Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] a [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 | Pretty silly of me to give you a false name , but I have n't much experience of — of — ‘ |
| 4 | 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 ) ! |
| 5 | It was just mean of him to give me a rotten old Bible instead . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her first sight of it gave her a severe shock . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | . Is it possible for you to give me a few more names — of some people who are working in that field ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is as if the economy , the restraint of much of the writing passed over onto them to give them a curious accidental dignity . |
| 12 | Contact with her brought him a brief feeling of reality . |
| 13 | Everything about him makes him a tricky subject . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning . |
| 16 | Er and I say I want to come on the on the phone and I want to talk to James , I want to put him straight , I tell him that we 're not doing this and I want to tell him that we actually erm know that er the people will be concerned about us giving ourselves a huge pay rise . |