Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) ) |
| 2 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 3 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 4 | I waved him away as Karen thoughtfully tucked me in and zipped me up . |
| 5 | When there came , in the distance , the sound of another bell ringing , the girl from the next cubicle actually came in and tugged her out into the room , whispering , ‘ You 've got to line up ! ’ |
| 6 | She sobbed so much that Mrs Parvis heard through the wall and came in and told her off . |
| 7 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 8 | I told you , I said to him , I just pulled in and heaved them out . |
| 9 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
| 10 | She would have drowned , but Celia saved her life , she jumped in and pulled her out , even though she was out of her depth . |
| 11 | I had a furtive look round then I went in and settled myself down . |
| 12 | He glanced up as she came in and swept everything back into the drawer . |
| 13 | ‘ Although when they first walked in and found you out cold on the floor , they thought you were one of the gang too ! |
| 14 | No we actually just gone in and picked it out She was , she was actually erm a promo girl for the er for the dog food company who , who , who 's mobile the picture . |
| 15 | I think we 're just gon na have to let him moan I would n't mind , but until last weekend , he never give a dickie bird about going to sleep I think it was that came in and set him off she should 've just left him on to it instead of trying to do it herself |
| 16 | er if it 's in the hall er we 've got it in our hall and you just plug in and set it on and then if anybody opens a window , the alarm bell goes off . |
| 17 | It was ill , and she brought it in and nursed it back to health . |
| 18 | She knelt down and rolled them up Bella 's legs and over her swollen knees . |
| 19 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 20 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 21 | He reached down and bundled her up into his arms , trying to drown the feeble cries of pain that she uttered , reassuring her that everything would be all right . |
| 22 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 23 | I remember she crouched down and lifted me on to the table . |
| 24 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 25 | But even to come out of her flat and come up to us , if we went down and brought her up , she would come . |
| 26 | I just sat down and sorted it out . |
| 27 | ‘ I calmed him down and checked him over and then the ambulance took over . ’ |
| 28 | Then some hooligans burnt the house down and ran him out of the district . |
| 29 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 30 | And it sort of weighed me down and slowed me down till my legs could n't hardly move . |