Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 2 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 3 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 4 | ‘ May I speak to you in private ? |
| 5 | I 've never covered things like comparative questions , when I talk to you about close and , you know basically what I 'm talking to you about |
| 6 | I stared at him in great surprise . |
| 7 | I looked at her in mock sternness . |
| 8 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 9 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 10 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 11 | I spoke for us with blinding certainty . |
| 12 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 13 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 14 | As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back . |
| 15 | She gazed at him in blank astonishment . |
| 16 | She gazed at him in horrified disbelief as realisation hit home . |
| 17 | She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’ |
| 18 | It teaches you remain in him In other words remain in his word and let it remain in you . |
| 19 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 20 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 21 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 22 | If you look at it in shallow terms like that you are making a mistake . |
| 23 | Would you work at it with other women , or are you a loner in that respect ? |
| 24 | Perkin on her other side was saying contritely , ‘ Sorry , darling , sorry , ’ and she turned to him with ever-ready forgiveness , the adult of the pair . |
| 25 | Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt . |
| 26 | I am starkly awake , and she delivers to me through sleepy lips the cause of her outcry . |
| 27 | She glanced at him in quick surprise , wondering what sort of favour he could possibly have in mind . |
| 28 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 29 | She grabbed at it in irritable haste . |
| 30 | Stopping in her tracks , she stared at him with cool , blank eyes and freed her arm . |