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

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1 It is a safe bet to assume this competition will present no problems for them leaving them the first pipe band in history to collect every available award and go undefeated for the duration of the season .
2 ‘ I 'm afraid it 's impossible for me to give you a definite answer . ’
3 It just remains for me to wish you a prosperous and happy one .
4 It would be wrong for me to anticipate what the final conclusions of CAJEC , and the Councils of the Institutes ( which will ultimately have to make the decision on the current ‘ hot ’ topics ) will be .
5 She obviously waited for me to prove myself an old toper , but I did not .
6 Her eyes sought out his to divine what the real mood was : Hope jammed her gaze with a glazed and bland smile .
7 Pretty silly of me to give you a false name , but I have n't much experience of — of — ‘
8 That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about .
9 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 ) !
10 It was just mean of him to give me a rotten old Bible instead . ’
11 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 .
12 Her first sight of it gave her a severe shock .
13 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 ? ’
14 It was serious , set in purpose , and the sight of it gave her an agreeable feeling of submission to higher powers .
15 If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice .
16 All of us did it the whole time .
17 . Is it possible for you to give me a few more names — of some people who are working in that field ? ’
18 Erm I think it would be useful for you do one the same way .
19 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 ’ .
20 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 .
21 It is as if the economy , the restraint of much of the writing passed over onto them to give them a curious accidental dignity .
22 Contact with her brought him a brief feeling of reality .
23 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 .
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 It has occurred to me to wonder what the previous experience has been of youngsters who savagely assault old people , whether they have ever been close to an old person .
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 I would tell other girls who suspect they have an exercise problem similar to mine to ask themselves the following questions : Do I take more exercise than is necessary for health and fitness ?
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