Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may accept equity as part of the necessary restructuring of GPA 's debts . |
| 2 | Sir : I must take issue with Janet Daley 's article on a supposed connection between poverty and language ( 4 October ) . |
| 3 | We 'll leave bathing it for the moment ; I must take care of Effie and the afterbirth . ’ |
| 4 | I left the hospital with Drew 's warning eating away at my subconscious , but I knew that I must keep faith with Toby and talk to Froggy 's sister . |
| 5 | Dear Guitarist I feel I must put pen to paper , having just been to an excellent ‘ 30 Years of Jim Marshall ’ evening here in Copenhagen , Denmark . |
| 6 | In the second chapter of Philippians , a little bit before where we read , Paul 's describing the seriousness of the illness of his friend and companion , Ep Aproditus And even although he had written that the thought of his own death caused him no qualms whatever , when he was writing about his friend , Aproditus being at the point of death , he said , But God had mercy on him and not only upon him but on me also lest I should have sorrow on sorrow . |
| 7 | For example , I might assemble code into RAM block and then copy it to the unit plugged in at location . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 9 | Now it 's music first and I 'll leave politics to others . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Tell you what I will do , ’ the adjutant said , ‘ I 'll get hold of everybodies score-card and alter it so you all get full marks . ’ |
| 11 | Good — for a gynaecologist , I 'll get Reception to page one for us . |
| 12 | Taking the jug from his hand , she said in a cool voice , ‘ I 'll take care of Cissie . ’ |
| 13 | and then if I 've got a fiver I 'll have quarterpounder with cheese |
| 14 | I 'll sue TV over Jani , vows Nazi |
| 15 | If I could speak French like François Mitterrand I probably would n't have the empathy I do for young horses . |
| 16 | You and I could have breakfast in bed , Ellen . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish I could get hold of Clarissa . ’ |
| 18 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 19 | I 'd love hair like Isabella Rosselini , but mine 's too thick . |
| 20 | if I do it I 'd drill hole on bonnet and put it in there . |
| 21 | I used to receive money from people I never even knew . |
| 22 | Well I used to cycle from Gedling to Apsley , me debit was at Apsley and I used to have to cycle from there to Apsley and I used to take bit of food an and bread and cheese and pieces of anything I could pick up in me pocket , and I dare n't come home till I 'd got some business . |
| 23 | And erm so she used And then sh I used to take lunch for father and I could n't find him . |
| 24 | But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time . |
| 25 | When I used to buy stuff from M and S , from the staff shop . |
| 26 | I used to pass judgment on sight . |
| 27 | I did in my teens , I used to have breakfast in bed on a Sunday . |
| 28 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 29 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 30 | I would walk north to south , with the wind on my back , and raise sponsorship for the sort of people I had met in Nigeria . |