Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ? |
| 14 | oh no , I just pick out the kidneys . |
| 15 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 16 | Can I just finish off the front I can do that tonight , tonight please ? |
| 17 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 18 | They even escorted me to the school gates sometimes — and I just bunked out the other way . |
| 19 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 20 | I do n't mind , I do n't mind so long as I just get out a bit on , into town and |
| 21 | Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ? |
| 22 | I just brought up the files . |
| 23 | Erm tt I think , oh dear , I saw an advert in the paper I think to , to take out a savings plan or something and I just signed up a , a form and back it came . |
| 24 | I just let out a giggle of disbelief which made the old gecko who ran the class flutter his ruff at me in disapproval ; I calmed him with a quip and continued the negotiations with my round and financially tenacious new chum . |
| 25 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 26 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 27 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 28 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought perhaps this year , if I just rustle up a few quiches , buy some French bread — ’ |
| 30 | Can I just pick up a a couple of points please . |