Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 2 | Three tracks are from previous albums — Desperate Move ( driving , excellent and written by JMT stablemate Steve Coleman ) , Body & Soul ( as with Round Midnight below , a standard given a singular and distinctive modern treatment ) and Rock this Calling ( a modern jazz blues ? ) — while four are previously unrecorded by her : the melancholy-then-strident Do n't look Back ( highlight for me of this album ) , the quixotic Soul Melange , the Monk/Williams ‘ standard ’ Round Midnight ( a refreshingly individual rendition ) and My Corner of the Sky ( a modern son , which reminded me of an uptempo Ella Fitzgerald scat rendition … but with a rock group ) ; all bar Round Midnight are Wilson compositions . |
| 3 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 4 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 5 | ‘ Now I know what passed between you over that cup of coffee . ’ |
| 6 | What passed between you on that occasion ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Goes for it in that sort of way . |
| 8 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 9 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 10 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 11 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 12 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 13 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 14 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 15 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 16 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 17 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 18 | Someone — teacher , examiner , ‘ assessor ’ — observes the student at work , or perhaps interacts with him/her in some way , or more commonly analyses products of the student 's work . |
| 19 | Commenting on the criticisms , a Scottish Prison Service spokesman said last night : ‘ We do believe in good industrial relations and we certainly hope the unions will be willing to work with us to that end . ’ |
| 20 | He is not afraid to come before us in this book as a full-blown figure , someone who is quite recognizable ( from earliest school letters and the accounts of Kirkpatrick ) as ‘ the real Lewis ’ but who is also , for the first time , ‘ found ’ as an artistic voice . |
| 21 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 22 | Anyway I wo n't say any more because I 'll other people will eventually go but Hugh Berger is a gentleman who owns it or who lives in it at this time |
| 23 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 24 | I have been asked to write to you on this matter because this hazard was drawn to your attention in my letter of 18th April 1991 following the Annual Parish Meeting . |
| 25 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 26 | Send to me in any event . |
| 27 | er slung on us from another department . |
| 28 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 29 | But I watched , out of a sense of duty admittedly , most of the election news programmes , feeling all the time , these are not relating to me in any way . |
| 30 | Almost all of them had crude magic swords , whose unsuppressed harmonics on the astral plane played hell with any delicate experiments in applied sorcery for miles around , but Rincewind did n't object to them on that score . |