Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 3 | This can be particularly useful , because although your dog may well master these quite readily in the privacy of your garden , it will also need to perform them with your encouragement in the totally different environment of the training hall , in the company of other dogs . |
| 4 | He has to wear it at his mother 's wedding . ’ |
| 5 | Efforts were made to send Jewish teachers with Jewish evacuees ( British and refugee ) , and a letter went out to all RCM children who had been uprooted reminding them of their faith and upbringing . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight . |
| 7 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 8 | By the same token , Edwin told me that Gifford stopped using it after his stroke . ’ |
| 9 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 10 | But music has sustained you throughout your life . |
| 11 | She went to sleep , and woke to growl , ‘ Me least , ’ and he put a bath towel round her and tried to carry her into his bed-sitting room , but he was too frail to do it and she had to wake up again to walk by herself . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've come to see you about your son , Aspirant . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Actually , I have come to see you on his behalf , ’ said Mary pompously . |
| 14 | The specification was also very comprehensive , and the 1987 version added the significant message that heads and coordinators should select from and adapt the list rather than seek to implement it in its entirety . |
| 15 | We have chosen your shorts , I now propose to instruct you in their origin and past life . |
| 16 | Major Tzann wants to see you in his office , right away . ’ |
| 17 | If we make sure of the right answer to these questions we will develop the full , clear picture of God that he himself has given us in his revelation . |
| 18 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 19 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 20 | Martina has delighted me with her form for 14 years which I 'd like to thank her for . |
| 21 | Selling forward means selling the foreign currency today for delivery at the time you expect to receive it from your customer . |
| 22 | Doug wants to sell it at its street value , which is two million dollars . |
| 23 | The consequences of our choice are serious , because God has made us in his image and likeness . |
| 24 | John Fordham describes the latest attempts to relieve Alexandra Palace of the jinx which has dogged it since its opening 116 years ago . |
| 25 | nice way of saying if you want to help her with her maths sheets please do . |
| 26 | Unable to think of anything else to do , I suggested to Eileen that we tried regressing her to her childhood . |
| 27 | I AM ready for death in this DOMINION he 'd written , if I know that the Unbeheld has used me as His INSTRUMENT . |
| 28 | ‘ She has got you under her thumb , Peter , old boy . |
| 29 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 30 | No-one has thought it worth their while to eulogize or anathematize schools like Burleigh . |