Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
| 2 | My dear George YOU WILL not thank me for congratulating you on a lucky escape . |
| 3 | My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day . |
| 4 | I found myself hating them , hating myself for hating them , hating myself for wanting to say so , hating them for putting me in a position of wanting to say so . |
| 5 | But he did say that er it 'll take three weeks before he can get back to me about sending me to the Law |
| 6 | Then , in 1811 , he cruelly disposed of the remaining senior mamluks , massacring them after entertaining them to a feast in the citadel . |
| 7 | He was n't available , so we then covered ourselves by signing him before the January deadline with a view to playing him when he became available . ’ |
| 8 | Until he knew deep in his belly that he would only ever excel and humble that damnable ‘ brother ’ of his by making himself into a devotee of Lexandro 's existence , akin to a cultist , a protector and preserver of d'Arquebus in his ostentatious recklessness . |
| 9 | He blamed himself for crediting her with a maturity she did not possess , and regretted that his attempts to assist her studies had been so tragically misinterpreted by her . |
| 10 | Er it 's very hard to keep on forgiving somebody for hurting you in the same way over and over again and in this particular example , three times and that 's it . |
| 11 | She said summat about taking him for a picnic . |
| 12 | European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ More fool you for leaving it in a car park , ’ and little Apricot said , ‘ Yes , that 's right , Mum . |
| 14 | Thank you for inviting me to the information evening last week at St Thomas ' . |
| 15 | Thank you for providing me with an excellent short article for the summer edition of Rural Wales . |
| 16 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 17 | Draping an arm about Seb 's shoulders , Noah said , ‘ Thank you for warning us of the magistrate 's approach , Seb . |
| 18 | After the show , ’ said the fräulein , following an emotional and discursive preamble , ‘ the dresser woman I told you about introduced us to a man called Fedorov . |
| 19 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 20 | When faced with one ‘ old boy type ’ executive' who on meeting her with a view to beginning an assignment declared that there was no place for women in his business , she announced that as he was obviously only looking for someone just like himself , he could do that better than she could . |
| 21 | The French fabliau Boivin de Provins , for instance , treats the prostitutes just as one source of sexually desirable and available women , and laughs with the man who is able to con them into providing him with a whore for free . |
| 22 | After the first day we were two shots behind Dai Rees and Kel Nagle , who we owed one for beating us by a shot the year before . |
| 23 | And something like hit me from the inside , |
| 24 | God did everything except push them into the land . |
| 25 | He found them before putting them through the saw ? |
| 26 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 27 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 28 | When I arrived at Althorp the housekeeper , Joyce Cole , told me that she had orders banning me from touching anything in the house . |
| 29 | What hope is there of saying anything about a whole work , if each small sentence deserves to be scrutinized in this way ? " |
| 30 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |