Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek and I kind of study them for we for hours do n't we ? |
| 2 | The following morning , three of the six were eventually discovered at various positions around the living room , the faint glimmer of life making me change my mind about dispatching them to the waste bin . |
| 3 | ‘ But my intention in bringing you in here was never to enjoy the pleasure of your body . |
| 4 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 5 | I sort of sprang it on you back in the studio , so you hardly had time to think . ’ |
| 6 | I sort of regard myself as a sort of a dual nationality now , but that 's one thing I 'll be looking at , er in the next few months hopefully . |
| 7 | I sort of pummelled him on the chest , that was all . |
| 8 | ‘ I sort of pride myself on being a normal human being and not a rock caricature , not pandering to people 's expectations of being psychopaths or cray-ZEE ! people … ’ |
| 9 | They had drugged my wine before moving me to that horror-filled garden . |
| 10 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |
| 11 | Anyway , I sat down and tried to put you right out of my head by immersing myself in work . |
| 12 | I could not prevent my father from tricking him into marrying me instead of Rachel . |
| 13 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 14 | The success or failure of this operation is certainly not under discussion here , my reason for bringing it in being simply to point out that music , even good music , can be written which does not abide by standard formal principles . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm building up my credibility by fighting someone like Tony Tucker while Bowe loses his by taking on people like his last opponent , Michael Dokes , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Once he was wealthy enough , he began taking time out each winter to fulfil personal projects , ‘ It 's my way of putting something of myself into my work . |
| 17 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 18 | ‘ But actually , being in that situation really helped to develop my ear , because a guy would come for a lesson and ask me to show him a lick from some song or other , which kind of put me on the spot ! |
| 19 | Giving reasons , therefore , raises our thoughts and actions from the here and now and from their singularity by placing them in the context of a wider perspective or tradition . |
| 20 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 21 | It was never in dispute that her action in removing them from Australia was unlawful in the context of article 3 of the Convention . |
| 22 | The Movement came to her aid by sending her on a secretarial course and finding her a part-time job with a City accountant . |
| 23 | If he was lucky and the bird ended up in the net , the Birdman would extract it and , with a deft flick , break its neck before adding it to others in a canvas bag carried round his waist . |
| 24 | Her virtuosity with language is not in doubt ( and all credit to her translator for rendering it with such vitality ) . |
| 25 | And it 's possible that the curious telephone conversation in the flat , with its reference to postponing something for a week , related to your time limit . |
| 26 | They have no gills , but obtain their oxygen by absorbing it through the skin of their body and greatly enlarged tails . |
| 27 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 28 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 29 | She cloaked her embarrassment at seeing him by rushing into speech . |
| 30 | Inevitably , since there are only twelve tissue salt preparations , an attempt was made with varying degrees of success to enlarge their scope by mixing them in an effort to cover other symptomatologies . |