Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I challenged him with all the dishonesty he had shown and all the damage he was doing to the paper . |
| 2 | Denying that women clients required special handling , she added : ‘ A customer is a customer , I approach them in all the same way . |
| 3 | I saw her at six the following evening . |
| 4 | I took you over many a sea , |
| 5 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 6 | If I do it at half the speed . |
| 7 | He drank my drink because I said something about all the money he was always flashing around and then he made a dirty crack about … |
| 8 | But actually I had her for half an hour to the commands and everything . |
| 9 | And how can I say it in such a way that it is of interest to the people that are likely to listen to it ? ’ |
| 10 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 11 | I sobbed with fright , even as I addressed the one and only question which confronted me in such a dangerous situation . |
| 12 | Also , Lord God , we ask that you remember the dark deeds of any communistic so-called-interrogators , in this time of great upheaval in eastern Europe ; we know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes , and their guttural , Slavic voices cry out to ye for mercy , and ye reward them with all the compassion they ever showed to those unfortunate souls delivered unto them . |
| 13 | As he approached his defeated enemy , he felt no sense of triumph , which surprised him after all the frustrating years of hunting him down . |
| 14 | While the EC was debating its approach to the problems of Eastern Europe the president-elect of another distressed part of the world was nearing the end of a pre-inaugural tour which took him to all the major capitals . |
| 15 | The thing which kept him in such a feverish state was the unmistakable message her brown eyes had sent him as they stood so close together outside her door . |
| 16 | The same year , the society received thirteen massive Assyrian bas-reliefs from the palace of Sardanapalus in Nineveh c.650 B.C. from James Lenox ( one of the founders of the New York Public Library ) and in 1859–60 , the Society purchased a large collection of Egyptian art ( featuring several mummified bulls ) from British physician Dr Henry Abbott for $60,000 ( since 1937 , these have been at the Brooklyn Museum , which purchased them from Flemish the Historical Society in 1978 ) . |
| 17 | The trick is to find a feed that your horse enjoys and which provides him with all the nutrients he requires to do the work you are asking of him . |
| 18 | While G.P. was the one who led us into all the serious things . |
| 19 | Can you make it in half an hour 's time , you know . |
| 20 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 21 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 22 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 23 | Never again would she land herself in such a mess . |
| 24 | But it must not be thought that papal conciliar decrees which seem so clear-cut to the modern scholar , who sees them in all the clarity of the printed page , had a similar force and clarity for contemporaries . |
| 25 | When he had gone through to the bedroom , tired , shaking , cold , she stripped herself of all the finery — fighting with clasps , pushing and twisting rings . |
| 26 | ‘ Yer doin' it fer all the best reasons . |
| 27 | And that ties up When you get it like this a tenth of the speed . |
| 28 | He began to kiss her fingers , one by one , and Meredith gazed helplessly at him , knowing she loved him with such a sudden , painful realisation that she groaned aloud . |
| 29 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 30 | Even given the expenditure that the Government have devoted to the public sector , there can not be many Ministers who find themselves in such a favourable position . |