Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a dilettante artist , a protégé of John Jarndyce 's who affects a childlike gaiety and simplicity but is really a shameless sponger ; his apparent innocence of worldly concerns is sedulously fostered to relieve him of any common responsibilities . |
| 2 | However , having been off last week , I have n't been able to do that , but I have made all the amendments and I was only going to talk us through those that needed everybody to know about them . |
| 3 | No one tells us how we are supposed to deal with death — our own or that of other people — and yet we are all going to face it at some time . |
| 4 | He swung the gun upwards on his mount and was obviously set to cut me in half with his next pass when the knifehilt appeared in his chest , lodged deep between two bandoliers . |
| 5 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 6 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 7 | One of the features of that day will be a series of mini- lecturers on just about every conceivable subject , and during the next few Ideas In Action programmes I shall be talking to some of the lecturers about their topics , hopefully whetting your appetites sufficiently to want to join us on that day to hear more . |
| 8 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 9 | I know we 've had that debate at length in connection with the housing issue but I would just like to leave you with that point again . |
| 10 | We were just going to ask him about this proposed pay rise that 's all . |
| 11 | I was just going to tell them about all the things that were on my mind , about my dad and about Jesus and about aliens taking over the … |
| 12 | No not , not till the Manageress , I was just going to tell you about that . |
| 13 | You 'll just have to trust me on this one , baby . ’ |
| 14 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 15 | I think we just learn to carry it with more discretion . |
| 16 | Now you just have to tell me about that that peedie er shop again Vera . |
| 17 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 18 | I had always intended to do it at some stage . ’ |
| 19 | And no one 's ever going to ask him to another . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll hardly have to see her at all , ’ said my mother , voicing her worry tangentially , ‘ in a house that size . ’ |
| 21 | On Saturday afternoon , our faithful guide and interpreter Comrade Wong , together with another comrade who mysteriously seems to accompany us on such occasions ( Comrade Sun ) took us by car to the Friendship Store which is an emporium for the exclusive use of ‘ foreign friends ’ . |
| 22 | It means , it 's the new system where as you 're driving along , whatever you 're listening to it automatically interrupts to tell you of any urgent road delays . |
| 23 | And almost before he had finished speaking , his mouth forced itself over hers in a kiss that was clearly designed to punish her for that last remark . |
| 24 | " You 're probably going to hate me for this . " |
| 25 | We would also like to thank him for all the hard work he put into Lee Green . |
| 26 | Luckily the girls also managed to provide me with some nephews to balance it up a bit . ’ |
| 27 | then you probably have to take it from that and I think you 'll find there 's a weeks work on there . |
| 28 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 29 | In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense . |
| 30 | And she really began to hate him with such little strength as she had left . |