Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them . |
| 3 | And he stopped me and said : ‘ Son , I saw ye practising , and I 've always found with a player of your capabilities it is best to tell them to hit it straight at the pin ! ’ |
| 4 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 5 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 6 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 7 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 8 | ‘ It was very competitive with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back as they tried to become stars . |
| 9 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 10 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
| 11 | we 'll have to let them catch you right at the right , where the music tells you too , dum , oh |
| 12 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 13 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 14 | I asked her once about the packet . |
| 15 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 16 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 17 | I lowered myself down off the fence . |
| 18 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 19 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 20 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 21 | Yes , I have I posted it off during the week to My Weekly , because I thought because the it was about a girl in all trouble , I think it |
| 22 | I chucked it out in the end . |
| 23 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 24 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 25 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 26 | I made one yesterday in a meat tin and so Lynn had a lump and I got a lump and you here . |
| 27 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
| 28 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 29 | I mean I normally in the past I 've always gone for experienced keepers because you know I mean they they do n't come to their prime until , I do n't think goalkeepers over twenty six twenty seven onwards . |
| 30 | Then , slowly , she fell forward and I laid her gently on the ground . |