Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just stand by me for a little bit longer . |
| 2 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 3 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 4 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 5 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 6 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 7 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 8 | ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo . |
| 9 | ‘ But Miss Everdene can do as she likes , and she 's chosen to manage her own farm — and keep me as an ordinary shepherd only . ’ |
| 10 | Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing about the local connection yet but I 've had a word with the boys at Penzance . |
| 12 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 13 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 14 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |
| 15 | And the sold them for a third profit so what did he sell them for ? |
| 16 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 17 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 18 | Second surprise was the music — a soft waltz coming to her through deep blue dusk , strings and woodwind , as if someone in a grand house up on the hill had just opened the door of the ballroom . |
| 19 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 20 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 21 | Am I on the right line there ? |
| 22 | In fact , it was an ‘ A ’ team player who helped them towards a good victory over highly placed Malshanger on Wednesday last week . |
| 23 | Workers in nuclear and radiographic installations would then not need radiation badges , or monitoring instruments to warn them of the unseen danger all around . |
| 24 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 25 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 26 | ‘ You remind me of a wild animal sometimes , poised ready to flee at the first sight of a hunter 's gun . ’ |
| 27 | Now er reminded me of the next thing really I ought to have got on to . |
| 28 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 29 | The Euro-sceptics argue that Mr Major has established himself as a good European merely to carry credibility when he vetoes monetary union . |
| 30 | He would describe himself as a keen engineer rather than ‘ train spotter . ’ |