Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm afraid it 's impossible for me to give you a definite answer . ’
2 It just remains for me to wish you a prosperous and happy one .
3 They are looking for someone to give them a helping hand . ’
4 In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab .
5 Pretty silly of me to give you a false name , but I have n't much experience of — of — ‘
6 This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) !
7 This area to São Vicente is very sparsely populated and the road Passes through numerous tunnels and past cascading waterfalls , some of which give you a free car-wash , even in the summer when there has been no rain for months .
8 The trouble was that being a good club player , even being an outstanding club player , does not of itself make you a worthy international , and it was Waldron 's failure to recognise this of his own Neath players that contributed as much as anything to his downfall .
9 It was just mean of him to give me a rotten old Bible instead . ’
10 Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder .
11 Her first sight of it gave her a severe shock .
12 Blood was dripping from her right hand , The sight of it gave her a funny cold feeling inside , and the thought flashed through her mind : ‘ Shall I be able to paint again ? ’
13 It was serious , set in purpose , and the sight of it gave her an agreeable feeling of submission to higher powers .
14 ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ?
15 All of us did it the whole time .
16 The second is a mutual agreement that substantive conditions of supply will hold , for example ‘ in exchange for you granting me an exclusive territory , I promise to sell only your products in that territory ’ .
17 I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall .
18 It is as if the economy , the restraint of much of the writing passed over onto them to give them a curious accidental dignity .
19 Contact with her brought him a brief feeling of reality .
20 And as her body and limbs thrummed in the dizzy afterflow Fernando deepened his penetration , shuddering against her till she clung to him , grinding herself under him to give him the ultimate pleasure , to enhance every thrust he pounded into her , to draw him hard down into her power and her love .
21 She was smaller than Jenna with none of Jenna 's slender , willowy height , but she was so healthy-looking that the fact in itself gave her an added attraction .
22 To wit , the kind of speed on to man and ball and to the breakdown which would in itself render it a great deal more difficult for the All Blacks to make the Lions ' pack look heavy-footed to the point of statuesque .
23 ‘ We are falling away from what made us a good side .
24 Everything about him makes him a tricky subject .
25 ‘ And , as he said in his letter , it was all right for him to rough it a little while he was on his own , but he has Elise to think of now . ’
26 ‘ I wanted to speak to you before I saw Ursula , ’ she concluded , ‘ because she might object to my giving you the private detective 's report on Maurice 's finances . ’
27 It 's up to you to give him the visual reference material from which he can start planning his camera angles , his cast positionings , etc . ’
28 The snow hook is actually on the end of the tow line so that in the unlikely event of the karabiner unhooking — as it did once on me — — the hook stays close to you giving you an outside chance of holding on to the team .
29 and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ?
30 In fact , without his realizing it a rising tide of change was lapping around his ankles .
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