Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 3 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 4 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 5 | effect so erm whether that means actually working directly for them or working for a company who specializes in erm the management of historic erm buildings or environments or areas . |
| 6 | Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred . |
| 7 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 8 | We must learn to hold ourselves and move with an economy of effort , using no more than the appropriate amount of energy for any activity . |
| 9 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 10 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 11 | He was not , it appears , in any way responsible for the Montagu declaration — though he anticipated its thinking-but came on the scene shortly afterwards as one of the chief architects of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms . |
| 12 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 13 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 14 | Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest . |
| 15 | • Announcing his decision to ‘ unretire ’ himself and return to the Williams team next year , Nigel Mansell issued a wordy statement which posed many more questions than it answered . |
| 16 | But then he restrained himself and said in a quiet voice , ‘ Know anythin' about sailin' ? ’ |
| 17 | In such a case , the State will pay the owner the value he has established himself and presented to the Federal National Heritage Service or Custom Officers . |
| 18 | He got up slowly from his chair to stretch himself and went to the window , overlooking the back car lot . |
| 19 | On the ground , when they had left the parked plane , Myeloski excused himself and went to the men 's room . |
| 20 | He wrapped a short raincoat around himself and ran up the front path . |
| 21 | Friar Tuck stirred himself and stared at the Trapper . |
| 22 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |
| 23 | Slowly he righted himself and took off the mask , although she could not see his face for she was not looking at him . |
| 24 | He moved back himself and leaned against the wall , studying them . |
| 25 | When they were told that he was still at lunch , Morton thought that Bragg would explode , but he controlled himself and settled for a middle-aged assistant . |
| 26 | Then Gascoigne , hitherto a pale shadow of himself and stifled by the physical attention of man-marker Walter Bonacina , made his heroic contribution and doused those particular flames . |
| 27 | When his father was absent , he would come here himself and stand beside the pool , staring down into the water as if emptying himself into its depths , letting his thoughts become the fish , drifting , gliding slowly , almost listlessly in the water , then rising swiftly to breach the surface , imbued with sudden purpose . |
| 28 | Crawford travelled to New York by himself and booked into the Algonquin Hotel just before Christmas 1966 , tucking into a turkey sandwich and cold tea on the festive day and desperately missing wife Gabrielle and baby Emma , who were staying with Gabrielle 's father on his farm in Kent . |
| 29 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 30 | Despite some unnecessary barracking from supporters , Mr Singh certainly enjoyed himself and got behind the team . |