Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd play for them or write out any song they wanted to learn as long as they gave me ten or fifteen minutes worth of scales and exercises first . ’ |
| 2 | It was me that went down first were n't it ? |
| 3 | there 's one of them that messed up both of us |
| 4 | Jane managed to help me and bring up two children without outside help . |
| 5 | It 's a glorious , peaceful summer day — why ca n't you just lie back like me and soak up some of those gorgeous golden rays ? ’ |
| 6 | He did his deep-breathing exercises ; evidently , like so much else in his life , ritual ; then smiled at me and jumped back twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | Benjamin heard the faint crackling in the undergrowth but took one look at me and gave up any idea of pursuit . |
| 8 | He came and stood beside me and picked out one of the new abstracts I 'd done at home . |
| 9 | Certainly , if your constitutional arrangements are recent , you might feel more disposed to abandon them and draw up some new ones instead . |
| 10 | Tom spent the weekends with them and drove up many afternoons from Rome to dine with them and stay overnight . |
| 11 | When the English upper classes grew too civilized for such ideas , Cromwellians overthrew them and carried on worse than before . |
| 12 | And find all the just just play with them and find out all the things and write down your answers . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd rather go to bed with you than see round any house , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Poachers could have been there before you and creamed off some of the rabbits , or there may have been a more innocent intrusion by a courting couple on the site . |
| 15 | He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy . |
| 16 | When Maddox shrugged , Pascoe lifted a store bag he 'd brought with him and took out some fake flowers and a top hat . |
| 17 | But if Lucy had talked about him and given out some kind of general warning , this could be as far as he 'd ever get . |
| 18 | Owing , however , to a series of accidents , including bad weather , the head of one small clan , Macdonald of Glencoe , a wild valley in Argyllshire , was late in taking the oath , and those on the spot seized the chance to make an example of him and pay off some private scores . |
| 19 | Lloyd shut the door after him and pulled up one of the chairs , straddling it . |
| 20 | McAllister sat herself down opposite him and poured out two cups of coffee — he had refused to drink his own until she had joined him . |
| 21 | Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) . |
| 22 | Such behaviour , which always unnerved her when displayed by such as Higginbotham , did not unnerve her at all . |
| 23 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 24 | She opened it and took out several half crowns , silver threepenny pieces and some pennies . |
| 25 | Zoe goes for it and plucks up some courage while Leonard asserts himself and makes a decision . |
| 26 | They came into the hallway before opening it and taking out rubber surgical gloves . |
| 27 | ‘ Yesterday , when I asked you about animal rights , you said you were out of it and clammed up good and proper . |
| 28 | Yes , just widening it and straightening out some of the bends . |
| 29 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 30 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |