Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [det] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing that in mind , which of these do you think you 'll have to give up ? |
| 2 | Delahoussaye continued : ‘ Racing is so competitive when you are out there on the track , but when something like this happens you know it could be you next time . |
| 3 | ‘ Something like this makes you believe in yourself that much more , ’ said Toleafoa , whose father is a consulate-general for Western Somoa , but who qualifies to play for New Zealand because of her mother . |
| 4 | I 'm sure it was Jan egging him on that got him expelled from the Rainbow Crche . |
| 5 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |
| 6 | Giving an account of it like this makes me feel as though you 're asking me to account for it , explain it for you . |
| 7 | But expressing it like this makes it look as if there could be a quality of ‘ in-the-foot-ness ’ , and this is absurd since position is not a quality . |
| 8 | ‘ Did n't anyone at all see him go out ? ’ asked Mervyn . |
| 9 | It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion . |
| 10 | You know the housing office If say you 've got need any repairs or anything , if you 've got any problems , do you do you use them at all do you go and go and see them ? |
| 11 | What distinguishes W. from them , and what with all respect I do not think that Thorpe J. took sufficiently into account ( perhaps because the point did not emerge as clearly before him as it did before us ) , is that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 12 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 13 | A child 's breathless wailing calmed by the firm slap of the father 's hand , a dead ant revived by the careless press of a passing sole , a wounded finger healed and sealed by the knife 's blade : anything like that made me flinch and veer . |