Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brent Council : a minority Tory administration kept in power by the two-member ‘ Democratic Labour Party ’ , two Africanist former Labour councillors , one of whom has publicly praised Idi Amin and is under investigation by the fraud squad . |
| 2 | This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it . |
| 3 | See I 've already got Ron a big tin of Liquorice Allsorts . |
| 4 | I 'm gon na fix that , no do I 'll , yeah I 'll bring some from home cos I wan I wan na nip home for er an hour and I 'll er I 've just seen Anne . |
| 5 | ha , how can I say , what , whe when you 're talking about fa , I mean fast moving consumer good are fast |
| 6 | No , again it 's not quite Times , which is the pity , because it was the last repository of hand-set monotype , I mean individually cast monotype display headlines erm and Fi ligatures . |
| 7 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |
| 8 | People I met never became friends , people never spoke in those days at all , in fact , I found that if you did try to speak they always ran away . |
| 9 | In other places such as the street I make short dabbing strokes with my little finger . |
| 10 | In other places such as the street I make short dabbing strokes with my little finger . |
| 11 | I got home to find Kenneth hunched over his desk engrossed in a pile of newly purchased books on the subject of lymphoma and a medical dictionary to help him understand the terminology . |
| 12 | A little awkwardly she explained , ‘ I was going to wait until I got home to tell Paul that our engagement was a mistake . |
| 13 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 14 | I expect shortly to receive reports from the marine accident investigation branch of a number of recent fishing vessel accidents . |
| 15 | Then I moved BOTH point cam into position on the left side . |
| 16 | ‘ What I suspect is that someone has deliberately caused delays in delivery of leather and has been undercutting your father 's prices . ’ |
| 17 | For now I want only to suggest possibilities for further investigation and analysis of representation in British feature films . |
| 18 | ‘ The way I behaved certainly gave rise to a bit of drama , from time to time . |
| 19 | The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening . |
| 20 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 21 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 22 | I 'd just left school . |
| 23 | At that point I 'd just left St Martin 's . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd just finished treatment for a drug problem and Paul was getting over valium addiction . |
| 25 | On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work . |
| 26 | I 'd just won Wimbledon and wanted a lot of action , but there was nothing and nobody . |
| 27 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 28 | Xanthe spread out the soft folds of her skirt and looked at them as Miranda quickly splashed water into her armpits , round her neck , on her face , muttering , ‘ I wish I 'd just had time to wash my hair . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd momentarily lost sight of what a fast worker you are . ’ |
| 30 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |