Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
2 | ‘ I said , if he harms you in any way I shall explode and blow his head off , ’ said the Thing . |
3 | 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 . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ? |
6 | Another thing that seriously disappoints me about this life I 'm living through : the reading . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |