Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mum and I get on a lot better these days . |
| 3 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 4 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 5 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Down here there is a metre of snow on the windward side of the lavvu , and I fall over a small rucsac that had disappeared . |
| 9 | I walk into a dance rehearsal as a well-adjusted 44-year-old woman holding on to my valiums and the hope that I 'm growing old gracefully , and I walk out a 19-year-old hooligan with purple hair extensions , leopard-skin cycling shorts , black lip-gloss and the word ‘ menopause ’ blocked out of my consciousness . |
| 10 | The door began to close and I put out a hand to stop it . |
| 11 | And I put in a little more of the surroundings . |
| 12 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 13 | My home club is Coombe Hill in Kingston , Surrey , and I play off a handicap of 17 . |
| 14 | The fish are fed sparingly once a day and I carry out a 20% water change every ten days when I use a vacuum to clean the top layer of gravel . |
| 15 | You spend twenty minutes on it every night , and you scratch off a layer of dead skin . |
| 16 | The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made . |
| 17 | Step into this old fashioned , galleried , very reasonably priced general bookshop , and you step back a hundred years or so . |
| 18 | It 's different if you 're paid to come here to give a talk and you put up a poor show but if you 've volunteered then er I think er you know you you really ought to have a different approach to . |
| 19 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 20 | And you take out a box of stuff and they 're sorting through the stuff and you 're like , excuse me , and you 're trying to get your tables out |
| 21 | Suspiciousness becomes almost an instinct , powerful and all-pervasive : ‘ When you go out on a Sunday afternoon [ in the country ] , say , and you look over a bridge at the stream , you can not help yourself . |
| 22 | I 'll empty the pockets , and you stand back a bit . |
| 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 | Paul was an apprentice electrician at Watneys brewery in Mortlake so he brought some barrels of beer along and we set up a proper bar . |
| 25 | Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’ |
| 26 | More formally , if equations ( 3.6 ) — ( 3.8 ) are the ‘ truth ’ and we carry out an ordinary least-squares regression of C t on Y t , as shown in equation ( 3.9 ) , then , assuming that we have a very large sample so that we can use population variances in place of sample variances , our estimator of will tend to the conventional formula : where is the covariance between C and Y and is the variance of Y. |
| 27 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 28 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 29 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 30 | On my third shelf , I had put all my puppets and they put on a small puppet show for me . |