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 What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time .
3 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 .
4 But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative .
5 I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned .
6 I flung it on the open ledger on the table .
7 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 .
8 The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log .
9 ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully .
10 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 .
11 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
12 ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’
13 I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 .
14 I met him at the Labour Club .
15 ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
16 One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent .
17 I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
18 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
19 That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago .
20 I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself .
21 If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road .
22 That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order .
23 Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
24 Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago
25 I got it with the fourth one
26 and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ?
27 I found it on the barbed wire .
28 So I moved it to the other side of the step .
29 Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice .
30 I caught it in the other hand .
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