Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not only do I have Penny 's word for it , but I happened to see Nicky on television last night , participating in a chat show that always goes out live from a studio just two blocks away from our own building here . ’ |
| 2 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 3 | I had watched Quintin under pressure during the Suez crisis where he had shown admirable calm at the Admiralty in testing circumstances ; and while I had some misgivings about his famous ‘ judgement ’ I felt that he could take on the leadership and the job of Prime Minister , and make a success of it . |
| 4 | I had known Willie since childhood days at Nairn , Geoffrey I had come to know later ; and while I greatly admired them both , and still do , I found this closing of establishment ranks deeply shocking . |
| 5 | I wanted to take Ladislav to lunch , and he suggested a restaurant near Wenceslas Square . |
| 6 | Example : If I wanted to copy Chris.Txt from Drive A : to a Directory called Darren on Drive B : I would type : COPY a:Chris.txt b : \Darren |
| 7 | She really was enchanting , very earnest as she tried to save Andrew from embarrassment . |
| 8 | Yes oh yes , she 'd got Lucy in bed , made love — had sex ? — fucked with ? — there was n't really a phrase to fit how utterly strange the whole thing had made her feel . |
| 9 | The next day she had the whole thing in perspective again , especially after she did find Louise at lunch and told her as much of the story as she could without mentioning Tom Russell . |
| 10 | On the other hand , she reflected , it would fit well with all that she knew of Miss Coldharbour 's habits if she had fed Wheeler with information about Gray which he 'd used to bully Gray with . |
| 11 | But her annoyance returned when Jenny came in a little while later and told her that she had asked Matthew to dinner . |
| 12 | She had represented Britain in horseriding competitions . |
| 13 | When she had telephoned Robert about breakfast-time , asking to see him about an important matter , he had seemed so astonished that the only place he had been able to suggest was here . |
| 14 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 15 | She continued to observe Helen with attention . |
| 16 | She wanted to beg Philippa for understanding , for belief . |
| 17 | The princess decided she wanted to see Paris by night … from the well-known spots where lovers sit for hours on end . |
| 18 | The road became narrower , the drops either side more precipitous — and we sought to engage Abu in conversation , more to dilute his fanatical sense of destination than to practise our halting Indonesian . |
| 19 | Together they went to see Baldwin after dinner and persuaded him , apparently without great difficulty , to go out , if he had to , with a bang and not a whimper . |
| 20 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |
| 21 | They had reached Agedabia without difficulty . |
| 22 | Within a few weeks they had put Pedro to flight and Henry was crowned king . |
| 23 | ‘ For 10 minutes they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation before explicitly asking him to work for and provide information to them . |
| 24 | When he dropped short outside off stump there would be mutterings that Wilfred was never cut in his entire career ; if he failed to bowl Yorkshire to victory on a wearing pitch , grumblings would be heard that Wardle would have had them out by tea . |
| 25 | Well aware of English fears , Napoleon III decided that a joint Anglo-French approach to the problems of the Near East would be popular in Britain and would provide him with the lever he sought to hoist France into place in the European system . |
| 26 | He 'd asked Amanda to lunch once , then again , and finally he had sounded her out , not minding the way she 'd sized him up , considering . |
| 27 | She did not like the way he 'd dismissed Nathan in order to talk to her . |
| 28 | During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament . |
| 29 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 30 | Having gained a substantial following in Judaea , he undertook to occupy Jerusalem by force of arms and drive the Romans from the Holy Land . |