Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My mate thought he saw something or someone fall off the bridge . ’ |
| 2 | Cloud-cover problems will diminish the number of useful images from the 20–22 per year that are theoretically possible , but even so the monitoring of surface phenomena that change during the year ( such as agricultural crops and natural vegetation ) or which change over the years ( for example the extent of the built-up areas of cities or the extent of forest cover ) is possible . |
| 3 | The world relies for much of its weather data on a network of satellites , which are either stationed in a fixed position above the equator or which travel over the poles to scan the globe . |
| 4 | Or you went up the fire escape , which had fifty two steps , to go up . |
| 5 | Suppose your new washing machine is on the blink ; or your neighbour puts up a fence inside your boundary ; or you trip over a paving stone and break your leg . |
| 6 | You either hear this truth or you crawl along the ground looking for worms . |
| 7 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 8 | From experience and familiarity he or she builds up a mental pictorial encyclopaedia based on study of museum collections , information from archaeological research and accumulated knowledge from books and papers describing objects of particular periods and cultures . |
| 9 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 10 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
| 11 | Instead , they may receive a reduced pension or one based on their husband 's contributions ; or one topping up the other . |
| 12 | in a , in as much as er , you know evaluations an arbitrary , and presumably there must be some right of appeal against the decision taken by the district valuer , or whoever carries out the valuation of the house . |
| 13 | So it 's er just out this one , or it came out the end of er last year , December , January time . |
| 14 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 15 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 16 | blow , hard , trouble is you blow and nothing comes out the area oh that 's good , do that again like that that 's it |
| 17 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 18 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 19 | The one you 're walking out with , the one Gazzer and me saw down the prom . ’ |
| 20 | Mum and I get on a lot better these days . |
| 21 | The driver calls ‘ Loving ’ and I get off the bus … ’ |
| 22 | Well I I went out to them , and because I heard banging , and I looked out the window and they were hacking at my fence , and I went out bu and was playing war with them when Jim crossed the road with one of them following behind and away down the street , and I thought oh ! |
| 23 | And I looked out the window , I could n't see anybody next thing a car moved off so whether it was same crowd I do n't |
| 24 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 25 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 26 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 27 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 28 | ‘ Jeffrey and I go back an awful long way , and it makes a lot of sense for him to be published by us on both sides of the Atlantic , ’ Mr Bell commented . |
| 29 | It was n't the only operation that went into the shredder at that time — you could figure that for yourself So Arnie went to London and closed it off wiped our prints off everything and I shut down the Langley end . |
| 30 | Above the chasms we stopped and I kicked out a shelf for the camera bags . |