Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd just like everyone to know for Daddy 's sake that he had nothing to do with it . |
| 2 | There was nobody about to see me knocking on Sally 's door . |
| 3 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 4 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 5 | As we climbed , I asked after Rozanov 's wife , Sonia , and Sasha his son . |
| 6 | Now that one blow is borne out by the examination I made of Aldhelm 's head . |
| 7 | Because , I mean , there you are , look , I mean for argument 's sake , now , well they have e e every Tuesday off or some Monday or Tuesday off do n't he ? |
| 8 | I mean for heaven 's sake , it is only a game . |
| 9 | Mm , yeah , but the thing is I mean with Dave 's mum and dad , I mean it 's like , think , they have the odd weekend away do n't they ? |
| 10 | ‘ I was brought up as one , ’ Frau Nordern said , ‘ but after 1945 … a God who would allow that to happen … that 's what I mean about Omi 's honour . |
| 11 | Well just through , I mean like land ref land reform in itself is n't erm efficient . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah , but I insist for Hercule 's sake . ’ |
| 13 | Where do I need for Kids ' County , what you rang up for ? |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I bumped into Nicola 's husband at the party . |
| 15 | Mr , I 'm moving exactly what I moved at property sub- committee . |
| 16 | I changed into Tommy 's uniform and met some others of the crew : Oliver , who was a waiter in the special dining car , like myself , and several of the sleeping-car attendants , one to each car the whole length of the train . |
| 17 | I changed into Tommy 's uniform in my roomette and went along to the dining car where Emil , Oliver and Cathy welcomed me casually as if I were an accepted part of the crew . |
| 18 | Curious to find out what crucial sound for the nineties he might be buying , I peered over Michael 's shoulder ( not a difficult thing to do ) , only to see … |
| 19 | ‘ Because although she is relieved to think you and Harry are being so well taken care of by Edna and her daughter , she also becomes agitated whenever I touch on Edna 's role in her life when she was very small . ’ |
| 20 | I mused on Toby 's story as I walked towards the clubhouse and so intent was I on my thoughts that I nearly knocked over Sally Drayton as I passed the PGA hut . |
| 21 | Yeah well what I want for Jonathan 's bedroom , you can buy them . |
| 22 | That 's what I used on Rocket 's tummy , when he done , got that had a G two cortezone bathed him with Savlon |
| 23 | We had cause to talk of the most famous when I referred to Gergiev 's handling of the masterly scene in The Queen of Spades where Hermann encounters the withered Countess deshabillée , its shadowy pianissimos conjured with an underlying intensity that brought Mravinsky to mind . |
| 24 | Early in Chapter One I referred to Marthinus ' expression of regret that education persisted in training pupils to see a stone as a specimen and never for itself , to see the handler of a stone as a classifier of specimens and not as important in himself . |
| 25 | I still wake trembling at the-horrors I suffered at Suleiman 's silk-draped , terror-filled court . ) |
| 26 | I noted from Gergiev 's conducting CV that he had n't escaped the grip of the Union of Composers : the works or its secretary- general , the ogre-figure of Tikhon Khrennikov who had been behind the 1948 denunciations of Prokofiev and Shostakovich , are a fairly regular feature . |
| 27 | They got as far as ‘ I 'm a Forrester , I score for Leeds , I hate Man U and I hate Chel-sea ’ , plus the line ‘ I put on women 's clothing , like Eric Cantona ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I imagine from Cadogan 's attitude that that 's the problem . |
| 29 | But if I 'm if I act as devil 's advocate , the fact that that inner route would pass through the greenbelt does not necessarily diminish the purpose of the greenbelt . |
| 30 | Indeed I own myself unworthy and I long to be the servant of even the least religious in the Church of God and I hope by God 's grace to be made a sharer with them … |