Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 2 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 3 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 4 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 5 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 6 | I think that I put it the other way round last time . |
| 7 | I am glad we have that partnership with all of you here and it is on that note , on behalf of the government , that I wish you every possible success as you embark upon your seventy fifth year . |
| 8 | Because we made love , because I 'm physically attracted to you , it does n't mean that I owe you an involved explanation of my private life . ’ |
| 9 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 10 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 11 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 12 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 13 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 14 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 15 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 16 | Anne felt that she considered her a green fool , and Mabel was indignant that Hetty was very ready to accept the ‘ perks ’ of the job , such as the cakes and bread given to the staff by Mrs Dyson , and the extra money from Mr Dyson , but was always on the alert for any infringement of her rights . |
| 17 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 19 | He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning . |
| 20 | She wanted to wound him as he was wounding her so she gave him a charming smile and said , ‘ How did you feel , Fernando , when Maria Luisa slid into your bed at that hour ? ’ |
| 21 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 22 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 23 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 24 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 25 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 26 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 27 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 28 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 29 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 30 | EPC 's expertise brings significant benefits to its members in the water and process industries , and the club 's continuing expansion indicates that they find it a cost-effective extension of in-house resources , as well as a focal point for keeping abreast of developments in the field of effluent treatment . |