Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 2 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 3 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 4 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 5 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 6 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 7 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 8 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 9 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 10 | He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber . |
| 11 | On the ground floor he walked a few feet ahead , leaving me to trundle behind like a meek Arab wife . |
| 12 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 13 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |
| 14 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 15 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't . |
| 17 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 18 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 19 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 20 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 21 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 22 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 23 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 24 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 25 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
| 26 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 27 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 28 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 29 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 30 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |