Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P. Oh , my worst day — get up , eat food , watch TV , sit in 'cause I 've got no money because I spent it all on Sunday , then off to work till 2am to earn more skating money . |
| 2 | ‘ Sit down before you go , ’ said Mrs Parker kindly ; she thought McAllister a great improvement over Bailey , so soft-spoken and pleasant . |
| 3 | Come and sit down before you fall down . ’ |
| 4 | Oh Anthony sit down before you fall off the chair |
| 5 | Recollecting that she had no money with her , Clare asked only for a cup of tea ; but Len made her and Bridget sit down while he queued , and returned with a loaded tray . |
| 6 | ‘ I suggest we sit down while I explain them to you briefly . ’ |
| 7 | I only sit down when he comes in and he 's not in much . |
| 8 | ‘ Sit down because I need to tell you something . ’ |
| 9 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |
| 10 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bloody hell I just sit down and it calls again . |
| 13 | At least sit down until you feel stronger . ’ |
| 14 | " Sit down till I unlace your boots . " |
| 15 | The old girl may have updated her image and cleaned up her act , but those eyebrows still crash together when she frowns . |
| 16 | We instruct without formal RYA courses at Paxos , Porto Heli and Cannigione so that we do n't hinder the flexibility of these holidays too much . |
| 17 | Mrs Fishfinger 's Koi — they eat better than I do … |
| 18 | They are the executive body , and the national assembly is the people of the Kuwait , and fifty members are directly elected by the people through the twenty constituencies which we have , and you have here the legislative body , in other words a parliament of fifty members and the government , and they sit together and they run the business of the country like any other parliament , and if you look to the television and see what happens in the House of Commons , it is exactly what happens in Kuwait . |
| 19 | Well I know , I mean especially if you know the people , what 's the point of being formal if you know the people ? |
| 20 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 21 | if , if you go for a swim right , and you with your contact lenses in , I always wear my goggles over the top , I mean obviously if you dive |
| 22 | I mean basically when we look at the range of council services , then you have to take decisions about the balance of spending between different priorities . |
| 23 | It fits that account better than it fits others , including a probabilistic account of which a bit more will be said . |
| 24 | Order effects strategy involved the effect of the position of each adjective in the list to the impression formed ; ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ , ‘ when the list ended with several good qualities this tended to affect any answer since they remained more prominent in my mind ’ , and ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 25 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 26 | For Wissenschaft has its limits , and the " unshakable faith " in its power ensures that its most gifted followers press on until they reach those limits and discover for themselves its ultimate powerlessness to solve the problem of existence . |
| 27 | I clamber on and he puts his great black dress over my head . |
| 28 | So in theory , you do n't have to save your work , and exit properly before you switch off ; the AccuCard will remember where you were and return you there next time you switch on . |
| 29 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
| 30 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |