Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
| 2 | To me that puts us in a difficult position when trying Germans , whose crime was obeying their superiors ’ orders , whatever our horror at what those orders led to . ’ |
| 3 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 4 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 5 | But Richard 's polite attempt to straighten himself and to give something like a slight bow made the damage to his lung rather worse . |
| 6 | He could think of nothing but disguising himself and rushing her on a dark night . |
| 7 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
| 8 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 9 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 10 | And then , I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change ; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady — because there was a little something between us . |
| 11 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 12 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 13 | I took your violets home with me and have them in a vase in my room , and Mrs Gracie the housekeeper ( who owns the pug ) takes them out at night as she says they poison the air when one is asleep . |
| 14 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 15 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 16 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 17 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |
| 18 | The case manager passes the reports to the lawyer who completes them and passes them to a supervisor . |
| 19 | Actually my son 's rather disappointed , he was hoping to farm them and train them into a novelty act . |
| 20 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
| 21 | Where were all those young hopefuls , who even in their crippled state had left death behind them and saw nothing but a future ? |
| 22 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 23 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
| 24 | If there is someone at work whose approach to patients or clinical abilities you admire then observe them and use them as a role model . |
| 25 | unless they 're going to let , unless people are going to buy them and let them at a reasonable rent to people |
| 26 | I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina . |
| 27 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 28 | Peel , halve and core them and place them in a saucepan … cover with the wine and a broken cinnamon stick and heat until barely simmering … wash the monkfish and pat dry with kitchen paper … just as the liquid begins to caramelise , add the lemon juice and stir vigorously … reduced to a quarter of its original volume … add the cubes one at a time … thread the piece of monkfish … reserving the liquid … baste the fruit continuously … intersperse with pears … hand the sauce separately … |
| 29 | Then there was a heavy pause , like the moment a ball must feel between the time it 's thrown up and the time it starts to come down , and something picked up all three of them and slid them into a struggling heap . |
| 30 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |