Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jaggers told me Miss Havisham wished to see me on business , so I said I would go the next day . |
| 2 | After reading of Helen Wright 's good fortune in September Amicus Ivan McNeill wrote to tell me of his luck in winning a three day family trip to Euro Disney in a free draw organised at his local Esso petrol station in Ballymena , County Antrim . |
| 3 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 4 | I 'm a second-year witch at the school , and this beastly girl called Ethel Hallow has changed me into a frog and I was — ’ |
| 5 | When Dr Reid arrived to fetch me at Green 's he announced that he had left his car by the pier . |
| 6 | Some like the Sandvik Sandplate have introduced me to products that I might not have otherwise tried . |
| 7 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 8 | Mr Lawler has sent me from The Haven to collect the thirty brace of grouse he ordered , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 9 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 10 | Firstly , Martin Coleman from High Wycombe has taken me to task for not including a power on/off switch in the circuit of Fig. 4 ( April ‘ 92 ) . |
| 11 | Unfortunately Mr Miller wants to show me round his shop , and that will take some time . |
| 12 | Mr. Docherty came to see me in April , desperately concerned because he was homeless and had insufficient money with which to feed himself . |
| 13 | The twenty-first century 4-D representations had prepared me for something horrific ; yet my impression was of features more frightening than strictly horrifying . |
| 14 | Gen Morillon , after talks in Belgrade , said : ‘ President Milosevic promised to help me in the implementation of every request I have made , that is the immediate ceasefire . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Wyatt has mistaken me for Dana , ’ she said simply . |
| 16 | Summoning up all my courage , I entered San Esteban and its overpowering gilded Churriguera altar seemed to welcome me like a long-lost friend as I dipped my hand in the holy-water stoup at the door and knelt to pray in front of Claudio Coello 's heavenly blue painting . |
| 17 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 18 | Once again , Patrick Eggle has provided me with an excuse to get a paper round , take in laundry and even think about selling my body . |
| 19 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 20 | Mrs Browning likes to have me with her now , no other person will do , and we talk of the old days and Miss Henrietta slipping off to Regent 's Park to walk with Mr Surtees Cook and the squeezes she loved to hold in Wimpole Street when her father was away . |
| 21 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 22 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 23 | one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest . |
| 24 | Wirral LEA decided to recommend me to ICI with the request that I look at management information systems within the site . |
| 25 | I wish to God Nelson had put me in charge of the manor 's affairs , and not a spendthrift like you . |
| 26 | One week later Captain Taylor came to fetch me in a jeep . |
| 27 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 28 | There 's been a cock-up in the first-year timetable , and Prof. Day 's summoned me to a meeting to sort it out . |
| 29 | Bill Francis had rung me from Marcus half an hour before I got back . |
| 30 | Well I , I took the liberty of the Lord Lieutenant 's appointed me to something called the Sussex Rural Options Land Bank and I brought you a copy of the leaflet , having notice of your question and I did ask the officer who deals with this in the Sussex Rural Community Council if he could give me the latest score on housing I thought that the news was bad from what he had said , but having said that , I mean every effort is being made to deal with the issues you raise in this council which is now chaired by Peter . |