Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's report says : ‘ The attractions of granting a licence , as a shield against accusations that the Department had — with the knowledge that the partnership was unlicensed — allowed them to carry on taking investors ’ money , were allowed to cloud the thinking within the Department . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The letter I got back brought tears to my eyes , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I phoned up put Maggie on t' phone , told her sa tell her what this bloke had said and , they said , just a minute , that they 'll get in touch wi insurance and phone us back . |
| 5 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 6 | And I stopped up to watch snooker and it went on until after twelve |
| 7 | ‘ I came up to visit Johanna in Syon and made enquiries . |
| 8 | You know if I came in to see Kim , your room , we 'd never get anything done . |
| 9 | What did I send off to get Gary them radio earphones ? |
| 10 | Can I carry on throwing pebbles into the pool ? |
| 11 | ‘ I give up lifting years ago , Mr Kelly , you should know that . ’ |
| 12 | I glance back to see Andy looking uncertain . |
| 13 | I turned around to see Mr Lu playing what I thought was his third shot . |
| 14 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 15 | As I travel around to explain Labour 's economic plans , I can feel the great passion for change that is gripping the country . |
| 16 | Mrs Singh , Balbinder and I set off to visit Cedars School . |
| 17 | When considering the nature of God in later chapters , I set out to include consideration of a range of world religions . |
| 18 | ‘ Ignorance is no defence if anything should go wrong , so I set out to ensure managers are more aware of the broad outlines of the position . ’ |
| 19 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 20 | And then I , then I popped down to see James . |
| 21 | Last Sunday I popped in to see Peter Sam on the Talyllyn Railway , writes JAKE RAYMOND . |
| 22 | ‘ I stormed round to see Mike Slide — he 's the new head of Topical Features — and asked him outright if it was true . |
| 23 | So , as my whiskers grew , I settled down to watch France beat Brazil in an exciting football match , and enjoy one channel entirely devoted to children , where understanding was universal despite the language . |
| 24 | Since Karen Parsons was denied me , I resorted to polishing up my French with Thérèse Racquin , but the moment I settled down to read Lynn would flop down near me and solicit my views on waste recycling or food additives . |
| 25 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 26 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 27 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 28 | You just take one , I just my pal had a bad or something and she was prescribed er a se , a certain kind of sleeping tablet , Tamazapam and just I started in to say amounts up to twenty five at the end of the , do you know what I mean ? |
| 29 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |
| 30 | I looked round to see Jamie . |