Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves . |
| 2 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 3 | Did the union act for you at this particular time then ? |
| 4 | It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’ |
| 5 | Acknowledgement of the fact of this fundamental need for a ‘ god ’ , and the need to provide for it in any social order , can be the vital factor in finding a way to ease the sufferings of the world . |
| 6 | I mean , er the thing is if you 've got a name and you want to that 's the time to work for it in that little |
| 7 | Virginia had crept up to her several times trying to be friendly , but each time the house repelled her advances , do n't you dare to come near me with those nasty creepy little fingers she smiled , preventing the new young tendrils finding a hold on her walls . |
| 8 | He says do n't you dare come near me with that silly spray . |
| 9 | The lids were wrinkled above them like old venetian blinds . |
| 10 | The challenge drove him to a healthy distraction , and he was still occupied with it at three thirty in the morning , when the telephone rang . |
| 11 | ‘ Mrs Cecil 's departure was preceded by such an entire sinking of her constitution and by an exhaustion tending so much to lethargy that she was seldom able to converse … and it was a peculiar favour to herself and daughters that Mr Simeon and her excellent son were in the house and watched for every reviving moment to pray or converse with her in all holy tenderness , till she ceased to breathe . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 13 | But the time will soon come when I trust we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies , when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh and only the spark of the spirit will remain . |
| 14 | As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period . |
| 15 | But his path differed from theirs in one important respect . |
| 16 | Those people of prehistory differed from us in one important respect : they did not possess the huge databank of past discoveries which we do . |
| 17 | When Kevin Woodford , owner and chef of Woodfords restaurant on the Isle Of Man asked viewers of ITV 's This Morning programme to write to him about any culinary problems , the letters simply flooded in . |
| 18 | I know that the Minister may not be in a position to respond in detail to the comments made on this subject by the hon. Member for Cardiff , North and me , but I hope that he will take them on board and I ask him to write to us on these important local issues . |
| 19 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , something happened recently which has prompted me to write to you in this unsolicited way , though God knows we were once . |
| 20 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 21 | ‘ What matters to me in this cooperative , ’ he wrote to his wife from Helsinki , ‘ is that they are all well-established people , with left-wing sympathies . |
| 22 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
| 23 | ‘ If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’ |
| 24 | But Christopher Taylor will happily chat to you in any one of 18 languages . |
| 25 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 26 | If the hon. Gentleman writes to me about any individual cases , I shall respond in detail . |
| 27 | The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward … |
| 28 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 29 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
| 30 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |