Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I said when I named the squad that the match provided an opportunity for someone to thrust himself into contention for a place in the squad to go to Lisbon next month . |
| 2 | We had gone to the Council Offices to obtain permission for him to take it with him . |
| 3 | I kept waiting in dread for someone to tap you on the shoulder and say , ‘ By the way , you know Damian is chairman of Flint Investments International ! ’ ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They 're far too precious to our heritage for us to allow them to simply moulder away … |
| 5 | ‘ After all , you kind of whetted my interest with the part about me killing somebody on a cash basis . ’ |
| 6 | All six had conquered hardships of their own to help those in need and Celebrities Guild founder Ella Glazer said : ‘ They 're all remarkable people and it 's a pleasure for us to reward them for work which might otherwise go unmarked . ’ |
| 7 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 8 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |
| 9 | The last photograph of herself showed her at about twenty-five , here in the garden at Greystones , sorting apples into baskets . |
| 10 | I play a film over and over again in my mind of me meeting you at the airport . |
| 11 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |
| 12 | There is no close accounting of who owes what to whom but there is a tacit understanding by all concerned that there is a moral obligation to balance things out over a period . |
| 13 | They argue that , for Whitehouse in particular , though after the war her formal ties with the Oxford Group diminished , her years of close association with it provided her with a very clear intellectual approach to the perceived ills of the modern world . |
| 14 | And there are certain situations as if you ca n't have a photograph , in a sense , there 's no point in it , because it , in itself , it 's a rather dry little article , but if you can have a fun photograph with somebody doing something with it , that gives you another dimension , another possibility of a hook , another bit of scope for , for , for getting something into the media . |
| 15 | But , to her intense relief , Ven did not pursue his thoughts in that direction , but continued , ‘ By my reckoning , be it a hire car back to Mariánské Láznë or a taxi to the airport , you 'd most likely need aid from someone to help you with language difficulties . ’ |
| 16 | Her voice was trembling ; he could hear the fear in her pushing it from her control . |
| 17 | Feeling his swift arousal , she dragged her mouth from his to bury it against his warm neck . |
| 18 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 19 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 20 | Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not |
| 21 | It 's incredibly kind of you to meet us on the offchance . |
| 22 | Well to be quite clear I 'm prepared to allow debate on that motion if you wish it to be if the majority of you wish there to be a fight , but if the majority wish the er to pass the vote on the amendment I will take that , do you wish to . |
| 23 | It must be sad and hurtful for any parent to find themselves in this situation , because the vast majority of us have nothing but our children 's good at heart . |
| 24 | It 's not just a case of him taking us with all of what we had and were and us belonging to him , but he says i in taking you to myself , he says I give myself to you . |
| 25 | But Campbell said : ‘ It 's not a case of him talking me into the move . |
| 26 | I do n't think it matters whether or not we call this a case of my distinguishing myself from others . |
| 27 | Was this the moment , he wondered , on this dank pine-shuttered road to Tyler 's Hard , that she had realized , for the first time , that there truly was no turning back , that the momentum of her progress towards whatever awaited her on Profitis Ilias had become irresistible ? |
| 28 | If I make a promise to you in return for your supplying me with three , quite useless , chocolate wrappers , which I will instantly throw away , there is a perfectly good contract provided that the promise was seriously intended ( below , p. 205 ) . |
| 29 | Their ambition increased by the movement , until all forty-one were in violent motion , so violent that the Bowl began to move across the table , and Oscar had to take a firm hold of it to keep it from turning over . |
| 30 | This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England . |