Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got through it without a mistake . |
| 2 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 3 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 4 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
| 5 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 6 | His touch lanced through her like a lightning bolt , clenching every muscle and tightening every nerve before filling her with liquid heat . |
| 7 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 8 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
| 9 | Anselm fought for it with a tenacity which is only explicable if the whole scene which we have briefly surveyed is borne in mind : the primacy was the brightest of the dreams which the monks of Canterbury had inherited from their largely silent , ever-beckoning past , and on this question Anselm fell under the spell of the awe-inspiring tradition which he had helped to preserve . |
| 10 | So er she says well you can think about it for a fortnight er you see her daddy put out discos altogether because of the lies but she cos she gets nervous because when she 's telling a lie to you she 'll go red |
| 11 | Can you think about it for a minute . |
| 12 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 13 | She crept through it like a cat , keeping to the shadows , avoiding anybody who might ask what her business was in this place . |
| 14 | Jay drifted through the dazzle to hold her , kissed her agonisingly soft hair , breathed her perfume , kissed her closed wet eyes with a tenderness that stabbed through her with a sword of fire . |
| 15 | ‘ I bought the waterfalls off Lloyd Cole before he moved to America , and the rainbow was specially designed for me by a team of clever scientists . |
| 16 | Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee . |
| 17 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 18 | Test for it with a screwdriver . |
| 19 | It is precisely such a person who can be brought lowest by the hateful things that may be reported about him in a court of law . |
| 20 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 21 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
| 22 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 23 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 24 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 25 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 26 | before us but their plan now is to come after us on a D C nine |
| 27 | K. R. You might be in Park Lane and a fellow 's walking towards you with a suitcase . |
| 28 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 29 | Teal saw torch beams bobbing towards him from a side corridor and grabbed Bernice 's arm . |
| 30 | The Sussex campus was shrinking below me into a collection of children 's play houses , then models , then crumbs , then fly droppings . |