Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 2 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 3 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 4 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 5 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 6 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 7 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 8 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 10 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 11 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 12 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 13 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 14 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 15 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 16 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 17 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 18 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
| 19 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 20 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
| 21 | I send you into the parallel continuum with orders to collect the final statue and do nothing more . |
| 22 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
| 23 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
| 24 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 25 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
| 26 | I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity . |
| 27 | In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest . |
| 28 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 29 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 30 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |