Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You ca n't expect me to agree with you on every single thing , Papa , " he said , keeping his voice low so that it did not carry to Senator Sherman and his sons , who were strung out in single file on their ponies behind them . |
| 2 | And I 've still nothing to report to you on the buses or trains . |
| 3 | And I 've nothing to report to you on the buses or trains . |
| 4 | British rail tell us that the Scotland to Brighton train which is due to call at Oxford at 5.35 is running 2 hours late this evening , but I have nothing to report to you from the buses . |
| 5 | British Rail tell us their services are running to schedule this evening and I 've nothing to report to you from the bus services in the area . |
| 6 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 7 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 8 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 9 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 10 | A man I 'd met only twice , a bit of a loner , invited me to go with him to the West Indies . |
| 11 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 12 | The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States . |
| 13 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 14 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 15 | Peter called to him : ‘ Lord if it is you , tell me to come to you over the water . ’ |
| 16 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 17 | In any proceeding in which no pre-trial review has been fixed , the district judge may nonetheless give notice to the parties requiring them to appear before him on the day named in the notice , so that the question of giving directions may be considered ( Ord 17 , rr 10 and 11(4) ) . |
| 18 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 19 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
| 20 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
| 21 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 22 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
| 23 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 24 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 25 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 26 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 27 | Could I stay with you for a few days and learn how you manage without magic ? " |
| 28 | You were on a raised platform and I passed before you in the parade . " |
| 29 | I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination . |
| 30 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |