Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never break it down or lever it open . |
| 2 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 3 | Amy wo n't do it and I ca n't find anyone even to come in and keep it tidy . ’ |
| 4 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 5 | The farmer 's wife invited us in and gave us cheesy , potato turnovers — it would not be polite to refuse . |
| 6 | He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine . |
| 7 | Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ? |
| 8 | Then , I thought , we could finally sit down and take it easy . |
| 9 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 10 | Then some damned smart lawyer comes along and shoots it full of writs and affidavits . |
| 11 | ‘ You can live quite cheaply in Miami , so once you 're out there on one job , you can contact other UK clients and get them to send the gear over and keep you busy for a few weeks . |
| 12 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 13 | At this stage you simply clip it on and leave it slack . |
| 14 | Were you to fend them off or drive them crazy ? |
| 15 | Then he 'd have a , then when he 'd done that he 'd have a erm , oh I think they used to call it a a wax ball , er to rub round the end of the sole and have a an iron that he would rub this wax into the seam between your your your shoe itself and the leather to seal that off and make it waterproof . |
| 16 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 17 | Why do n't you just piss off and leave me alone . |
| 18 | If you chase the game against the likes of these teams they 'll just pick you off and slit you open . |
| 19 | Just fuck off and leave me alone . ’ |
| 20 | Fuck off and leave me alone . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Look , ’ I said eventually , ‘ fuck off and leave me alone . |
| 22 | ‘ Now piss off and leave me alone . ’ |
| 23 | start , start , annoying Cheryl , fuck off and leave me alone Trev . |
| 24 | ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head . |
| 25 | ‘ Piss off and leave us alone ! ’ |
| 26 | Now he 'll come up with all sorts of bright ideas like tying me up or pumping me full of tranquillizers for my own safety . |
| 27 | ‘ He kept waking up and telling me silly things … |
| 28 | And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone . |
| 29 | it was fine , I thought right get up and get them bloody curtains washed , I had 'em on the line , but do you think our Mike noticed them , well when he came home from work , because I thought of having to put 'em back up again , I just |
| 30 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |