Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just heard that Katie here was in so I came to see when she 'd be back on duty , that 's all . |
| 2 | Perhaps you really wounded his pride when you turned him down so he wants to see you humiliated . ’ |
| 3 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 4 | It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in . |
| 5 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 6 | On the riverside , where the pathway could not be closed , a uniformed policeman paced imperturbably , and occasionally moved people along if they tended to congregate and linger too long . |
| 7 | ‘ Meaning — do you slap her down if she dares to ask about the other women in your life ? ’ |
| 8 | Sir Alfred had spent enough of Rubery Owen 's profits and was impatient for success ; BRM would be closed down if it failed to win races in 1962 . |
| 9 | In terms of the average sailor , the masthead is also an easier configuration to control , and you do n't have to worry about the mast coming down if you fail to get the runner on immediately . |
| 10 | Right , very good , that 's all from Headquarters , right then we move on to then any other business , erm I think mainly it 's just the odd verse with arrangements for next meeting , because our next meeting is our own A G M , erm , at , which we erm elect our officers for the next year , er , and there are , are other arrangements to make , erm we sometimes put a little form do n't we on the end of the minutes that , people to fill in if they wish to nominate someone , I think we should do that even though very , very rarely gets actually filled in , erm , and we have some post which we have elections for others where we can phone the people who are doing those jobs and , and hope they 'll carry on . |
| 11 | The have had er a long grade of time since the complaint was put to the commission , to put a notification in if they wanted to protect their position , but still they could of done so on , on a precautionary basis , and without prejudice basis they have not done so , a longer standing commissioner had invited them to do so ten years ago , they could do so this week on without prejudice basis and that may erm lead to security in the future that they now seek |
| 12 | You will only need to put something in if you want to include them . |
| 13 | You let them in to have a laugh at them or you let them in because you want to listen to what they 're saying . |
| 14 | I did n't put an evaluation in because I wanted to discuss it orally with my adviser . |
| 15 | ‘ I lied to her to get in because I needed to talk to you about your big gamble at Ascot . ’ |
| 16 | People who come on a timber frame construction course , for instance , will come along because they want to use the technique , perhaps for an extension to their home . |
| 17 | Thank you very much , er I ca n't carry along because you want to stop me , but if I were capable of telling , I 'd say my attitude is still the same as it was before . |
| 18 | The idea of a crossroads is a difficult concept to pin down because we have to distinguish between different types of changes . |
| 19 | Erm , the trouble is , if you do n't know the vocabulary it 's very hard to dictate and write down because you have to keep stopping and asking them to spell things . |
| 20 | ‘ Sit down because I need to tell you something . ’ |
| 21 | Ray , who runs a local lost and found bureau for the National Petwatch organisation , took the dog in while he tried to trace the owner . |
| 22 | He shouted her name , but she only let him in after he threatened to kick down the door . |
| 23 | ‘ I wo n't look in before I go to see your Uncle Walter in the morning . |
| 24 | We ought to go in before it starts to get cold . ’ |
| 25 | She sketched even faster , wanting to get everything down before it began to pour with rain . |
| 26 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 27 | They said one Pakistani soldier , five of his countrymen and three Americans were injured in the three-hour clash , the worst since the weekend killing of seven Nigerian troops trapped by a mob and then gunned down as they tried to flee . |
| 28 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 29 | The officer was run down as he tried to wave Haytons motorcycle into a layby on the A5 near Weedon in Northamptonshire . |
| 30 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |