Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them . |
| 2 | And he stopped me and said : ‘ Son , I saw ye practising , and I 've always found with a player of your capabilities it is best to tell them to hit it straight at the pin ! ’ |
| 3 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 4 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 5 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
| 6 | Damian considered her too inexperienced sexually to be able to fulfil that longing of his to express himself fully through the body . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you want me to pick you up from the airport ? ’ |
| 8 | Look , I 'm simply tellin' ya to drop it out of the presentation , that 's all . |
| 9 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 10 | A short zip is a compromise but most bags now come with a full length zip , generally with a double puller which enables you to open it up from the top or bottom to allow air to ventilate in warmer weather . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been taught that if things are n't going your way and they never do all the time when times are tough and you 're a bit low in confidence , it 's up to you to pick yourself up off the ground . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been taught that if things are n't going your way , and they never do all the time , when times are tough and you 're a bit low in confidence , it 's up to you to pick yourself up off the ground . |
| 13 | Secondly I need you to help me out with a bit of advice . |
| 14 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 17 | Do n't fly over it unless you have more than enough height to allow you to reposition yourself well to the side again . |
| 18 | How wrong of you to bring me away from the main road ! |
| 19 | We want them to put something back into the community that has helped them grow . ’ |
| 20 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 21 | I even hoped the Germans would overrun our positions and so allow me to give myself up as a prisoner . |
| 22 | Oh no , they want me to give it away to a Guitarist reader , and I suppose I ca n't argue with that . |
| 23 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
| 24 | Told me to keep him still for a couple of days . ’ |
| 25 | Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards . |
| 26 | ‘ I can get them to call it out over the loudspeaker . ’ |
| 27 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 28 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 29 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |
| 30 | Anyway , Mrs Aggie had been very sorry she had struck her and she had taken her into the town and bought her a real new bonnet , although she would allow her to wear it only on a Sunday . |