Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It would be possible for me to call them all if they were to limit their speeches to 10 minutes .
2 And that for you to take them all
3 But it 's getting easier for me to blend it all now ; I certainly do n't get as stuck as I did four or five months ago . ’
4 It was wrong of me to write you such an angry note : please accept my apologies .
5 And he had half of I gave him that banana desert .
6 Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much .
7 Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much .
8 ‘ I see nothing humorous in suggesting my query was directed at the waiter , and nothing funny in your eyeing him that way as if the implication were a consideration .
9 It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’
10 It has never , of course , been my privilege to have seen such things at first hand , but I will nevertheless hazard this with some confidence : the English landscape at its finest — such as I saw it this morning — possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations , however more superficially dramatic , inevitably fail to possess .
11 There are far too many for me to examine them all properly in this article .
12 Q : It 's good of you to see me this evening .
13 So it 's mean of you to begrudge me half a sentence . ’
14 ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’
15 ‘ It was nice of him to give you that bracelet .
16 Was that nice of me to get you that wool ?
17 I suppose you 're frightened of me messing it all up for you , with my dirty boots and all that … . ’
18 ( Both of them told me this ! ) ’
19 Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him .
20 And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way .
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