Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just stand by me for a little bit longer . |
| 2 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 3 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 4 | ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo . |
| 5 | ‘ But Miss Everdene can do as she likes , and she 's chosen to manage her own farm — and keep me as an ordinary shepherd only . ’ |
| 6 | Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’ |
| 7 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 8 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 9 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |
| 10 | Am I on the right line there ? |
| 11 | Workers in nuclear and radiographic installations would then not need radiation badges , or monitoring instruments to warn them of the unseen danger all around . |
| 12 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 13 | ‘ You remind me of a wild animal sometimes , poised ready to flee at the first sight of a hunter 's gun . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Is n't that why you 've avoided me like the very plague ever since I 've been here ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Though we 'll need to keep an eye on you for a good while afterwards and replenish your fluids thoroughly . |
| 17 | You need a sound night 's sleep to prepare you for the taxing journey tomorrow . |
| 18 | Eight ‘ first ’ books for under one pound will strike you as a remarkable offer right now . |
| 19 | I never thought of you as a proper person before . |
| 20 | You think you 're going to convince me that selling the club would be in my father 's best interests , with you as the kindly soul just waiting to take the burden off his hands . |
| 21 | Pray every day that God will fill you with the Holy Spirit so that you have more courage to speak up for Jesus . |
| 22 | We 'll get you sorted out , turn you into a human being again . |
| 23 | It 's turned you into a human being yet ? |
| 24 | We 'll turn you into a human being yet . |
| 25 | Do be good , for goodness sake , and the last thing you 'll hear before the cosmic Hoover sucks you heavenward and then spews you into the fiery pit forever is Vae Solis — the terrible trumpet tootling of the Seventh Angel — and it 'll sound something like this … |
| 26 | ‘ We ca n't get you before a French court anyway , as long as you 're all awaiting court-martial . ’ |
| 27 | Taking a mineral-water lunch with your colleagues in a secluded senior executive dining room can divorce you from the real contributors as much as from the contribution you seek . |
| 28 | The tight one will I 've never seen you in a tight dress though , you do n't let me see so I |
| 29 | To up-to-date equipment and the particular blessing of knowing that the staff who have loved and cared for you here will be with you in the new hospital too . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |