Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do possess some pretty awesome powers , as you may well be aware . ’ |
| 2 | He says : ‘ I did n't miss years , but I did miss some very important times in their lives . |
| 3 | He says : ‘ I did n't miss years , but I did miss some very important times in their lives . |
| 4 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 5 | You did do that well ! |
| 6 | You do fuck all anyway Stuart . |
| 7 | Yeah , she did give some away |
| 8 | She does like that so we 'll have to go and get Christopher 's present wo n't we ? |
| 9 | she can be a bit vulgar , she does say some really stupid things sometimes . |
| 10 | Or members who were n't here or but we did talk this through in some detail . |
| 11 | We did cover that yesterday because obviously it 's an absolutely crucial point , and when we do a one-day course , we actually make people do one minute against the clock . |
| 12 | I think a , every so often it 'll be very interesting , very sort of , we did try this once did n't we ? |
| 13 | But it , it did and , and I think there again a little bit of Guild influence because when er we were at meetings we would say , well what are you going to do about the er drapery you know and eventually we did get this better erm you know , drapery . |
| 14 | In order to ‘ do things with words ’ either actively , as language producers , or passively , as language understanders , we clearly need more tools than the formal language system , though we do need that too . |
| 15 | We go in mainly for first editions of the classics but we do have some rather nice botanical books , floras mostly , sought after for their plates … |
| 16 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 17 | They do say that sometimes . |
| 18 | I think we should make sure we sweep up the Selby drawings because they do include some fairly good stuff . |
| 19 | Like rabbits , they are born blind but they do have some very fine body hair . |
| 20 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 21 | But he had a rather military approach to the work and he did run some rather tough courses for some of the boys , so one of the parents complained . |
| 22 | ‘ He did have some really good stories , ’ said Ann , ‘ and the way he told them — well , he was fun , and we both liked him . |
| 23 | Er my Noble my Right Honourable Friend did take account of that and he did agree that hereafter the appointment of the Chairman should not be an appointment made by the Home Secretary , but that shou he should be one made by the full authority and that has I 'm glad to say met with with approval . |
| 24 | ‘ He does do some pretty silly things now and again , does n't he , mummy ? ’ |
| 25 | While ‘ Shine On ’ has too many holes in it ( the exclusion of Syd 's ‘ Piper At The Gates Of Dawn ’ is a gaping omission ) to be considered a ‘ definitive ’ historical document of Pink Floyd , it does contain some quite magnificent state-of-the-art rock music . |
| 26 | Yeah , it does say that here . |