Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | You can show me or remind me of the difference between orange and pink , perhaps by showing me a colour chart . |
2 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
3 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
4 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
5 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
6 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
7 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
8 | To me that puts us in a difficult position when trying Germans , whose crime was obeying their superiors ’ orders , whatever our horror at what those orders led to . ’ |
9 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
10 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
11 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
12 | He took it from me and put it on the mantelpiece . |
13 | I 've brought a bottle with me and put it in the fridge . |
14 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
15 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
16 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
17 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
18 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
19 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
20 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
21 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
22 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
23 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
24 | Release me and restore me to the ground ; |
25 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
26 | And then , I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change ; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady — because there was a little something between us . |
27 | He smiled , thanked me and patted me on the head before knocking at our door . |
28 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
29 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
30 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |