Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the words ‘ Porto de ’ ciechi e miseri mortali' in the madrigal ‘ O morte , eterno fin ’ Rore writes what in modern terminology we should call a succession of C major , A major , B minor , G major , C major , and G minor chords . |
| 2 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 3 | ‘ I said , if he harms you in any way I shall explode and blow his head off , ’ said the Thing . |
| 4 | The smell of machine oil reminds me of other guns I 've handled in my time . |
| 5 | At last , their order given , he took a sip of his very dry sherry and said , ‘ This reminds me of that evening we spent together in Bruges — except that your hair was done differently then , and you wore a deep-pink dress . ’ |
| 6 | Mentioning the white chromosome reminds me of another thing I wanted to say , because erm another variant of this incorrect criticism that people made of Darwin about blending , and you still hear this today , and people should know better , especially the social sciences , is , oh , single genes can not influence behaviour . |
| 7 | Contrasting considerably from the Spartan angularity of Siobhan 's bungalow , Kim 's house reminds me of American homes I have seen , lavish with plum and antiques to imitate English country homes . |
| 8 | Like , all their films came , like Alex 's film of er Spain empties the camera basically puts it in this pile they keep in a drawer somewhere of films , okay ? |
| 9 | Another thing that seriously disappoints me about this life I 'm living through : the reading . |
| 10 | If he does it without any help I shall be totally amazed and I think that it 's simply a facility to assume that there 're gon na be reductions in bureaucracy simply by centralising because the record from the past shows that the reverse is the case . |
| 11 | But while this ‘ violence ’ is to be expected within the family , it 's not acceptable when your child does it to other children she encounters . |
| 12 | Quite where the jobs are going and who does what at this stage I 'm not sure now we 're UNISON . |
| 13 | Rosaline chides Berowne , and taxes him with certain conditions he must fulfil if he is to gain her hand ( the Princess and her ladies have responded to the death of the King of France by postponing any further romance for one year ) . |
| 14 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |