Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sien came in to see him on visiting days , and she was keeping an eye on the studio . |
| 2 | MALCOLM ALLISON was back in managerial business last night when Dennis Rofe quit struggling Bristol Rovers after a row over the man brought in to guide him through troubled waters . |
| 3 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 4 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 5 | It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form . |
| 6 | You know the kind of thing I mean : the chickens dart into the mêlée , pick up a morsel of food , and then charge off to eat it in comparative quiet . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ I think it is marvellous he kept on supporting us from inside prison . ’ |
| 8 | I was sorry about the kites , and I knew that I 'd have to give up flying them for good to keep the act looking realistic , but it was worth it . |
| 9 | When you send a fax , a dialogue box pops up telling you in plain English just what is going on , while an animated fax machine , complete with a document feeding through it , shows you how far things have got . |
| 10 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 11 | It is what children do quite naturally and in many under-developed countries people carry on doing it into old age . |
| 12 | While it may be pleasant to have a young exuberant puppy bounding out to greet you with great enthusiasm , you do not want a large adult dog behaving in a similar fashion , leaping up and bowling people onto the floor . |
| 13 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 14 | Compare this to how the largest fish move relatively slowly , selecting their food with the discrimination of a gourmet ; the subtle approach , the gaping of the cavernous mouth that does not , at times , close over the food but blows it out to rid it of foreign matter . |
| 15 | Applause rang out , and she twirled around to acknowledge it in demure delight , clapping the barman — and then being crushed against the ample bosom of the barman 's wife . |
| 16 | Y we put it in the garden and I got really cold hands and then was just about to put them into hot water when you said do n't cos you 'll get chilblains |
| 17 | The Cold War was reaching a point where , having reactivated the Anglo-American relationship , it was about to expose it to new strains and tensions . |
| 18 | But three ordinary people with very different lifestyles are about to display theirs in public . |
| 19 | He carried it home and patiently set about restoring it to full health , hand feeding it for days . |
| 20 | You got about five of them went round giving them to other people just so you could say that to Chris did n't you ? |