Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 2 | I 'd I was I was glad when they said no more can move into Green , cos I was thinking , Well my sister 's getting a house soon and my other sister she 's getting a house and I do n't want them two living round here as well cos the me mam and dad wo n't be able to see them either , you know if they move into the flats so I was glad . |
| 3 | Subtract them that way round . |
| 4 | I mean Jim was saying that Winston has given them two weeks off so |
| 5 | Open the door Want me bloody furniture back ! |
| 6 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 7 | The surging crowd had carried me some rows back from the front . |
| 8 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 9 | They were only too pleased to grant him early retirement back in September when they needed to shed staff . |
| 10 | We found him thirty levels down , bound and drugged . ’ |
| 11 | Call up the design and place it two rows up from the bottom of the design area , leaving two empty rows of squares along the bottom of the screen . |
| 12 | He built us nine platforms up in the canopy . |
| 13 | ‘ The cutlets yes , certainly , since the Prince rejected them first time round , and asked for them later , ’ dredging up memories from the depths of his mind . |
| 14 | Put me new floor in after Christmas . |
| 15 | Well Locke , you 'll recall , erm well let me , let me first point out the further erm implication of this erm which is that erm individuals have no rights of property except those rights which are granted by grace by the authorities that be , by the king . |
| 16 | Suppose I 'm an industrialist listening to this programme , and I 've been very interested in what you 've been saying , and I feel that I 've got a problem that the University could possibly give me some advice on . |
| 17 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't suppose that 's made you many friends back in the lab . |
| 19 | Oh it 's not it 's just and I 'll walk down and er I will bring him some biscuits back |
| 20 | We got we 've got I could have twenty five sales execs sitting er in the Newca Tyne and Wear area put it that way on on across those products and they would n't even bump into each other . |
| 21 | And they sometimes put it that way round . |
| 22 | The strip is easy to apply , simply put it white side down on the squares to be corrected and rub gently but firmly with a ball point pen on the back of the strip . |
| 23 | I 'll do it that way round . |
| 24 | No I think you should do it , do it that way round |
| 25 | The meat from their Old Spots is succulent , free-range and in such demand that the Russells have enough orders to sell it four times over . |
| 26 | I had visited it last year out of curiosity . |
| 27 | Fuzzy Logic has made it two wins out of two … |
| 28 | ‘ Ferguson will give us more threat up front than we had in the cup tie , when our performance , particularly in the second half , was shocking . ’ |
| 29 | You recall what that minstrel told us some weeks back , Ralf ? |
| 30 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |