Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 2 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 3 | Oh yes , he ditched Graham who 's looked after him for over ten years through thick and thin , and mainly thin , in favour of Mike Martinez . ’ |
| 4 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
| 5 | In practice variations so caused are few : in every land the total number of list seats nearly always turns out to be either the same as the total number of constituency seats or to differ from it by only one or two . |
| 6 | To make sure that these components met the quality standards needed by the main plant , the company despatched , at its own expense , what they described to us with only mild exaggeration as ‘ a regiment of engineers ’ from Detroit , some of whom stayed down in Brazil for months advising the subcontractors on how to meet the company 's standards . |
| 7 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 8 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 9 | She felt sorry she had disturbed the usual calmness of a man she respected , but considered she could not apologize to him without either offending or encouraging him . |
| 10 | Allison had three spells at City , returning to them after apparently unbreachable rifts like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 12 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Jason Gardiner played for us over here last night and he did very well , but Airdrie in the Premier League is a different proposition altogether . |
| 14 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 15 | Then in a lowered voice , she added , ‘ What would I do with her in here all day ? |
| 16 | ‘ Are you sure they wo n't mind having a total stranger thrust upon them without as much as a by your leave ? ’ |
| 17 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 18 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 19 | How dare you speak to me in so insolent a fashion ? ’ she growled , almost choking with rage . |
| 20 | The ruling means that a lot of people , most of them women , are unlikely to be compensated for serious psychological damage done to them at very young ages . ’ |
| 21 | Minnie had written to her about how terrible it had been , how Captain Cook had brought his wife up to see a specialist who had examined her and said at once there was nothing to be done , there was no operation possible , and he must take his wife home to die . |
| 22 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 23 | I used to have my hair shaved , now I let it grow — people react to me in very different ways when I have hair and when I do n't ’ . |
| 24 | An understanding of this renders it much easier to comprehend the no evidence doctrine and the reasons for the exceptions made to it in more recent years . |
| 25 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 26 | Vi ate steadily , rhythmically , savouring every bite , looking around her at yet another facet of this , her strange new life . |
| 27 | A child of ‘ mixed race ’ is therefore seen by them as not black and not white , but closer to white than black . |
| 28 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 29 | I says I want to listen to it , you know , I said I 've heard it with C D going through it with about four sets of speakers , but I want to listen to it through eight sets of speakers with cassette , a cassette that I like to make sure , to my type , he says I guarantee you now you will like it , he says you will like he says , he says we do a ten day er return thing , he says you buy something , he says you bring it back within ten days undamaged we 'll give you money back if you do n't like the quality of the sound , for whatever reason we 'll give you your money back . |
| 30 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |