Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 2 | In Sweden , five ponds were selected , four of them 60–100m apart and connected by a stream , and another 1.9km away . |
| 3 | Every day I lay there and repeated an exercise of counting how many branches on the tree outside I could make out . |
| 4 | Then he turned away and went to sleep and I lay there and wept , feeling an absolute failure ’ . |
| 5 | Then when I get the sign from the studio manager I wind up and say , ‘ Well , then , the conclusions we seem to have reached tonight are blah blah blah . ’ |
| 6 | I kneel down and drink from the renewing , strengthening , sacred spring . |
| 7 | So I sit here and wait ? |
| 8 | Whilst I sit here and admire your expertise and |
| 9 | If I sit here , she thought , my hand guarding the pulse , if I sit here and do not move , I shall not die . |
| 10 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 11 | I sit up and stretch . |
| 12 | I sit up and examine the room . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
| 14 | the people , because you know normally if a student comes to see me , I sit down and have an hour and half 's discussion |
| 15 | ‘ I sit down and say to myself , how can I convert a mileage reading of one hundred and fifty thousand into only ten thousand without taking the speedometer to pieces ? |
| 16 | Do you mind if I sit down and drink my tea ? start tea . |
| 17 | If I sit down and talk to I 've said this and I 'll say it I 've said it ad nauseam . |
| 18 | There 's a wooden bench by the side of the path , so I sit down and stretch my legs out . |
| 19 | The remaining 10 per cent , I sit back and let John manipulate me . |
| 20 | I sit back and feel good about the things which went right . |
| 21 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
| 22 | So I have to I I sit there the week before I get the you know before I get the money , I sit there and work it all out . |
| 23 | A couple of lousy articles a month , stuff I make up and toss off and get no feeling from doing , just a feeling of disgust because it seems to be all I 'm fit for ! " |
| 24 | Emily gave Florrie a meaning look and said , ‘ Now you 're both here , you wo n't mind if I slip out and do a little shopping ? |
| 25 | If I stop there and clutch my possessions , they grow to possess me and I will be their slave . |
| 26 | Swiftly I bend forward and grab her by the waist . |
| 27 | Juanita sits in the kitchen and looks up with her embarrassed half-smile/half-laugh when I bend down and step inside . |
| 28 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 29 | that 's , that 's just , just what , that 's what I put in and take out do you get me , hi you see , you know |
| 30 | And I walk up and punch her what , what , what have I done , think about it , what have I done ? |