Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope that Pat Kennedy will be able to work with us on this and intend to invite the student teachers to participate . |
| 2 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 3 | ‘ … I wanted to talk to you about this and that . ’ |
| 4 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
| 5 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 6 | when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it |
| 7 | Look after her like this and she is a sweet tempered old soul . |
| 8 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 9 | Look at it like this and it will make you and the music feel good ! |
| 10 | Do n't you look at me like that or I 'll shove it up your arse . |
| 11 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 12 | Graham refused to run with me after that and in India , as he builds up for his first attempt at the London Marathon next year , he can find some other mug to tramp the streets of Delhi or Bombay with him . |
| 13 | It was the first time that anybody had ever spoken to me like that and I was shocked . |
| 14 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 15 | As a complete an utter novice I am seeking a publication that will explain to me in more or less layman 's terms how my computer works and what I should/could be doing with it ! |
| 16 | Erm erm they just went through it like that and then he gave her instructions on how to fly it as well , how to throw it |
| 17 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 18 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 19 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 20 | It has n't been ploughed or sprayed or anything artificial put on it at all and it 's the old natural grasses . |
| 21 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 22 | Meredith 's sympathetic understanding did n't register on him at all and , judging by the malevolent turn to his sensually modelled mouth , he was absorbed in mentally tearing to shreds whoever had stood him up . |
| 23 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |