Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 2 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 3 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 4 | No I mean even with a hand saw , you know , I 've done it before |
| 5 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 6 | I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work . |
| 7 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 8 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 9 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 10 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 11 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 12 | I lay there in a sort of wonderment , listening to a rich world of sound about me . |
| 13 | The café itself is so crowded with smoke that I sit outside on a bench . |
| 14 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 15 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 16 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 17 | Unfortunately , this is not to be , since it transpires that the gentleman from British Rail was nothing short of a duplicitous cad ; there are no small compartments , just open-plan carriages too large to be defended by even the most outrageous behaviour , so I slump sullenly into a corner , wallowing in layers of dust and grime that would easily qualify for a Quentin Crisp kitemark , waiting for the guard to switch on the heat and the lights , preparatory to the departure of the Sir John . |
| 18 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 19 | ‘ I look forward to a mutually beneficial union . ’ |
| 20 | I look forward to a further round of bilateral negotiations between Israel and her Arab neighbours soon . |
| 21 | I look forward to a comparable result for trust-status hospitals in Scotland . |
| 22 | I look forward to a positive and enthusiastic response from my right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General . |
| 23 | I look forward to a directive under the social action programme . |
| 24 | I look forward to a reply by return of post . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , my apologies for not being with you today and I look forward to a FANTASTIC reunion with you all at Crystal Palace in November . |
| 26 | Well done , ‘ Mid-Hants ’ , and I look forward to an early return visit . |
| 27 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 28 | Then I glance away with a smile . |
| 29 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 30 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |