Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 2 | After coffee I announced myself eager for the fleecy crook of Morpheus ' shoulder , and they buggered off . |
| 3 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
| 4 | ‘ Every time I got them involved with the story , ’ Hopper explained , ‘ I 'd come back at them and say , ‘ Ha , ha , it 's only a movie … ’ ’ |
| 5 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 6 | I got my I got my vertical from the one at Newark and the venetian blind centre . |
| 7 | I got it cheap at the Co-op at Lyme . |
| 8 | I got it second-hand from a foundry in Sunderland that closed down last year . |
| 9 | I expect nothing short of a bloodbath . |
| 10 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 11 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 12 | On departure , many of the younger guests , deeming themselves insufficiently primed , were about to ‘ go on ’ somewhere , and in the end I found myself alone on the pavement with Eliot . |
| 13 | I found myself alone with a man the skin of whose face had the texture of hide , tanned the colour of stout . |
| 14 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 15 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 16 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 17 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 18 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 19 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 20 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 21 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
| 22 | I picture it safe in the hands |
| 23 | then I pedalled myself blue in the face on the Exercise Machine . |
| 24 | I threw myself flat beside the corpse . |
| 25 | P.S. I am Gabby 's biggest fan so I consider myself neutral on the Graf/Seles controversy . |
| 26 | Shortly after Dick took off in his P-40 , Bill Dodds and I joined him airborne in a T-6 . |
| 27 | I know they open on a Sunday now . |
| 28 | I like it dry as a bone , " Aunt Tossie was saying . |
| 29 | I get it free from the sawmill . ’ |
| 30 | Thereupon I kissed her full on the lips . |