Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or someone comes along to upset the apple cart . |
| 2 | Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or someone comes along to upset the apple cart . |
| 3 | You er either phone us up at Road at Nottingham , or you call in to see us , and we 'll give you an an exact breakdown of what 's in your water supply . |
| 4 | Suppose you actually managed to escape all the harmful effects of tobacco but your child took up smoking because you smoked and he or she went on to develop one of those dreadful ( and often fatal ) illnesses . |
| 5 | Does he or she know when to do it ? |
| 6 | Does he or she know how to do it ? |
| 7 | Those paralysed by panic , or who tried insanely to drag out the guns , were drowned . |
| 8 | Those old Andy Hardy movies always seemed to have a scene where a bunch of American teenagers would be sitting around in an old barn or something wondering where to stage their amateur dramatics . |
| 9 | Or we set out to take it there . |
| 10 | Anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public or if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence , or he chooses not to do so , must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed . |
| 11 | Someone filled and lit a chillim and everyone gathered round to smoke it , exchanging , now and then , laconic comments about the boar 's escape , musing about what had happened and how different everything could have been if only luck was with them . |
| 12 | The dress rehearsal finally ended at four in the afternoon and everyone went home to rest . |
| 13 | Suddenly there was a commotion in the sky and everyone looked up to see Ethel and Griselda swooping down on their brooms , waving and shouting . |
| 14 | Here and there a fight broke out , girls screeched as someone goosed them , lovers clung together and ignored all that went on around them , pickpockets worked their art furiously and everyone set out to enjoy themselves . |
| 15 | Nude sunbathing down on the Waaf site ! ’ and everyone racing down to have a look . |
| 16 | Summer 's here , hemlines are high : it 's time to put your best foot forward and show off your perfectly dressed legs — and no-one knows how to flatter them more perfectly than Pretty Polly . |
| 17 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 18 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 19 | But Robin-Anne did not react , and I looked down to see that she was not watching for the new day , but was crying . |
| 20 | But then they twitched again and I looked down to see , just above the sill , the curls and bright blue eyes of a snub-nosed child . |
| 21 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 22 | There is much hypocrisy practised against homosexuals and I hope not to contribute to it , but it is not all on the one side . |
| 23 | ‘ I have never known a patient wait for 10 hours for an ambulance for an inter-hospital transfer — and I hope never to know it again , ’ she said . |
| 24 | I can see the land is in good heart , and I remember enough to know the extent of the estates . |
| 25 | ‘ But some of the young people in the bar explained and I rushed off to get a camera . ’ |
| 26 | At all other times , Evelyn and I rushed out to meet him if we heard that he was in the Gallery , so stimulating was his company . |
| 27 | His tone was dismissive , and I got up to go . |
| 28 | There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him . |
| 29 | Edward came back struggling with a load of planks , and I got up to help him . |
| 30 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |