Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 2 | We all had to warm up again later and I did n't have the necessary background for that ; when we finally ran , Buster was the winner , Drew second and I came in third . |
| 3 | It were nice just to relax and I started smoking again and I packed up last Sunday . |
| 4 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 5 | We managed to persuade them to come and sit with us and she ended up next to me . |
| 6 | Er a lady fetched it er for us to do and she comes back next week for it , just to put it on when anybody 's in , just a conversation , for new words for a dictionary or something |
| 7 | Erm , and they went out last night . |
| 8 | And of course , when I was down there Sunday , I turned round there and I said er , and he came in last night , again , he said you do n't wan na sell it ? |
| 9 | Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ? |
| 10 | and he pulled up next to me and he said wound his window down he said ah chicken ! |
| 11 | And it brought back last night 's powerful sensations , steaming through her system like an express train . |
| 12 | Oh that was she was supposed to come today , but she phoned up last week erm she is gon na come but I do n't think that a date has been arranged yet . |