Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 4 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 5 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Joseph Bronson ( HMS Milne ) , of Helmington Terrace , Hunwick , is still waiting for his medal but is expected to receive it within the next few weeks . |
| 7 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 8 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 9 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 10 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 11 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 12 | This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 've come to advise you on the last two appointments to your team . ’ |
| 14 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 15 | European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee . |
| 16 | Oh we 're not , we do n't need to take it till the next one . |
| 17 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 18 | I hope to see you on the 29th at Bronllys . |
| 19 | We hope to see you on the 7th December , especially people from the south and west of the county . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 21 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 22 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 23 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 24 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 25 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 26 | And you 'll be pleased to know that Frank Dobson has agreed to meet us on the fourteenth of June and we will make sure , to the best of our effort , that that policy will be endorsed . |
| 27 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 28 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 29 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 30 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |