Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I 'll stick me neck out and go for Leeds 3 Swindon 1 ( pen probably ) just to spoil my record ; - ] . |
| 2 | To this , Joseph protested : ‘ If I could , I would take my heart out and hold it in my hand and let the Great Father and the white people see that there is nothing in it but kind feelings and love for him and them . ’ |
| 3 | And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap . |
| 4 | Is there anyone in the world who could make my hair straight and stay straight ? |
| 5 | I shook my hair back and waved my arms above my head as Pike mopped and mowed in front of me and the band struck up an impromptu tune . |
| 6 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 7 | I remember planting my foot down and hearing a snap . |
| 8 | ‘ I was n't getting any respect , any money ; I could n't even get hold of Richard when I wanted to , so I decided to put my foot down and straighten things out . |
| 9 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 10 | She understood my sister perfectly and looked after us all very well . |
| 11 | I looked at my watch instead and stopped every fifteen minutes for a rest . |
| 12 | It is a shame in many ways that Robert Harris ' Fatherland ( Arrow ) has such stiff competition in the same area , for judging by the hardcover success I , along with Arrow , have stuck my neck out and made it a Giant . |
| 13 | And I think it 's very important that people can come and talk to you and some representative 's of the board because there is unrest Tom and I 'm not prepared to stick my neck out and say in what quarter this lies but it can be got over it can be ironed out because running a theatre is to do with team spirit and that team spirit get 's conveyed to the public . |
| 14 | Ah it 's not someth you know , it 's not s something that I 'm prepared to stick my neck out and say , Look you know , I I do n't think that word ought to appear anywhere . |
| 15 | There are even a few who I 'm sure do n't have a care in the world , although I 'm almost prepared to stick my neck out and say that they 're in the minority . |
| 16 | I will stick my neck out and say that he will be the first superbike home , in at least one race , with Mitchell taking the other . |
| 17 | So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years . |
| 18 | I can put the Varsity match out of my mind now and concentrate on improving my international ambitions . ’ |
| 19 | When surveyors started sizing up her land , ‘ I got my shotgun out and showed them the gate , ' she said . |
| 20 | Within the first month of my being involved with the gay movement I met Angus , who became my lover then and remained my lover for ten years . |
| 21 | I told him that your man had been annoyin' me with his ‘ is-that-a-he-or-a-she ? ’ questions so I threatened to take my prick out and show it to him . |
| 22 | He came and put his arm round my shoulders then and led me gently towards the door . |
| 23 | The young Pathan had guarded my car zealously and got my thanks and the second half of his reward . |
| 24 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 25 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 26 | I shut my eyes then and went to work . |
| 27 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 28 | ‘ It was exactly semi-retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material . |
| 29 | It was inevitable that I was fully occupied by my fear rather than watching an Egyptian film , Abla and Anter , a classic Bedouin love story . |
| 30 | Er I I us I used to go by half past five , have my tea early and did n't come out till about nine o'clock . |