Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I worked at my translations I heard him mutter and grunt at his desk . |
| 2 | Yet when I was having my baby they made me feel as though I should n't be having it . |
| 3 | But looking up at Ilbrec she saw such a heartbroken sorrow that without a word she let him stoop and take Fand from her . |
| 4 | ‘ The devil ! ’ he uttered , and as her hands left its edge he let her go and seized the tray before it could fall . |
| 5 | The last thing I heard you say before I left the receiver to its own devices was something like ‘ Some of us here have been reading your books … ’ |
| 6 | One of the things you , you 've got to do is get used to actually talking standing up and the first thing you do you find when you s talk standing up is you discover that you 've got hands . |
| 7 | Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound . |
| 8 | I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning . |
| 9 | You 'll pay only for the amount of cover you feel you need because the Midland Personal Accident Plan provides two levels of cover — Gold Cover and Silver Cover , for less than twice the monthly cost . |
| 10 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 11 | David was n't very happy about me being so blunt , but I think in a way it made him realise that I was really straightforward and that I really did care . |
| 12 | Either way it makes you feel that you still have your wheels on the track . |
| 13 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 14 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 15 | When I see Rachel 's trembling face it makes me gasp like I 've been hit . |