Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them .
2 Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard .
3 No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign .
4 Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years .
5 I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape !
6 Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway .
7 In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from .
8 Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall …
9 And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out …
10 He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’
11 The Prince wants me to go to a bloody ball . ’
12 ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’
13 ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament .
14 Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication .
15 Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell .
16 For a few hours each day the HCI Captain keeps them occupied like a regular Mary Poppins with games excursions and rehearsals for junior showtime .
17 I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis .
18 It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there .
19 The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF .
20 These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names .
21 Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination .
22 Cooking procedures : most of the meals do not need cooking , just add hot water and leave them to stand for a few minutes .
23 There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small .
24 Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way .
25 The heading ‘ Letterman productions , Hollywood , London , paris ’ , with a movie camera logo , seems to me to come from a comic book , but it obviously reminds Mr Shah of his brief association with Ava Gardner , Clark Gable and John Ford .
26 Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship .
27 ( 1981 ) also shows how positive measures to meet the needs of visually handicapped pupils can help them to flourish in a happy community atmosphere .
28 He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug .
29 When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image .
30 The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits .
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