Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 2 | The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract . |
| 3 | Did you do overtime for last week ? |
| 4 | That 's alright , do you put milk in first or |
| 5 | When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself . |
| 6 | " Have you got news at last ? " she asked eagerly . |
| 7 | They wanted her to model dresses for next year 's catalogue , and she refused . |