Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took the pins from my hair to dry it a bit and it sprang free . |
| 2 | I hope it will be my privilege to buy you a drink as well . |
| 3 | So I forced my Mum to buy me a guitar — it was just a crappy acoustic , with the strings about an inch away from the frets . ’ |
| 4 | We had had our school trial in the concrete playground and I had made the team ; so here I was , complete with black Curtis plimsolls ( I had had to ask my Mum to buy me a pair ) and white ‘ Alf Ramsey ’ shorts . |
| 5 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 6 | ‘ Otherwise , I will use my influence to find you an apprenticeship at one of the better fashion establishments . ’ |
| 7 | It was part of my job to give them a crash course . |
| 8 | I want six pairs of feet and then I 'd have to stand on my head to give them a rest ’ . |
| 9 | If I do n't persuade my father to sell you the club , you 'll manufacture enough fake information to make the police suspicious enough to close me down ? ’ |
| 10 | These days this happens when you check in and of course I was asked to open my suitcase to show them the contents . |
| 11 | I almost feel it 's my duty to show you the error of your ways . |
| 12 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 13 | Her attempts to teach them a step was hysterical . |
| 14 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 15 | Alyssia opened her mouth to give him a piece of her mind at this further show of arrogance — in fact , to give him the sack , because his mere presence here implied that he was working for her father , and so , in an indirect manner , for herself — but he did n't allow her the chance . |
| 16 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 17 | Upset and infuriated by such cavalier treatment , made miserable and guilty by her failure to tell him the truth , she gritted her teeth and stayed still and mute , trying not to blink as the angry tears welled up . |
| 18 | Prosecutors did not go ahead with charges that she plotted to handle part of the proceeds of the robbery by allowing her husband to buy her a Tudor mansion . |
| 19 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 20 | Despite all her efforts to ignore it the sensation lingered on to torment her long after the contact had been broken . |
| 21 | They 're now sitting up in bed , waiting for their aunt to give them a kiss — and looking like little angels , ’ Julie told her , adding with a grin , ‘ which , of course , they are n't ! ’ |
| 22 | Helen half-turned and tipped her toes to show him the grazes on her calves . |
| 23 | The NRA are doing their utmost to make it a home from home . |
| 24 | I do n't think it was her mother to tell you the truth . |
| 25 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 26 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 27 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 28 | The Bomb Circle , my dad 's leg and his stick , his reluctance to get me a motorbike perhaps , the candles in the skull , the legions of dead mice and hamsters — they 're all the fault of Agnes , my father 's second wife and my mother . |
| 29 | One high-earning salesperson of office equipment attributed his success to the preparation he conducted before every sales visit ; this involved knowing his product 's capabilities , understanding his client 's needs , and matching these together by getting his wife to test him every evening and at the weekend ( Kennedy et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 30 | She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last . |