Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Let us imagine that Big Ted , having heard me talk about this point , is trying to explain it to Little Ted in the pub afterwards :
2 Oh , no , oh , no , I 'm not suggesting you do , but it just seems unkind of erm , clobbering them sort of both ways .
3 She and her accupuncturist partner , Richard Spindler , are now in serious debt , they say , because Lloyds lent them money without proper advice and called in the loan after overcharging them .
4 ‘ We have now allocated five new frequencies to BR and given them access to two others . ’
5 Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make .
6 I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week .
7 I have flown my plane with cadged army fuel six hundred miles .
8 And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that .
9 ‘ I am not going to lose my credibility on this train by being caught coming out of the help 's bedroom . ’
10 These phrases denied me my right to participate in the very same way that the socialist movement refused to recognize my rights to have access to information that would dispel my ignorance on such subjects .
11 Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything .
12 I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them .
13 I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them .
14 I was bought a large trunk and Uncle Charlie came round one Saturday morning and sign-wrote my name on both ends , with my house number .
15 Indeed without any wish to evade my responsibility for subsequent events , I think I may fairly claim that in everything I did in re Karen and her husband I was market-led .
16 Tom caught my eye behind her back and winked to acknowledge my presence on alien territory .
17 ‘ Or sell my story to some Hong Kong newspaper ? ’
18 I bathe and dress , and paste my face in gauzy liquid , whiting out the spots and the sweat .
19 There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form .
20 I recently had to treat my tank for White Spot , which seems to have cleared up , but my Emperor Angelfish is still scratching , although there is no external sign of White Spot .
21 No one to see my interest in this spot on the lochan 's edge .
22 Erm , I would n't er remember having erm broken my arm on this date erm I remember rather having broken my leg on this date .
23 Erm , I would n't er remember having erm broken my arm on this date erm I remember rather having broken my leg on this date .
24 I want them to share the Person who has filled my life with such abundance .
25 Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year .
26 An integral part of any theory of personhood concerns inner states of all kinds , and I shall be centring my discussion on indigenous ideas relating to some inner states important to the Chewong , an understanding of which , I shall argue , is necessary in order to understand their interpersonal behaviour and associated values .
27 He believed an , as yet unidentifiable , soccer manager was using my house for adulterous purposes with a young female on his staff .
28 And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’
29 I made my displeasure on that score quite clear to the ecclesiarch 's agent .
30 Mm , mm make my way down this way , you over here are you ?
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