Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean with something like British Gas erm to make the enormous profit they 've made surely it must be possible to reduce the price to the consumer . |
| 2 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 3 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 4 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 5 | ‘ Am I looking for anything in particular ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ May I speak to you in private ? |
| 7 | I nodded to myself in heartfelt agreement ( in those days children did not comment unless asked , and their presence was usually forgotten ) . |
| 8 | I love it because it means I get to lots of other countries and see different people and different cultures , and I hate it because it is such a hassle and keeps me away from my family and friends . |
| 9 | ‘ In other words , we would not vote for the ball being thrown in any direction , for instance to someone running onto it from deep . |
| 10 | I 've never covered things like comparative questions , when I talk to you about close and , you know basically what I 'm talking to you about |
| 11 | I stared at him in great surprise . |
| 12 | I looked at her in mock sternness . |
| 13 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 14 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 15 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 16 | Prayer for strength is appropriate at any stage of our lives and might well be made daily but that does not invalidate the usefulness of marking one day in our life when someone prays over us in public and asks that out of the treasures of his glory , God may grant you strength and power through his spirit in your inner being that through faith cast may dwell in your hearts in love . |
| 17 | I spoke for us with blinding certainty . |
| 18 | I spoke to lots of different people , and got plenty of information . |
| 19 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 20 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 21 | So , if this way of looking at the world is what starts up that vital fire in your imagination , then you would do well to take Watson 's top and have as your hero someone imbued with plenty of ordinary commonsense . |
| 22 | However , virtually nothing came of them except occasional improvements . |
| 23 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 24 | None of which is helped by the unruly belches of guitar and stacks of sonic crockery which crash around her with alarming frequency … |
| 25 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
| 26 | But no one ever mentions two things which seem to me of prime importance in the whole relationship saga . |
| 27 | Nobody talked to her in particular , but she was sitting opposite Miles and , from time to time , a smile flew roughly in her direction , for which she was grateful . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud . … |
| 29 | As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back . |
| 30 | She gazed at him in blank astonishment . |