Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 2 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 3 | And my father was her shepherd so nobody asks us to their houses , so I never met people like this before and Aunt Emily is trying to bring me out and she 's so sweet , so generous . |
| 4 | in other words if you read it without any experience you might start thinking that it 's giving you a vision of the real heaven where as it 's just symbolic |
| 5 | The Lady 's last opponent shifted his seat until he faced her across the board . |
| 6 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 7 | So I got up immediately and said it would be the end of a beautiful friendship if he accused me of necrophilia ! |
| 8 | A who has a new Rolls-Royce car , says to B , I will give you my car if you fetch it from the garage . ’ |
| 9 | A who has an ancient and dilapidated Rolls-Royce immobilised in his garage says to B , ’ I will give you my car if you fetch it from the garage . ’ |
| 10 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 11 | You use my deodorant if I leave it in there . |
| 12 | How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit ! |
| 13 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 14 | In other words teachers and schools will readily seek to improve their practice if they regard it as part of their professional responsibility , whereas they are likely to resist change that is forced on them . |
| 15 | Mrs Currie says she does not agree with the ‘ dual mandate ’ — politicians sitting both at Westminster and Strasbourg , and intends resigning her Westminster seat if she makes it to Strasbourg . |
| 16 | The command PRINT ‘ Hello World ’ is an instruction to print the message ‘ Hello World ’ on the screen but Qbasic does n't obey this command until you tell it to . |
| 17 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 18 | I remember a lingering preference for Ruth Etting because she reminded me of Marion Brown . |
| 19 | ‘ We need him as president because it takes him off the streets , ’ said his close pal , David Leopoulis . |
| 20 | They would have nothing to do with recognised ‘ sinners ’ such as tax-collectors because they considered them to be immoral . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 22 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 23 | Write down your words before you speak them into the tape . |
| 24 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 25 | Do unto your enemy before he does it unto you , but always make sure his back 's turned ! ) |
| 26 | ‘ We thought , ’ put in Bith , who was feeling a bit bolder now that Goibniu had approved their ideas , ‘ we thought that the lady — that is Reflection 's daughter — might like to see the designs before we put them to the forge , your honour . ’ |
| 27 | THE Roux brothers ' former restaurant in Old Bailey , renamed Le Sous Sol after they sold it in 1989 , is in administrative receivership . |
| 28 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 29 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 30 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |