Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , , dream occasionally in n it strange ? , help is one goldfish is male or female , how 's one know whether to call it James or Jessica or I have n't the faintest idea how you sex a fish . |
| 2 | " Or you sell only the herd and grow corn on the land and make tizwin , enough to keep you drunk for seven years . " |
| 3 | Or you went up the fire escape , which had fifty two steps , to go up . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You either hear this truth or you crawl along the ground looking for worms . |
| 6 | You can either look at people 's jobs because that 's the bulk of the money goes or you look at the charging policy or you look how the building 's run . |
| 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 | Now that spouse is only worth a hundred and fifty thousand pounds when he or she dies not a hundred and sixty thousand pounds . |
| 12 | Most lampreys are filter-feeders as young and ectoparasitic blood-suckers as adults , whereas hagfishes are predators or they rasp away the flesh of dead or moribund fishes . |
| 13 | So it 's er just out this one , or it came out the end of er last year , December , January time . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The one you 're walking out with , the one Gazzer and me saw down the prom . ’ |
| 16 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 17 | I know that in the mundane , the thought of never having been understood or recognised rankles ; but the transcendent joy is the greater and I get instead the hidden flowers of sorrow of my own soul with their scent and their beauty . |
| 18 | Mum and I get on a lot better these days . |
| 19 | The driver calls ‘ Loving ’ and I get off the bus … ’ |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 23 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 24 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | And I go there every month . |
| 28 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
| 29 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 30 | Runaways were commonplace , and I remember when a bull , on its way back to Milford Station , thought enough was enough , broke free and terrorised the neighbouring streets for about half-an-hour before recapture . |