Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 2 | ‘ My brother said nothing to me about acting as a romantic go-between . |
| 3 | Thank you for caring about a useless old man . ’ |
| 4 | and had you of gone to the wrong company , right |
| 5 | Properly installed — and full instructions accompany the Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm — a smoke detector will warn you of smouldering in the earliest stages of a fire and give you the vital few minutes that really could make the difference between death and survival . |
| 6 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 7 | MAS will , however , advise and assist you in preparing for the initial meeting . |
| 8 | ‘ He did n't try to talk me into acting as a romantic go-between . ’ |
| 9 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 10 | However , you will still need to get used to wearing them before embarking on a long trek . |
| 11 | As my wife , my family and I have had a taste of the suffering that Beck can impose on innocent people , will the Minister join me in sending to the real sufferers , the individuals who endured Beck 's homes and whose lives have been wrecked at his hands , the profound sympathy of us all ? |
| 12 | Castlereagh is not notorious , and most people in Northern Ireland will join me in objecting to the hon. Gentleman 's use of that word . |
| 13 | I won enough money in Sweden to at least get a category for the Challenge Tour next year and the experience will help me in qualifying for the European Tour . |
| 14 | ‘ All partners are technically self-employed but in order to prevent them from getting into a frightful mess we deduct a percentage from their drawings , so there is something put aside for tax . |
| 15 | Great Pulteney Street alone is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide , though the thin pilasters and applied pediments of Bathwick 's terraces prevent them from ranking alongside the Royal Crescent and the King 's Circus as works of European significance . |
| 16 | Those and many other pressures may distract them from remaining for a long period in the Territorial Army . |
| 17 | The first thing that struck me on listening to the new debut album by Sam Brown was her voice ; no syrupy coyness here , just a warm direct immediacy which is absolutely winning . |
| 18 | As a young Christian exclaimed to me on realizing for the first time the titanic implications of this claim , ‘ I always knew Christianity was true , but I never realized it was this true ! ’ |
| 19 | The 137 governments participating agreed a statement which committed them to working towards a legally-binding climate convention , which should be ready for signature at the Brazil conference on environment and development in 1992 . |
| 20 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 21 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 22 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 23 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 24 | You can forgive him for relaxing to a 69 . |
| 25 | A POLICEMAN dived into a canal to pull a driver from his crashed car — then booked him for going through a red light . |
| 26 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 27 | He had arranged to meet her after racing in the White Lion at Feltham . |
| 28 | A second charge accused him of having between the same dates — July 1 and August 20 , 1993 — attempted to force Mr McIvor to refrain from giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Wilson . |
| 29 | Agnes Jones 's intense religious fervour , which had led her into nursing in the first place , caused Florence Nightingale some anxiety . |
| 30 | Leon sucked his way carefully round his host 's person and joined him in gazing at the red plastic blob . |