Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some point during this soliloquy I look down and notice man 's best friend humbly licking my shoe . |
| 2 | With some difficulty I got up and watched in disbelief as the collie staggered to his feet . |
| 3 | After a bit I got up and — I went back . |
| 4 | As I reached the end of the student union building I looked back and gave a little finger-wiggle . |
| 5 | After about an hour I gave up and retired to the Met Office , very much put out . |
| 6 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 7 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 8 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 9 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 10 | mummy me sit down and , and |
| 11 | After tea I went out and saw Ryan . |
| 12 | At the third attempt I gave up and hailed a taxi . |
| 13 | Mummy I walk home but I walk home really |
| 14 | After getting out of the car she bent over and pushed open the gate , then closed it behind her , walked up the short path and rang the doorbell . |
| 15 | She walked with him to the garage , and as he got into her car she leaned forward and kissed his cheek lightly . |
| 16 | At the doorway she reached up and slotted the new dā telo twig between the stones above the lintel . |
| 17 | At the first stoplight she leaned over and kissed him . |
| 18 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 19 | Reaching the railway fence she climbed over and started across the tracks . |
| 20 | Oh , I do n't believe any of this , she thought tiredly ; every time she opened her mouth she got deeper and deeper into the mire . |
| 21 | It 's , it 's no good we going tomorrow or Howard 'll be coming turn out late shift be coming out you know , might as well get ready and going out , now I 've had summat to eat , it 's only quarter to Really we 're starting into the second leaves , the frosts through to the second set of leaves these , that 's gon na be better plant and here when the wind blows |
| 22 | The first tape we played back and it was him eating toast ! |
| 23 | So now what 's happening is we 're before we 're doing an album we sit down and we pick out a lot of songs we decide right you know we need songs with good story books so the video is near enough planned with the recording of the song and it it 's a lot easier for us and a lot more enjoyable enough a lot more enjoyable . |
| 24 | They are generally healthier and put on weight , and as a result they multiply faster and cause an increase in the size and frequency of pest outbreaks . |
| 25 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 26 | And the other side is quite dry , yeah , that is the side he keeps on but that 's quite erm dry . |
| 27 | And er the sun does n't always travel at the same speed it goes fast and slow so we can also measure the the sun . |
| 28 | Against the living death of modern material civilisation he spoke again and again , and even if these dead could speak , what he said is unanswerable . |
| 29 | With his usual presence of mind he nipped back and picked up Sheldukher 's hard copy map of the planet . |
| 30 | Both the particular rule it lays down and , more important , the general principle it enshrines should be accepted as part of the English law also , though it may be debatable whether there is a need for it to be put into statutory form . |