Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we have n't , erm talking about er cars as to other forms of transport and on the whole there 's been more complaints about the public transport than they have about cars , but you surely do n't think or maybe you do , I mean what 's bad about cars ? , |
| 2 | A Hoechst spokesman said the fumes were of a concentrated form of sulphuric acid which is irritating to the eyes and throat ; he said it was unclear how much material had leaked or how it had happened . |
| 3 | His theory is that the two men were either freelance or else they decided to try and kill the President by themselves without telling the others . ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes they 've been bitter and sometimes hopeless , but no matter how they 've fallen or why they 've fallen , the time comes when they stop and whether you like it or not , or intend it or not , stop they do . |
| 5 | He does n't care what I say or how I feel — my feelings are meaningless to him — it 's the fact that he 's got me . |
| 6 | They 'll they and they you 'll see them going mm not that not that one back to the first I do n't know and then they get the dictionary out . |
| 7 | erm Brighton generally , Sussex , anything anybody thinks they do n't know and then they think the University would know , and they just ring us up , which I suppose somebody on the campus will know , but you do n't always , ca n't be able to find them always , so it 's quite difficult . |
| 8 | I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident |
| 9 | No I I I did n't know and now they send saying you have n't signed ! |
| 10 | When they had gone , Michael Swinton let a small silence fall and then he said , ‘ We had better make the lie a truth , I think . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 12 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |
| 13 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
| 14 | As a consequence , the local Age Concern Groups differ markedly in what they provide and how they provide it . |
| 15 | This we promised and so I tell you Perestroika had not yet reached that part of the world . |
| 16 | More water will be attracted and therefore you get a high tide in this region . |
| 17 | Sometimes er when especially the the er older element have been so delighted that we 've offered them an opportunity because everybody else has said they 're too old and after all this they 're getting really excited want to come and then they look so glum in the photographs |
| 18 | but , then again with Eileen you never know with Eileen she says well it 's , it depends on our Sandra she said I 'm not building up on it cos you know what she is , but she says if you know she might want Alan to come and then she goes on and , and then , then she says I do n't know what we shall do really if we do come , she says cos if Eileen wo n't , she 's work , really ca n't come if Alan comes |
| 19 | somebody else to come and apparently he escaped out of a prison somewhere , she 's |
| 20 | I could have gone on of course erm , longer but er I wanted to do erm , I 've always wanted to write and so I 've er been able to do that since . |
| 21 | The 15 homes in the first phase are all sold and occupied and now he has turned his attention to phase two , which will comprise 14 homes . |
| 22 | Personal — a subjective response to work and how it meets needs for growth and satisfaction . |
| 23 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 24 | Now the taxation of the plaintiff 's bill of costs , came before master er and er in his taxation , it seems , and I 'm , I think I 'm right in saying it , it seems that erm there is no substantial dispute as to the particular items in the various bills of costs with which he was concerned , it maybe that if there were a discrepancy , he has , he dealt with it and nothing has been said before me today , er to suggest that the figures appearing in the bill of costs ought to be varied and accordingly I have not er have to consider the detail items in the bill of costs , the only issue I did n't decide is whether master was correct in disallowing interest for the period that he did , er Mr for the plaintiff says that he was wrong er that there was no good reason for disallowing him any interest and that accordingly I on this appeal should erm discharge or reverse that part of taxing order as disallowed interest . |
| 25 | Sally 's sister a little girl of three months , Daryl had meant to tell Sally what her mother had said and had forgotten and now she remembered . |
| 26 | And since absolute holism can be used , in Althusser 's view , to explain a wide range of phenomena — to explain how societies are organised and maintained and how they change — his theory provides an opportunity to assess both the character of his approach and its scope . |
| 27 | He kept interrupting and eventually I told him he could n't sit in on our discussions any more and I explained why . |
| 28 | I started painting and then I went to be rivet hotter . |
| 29 | ‘ We give them everything they want and yet they behave so badly ’ is a frequent complaint . |
| 30 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |