Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't you see what you 've done by playing such a trick on me and staying away so long ? " |
| 2 | I think he 'd had a stroke by then , but he came up to me and said very quietly , ‘ How 's your comical friend then ? ’ |
| 3 | the look he gave me and jumped out as quick as anything , I thought |
| 4 | As I was much smaller than him , he was very rude to me and behaved very badly , especially when nobody was looking . |
| 5 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 6 | The female , Vicky , came to me and bent down so that I could look again into her grey eyes . |
| 7 | In order to spell , one has to combine both kinds of sequence , one has to think of the syllables in the word in the correct order and remember them and remember how far you got , and also remember the sequence of visual symbols , i.e. letters on paper . |
| 8 | These laws may have originally been decreed by God , but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it . |
| 9 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 10 | Those books Thérèse read too but pretended she did n't because then she 'd have to go to confession about them and spell out exactly what she 'd thought . |
| 11 | ‘ We got him halfway up the lane and we got so tired and I left them and came on ahead , ’ Sacco blurted out . |
| 12 | Simmer with plenty of fish sauce , of course , and perhaps some fresh ginger slices , and then remove them and throw in finely sliced lemon grass and kaffir lime leaf . |
| 13 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 14 | Masklin scurried between them and ran on upwards . |
| 15 | Colours and designs created by tiny scales , overlapping like tiles on a roof , come from pigments , or the effects of microscopic structures which split the light falling on them and reflect back only a part of it . |
| 16 | Now when there is excess flood water it is held between them and let out slowly later . |
| 17 | Littler was a wily businessman who knew very well that things were difficult for them and realized how badly they needed his business . |
| 18 | He closed his eyes to calculate then opened them and whistled softly again . |
| 19 | Most farmers view old buildings as a liability and the relaxation of a planning authority 's traditional strictness in assessing proposed changes of use of such structures enhances their development potential , makes them more marketable and encourages the owner to sell them and to put up cheaply built , impermanent and often ugly sheds for storage of crops and farm machinery . |
| 20 | Since the Carlists were unlikely to accept any kind of power-sharing arrangement , it was less a question of making a political pact with them than of imposing the desired situation on them and limiting as far as possible their capacity to reject it . |
| 21 | But most of the 49 designated assembly points exist only on maps ; UN officials have so far surveyed only 20 of them and have not yet set up camps suitable for an organised demobilisation . |
| 22 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |
| 23 | Children have rights to health , education , to be free from physical and sexual abuse , to have a voice in the decisions which affect them and to grow up as responsible and active citizens but in many countries today many children stoo still do not enjoy these rights . |
| 24 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 25 | ‘ he put them on the shelf and said , ‘ Let's watch over them and see how long it takes to sell them ’ . |
| 26 | Adam might have escaped the file memories for years , suppressed them and jerked violently away from them , but he had never been able to pretend he was unscathed by those events . |
| 27 | Once you go through reception they do n't know what you 're like , or what your background is , but they tend to be rough with you and push you and see how far they can go — and most of the girls crack . |
| 28 | Pascoe left him and ran lightly upstairs . |
| 29 | Maxim looked at the clutter of parts in front of him and realised how right he 'd been in saying soldiers hate to throw away guns , even cheap Spanish ones . |
| 30 | She thrust the remains of her cheese at him and rushed jerkily away , hiding her face . |