Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep .
2 It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action .
3 ‘ We made a writing-table and two whatnots and a bedhead from it , and painted them all Adam green and white .
4 We need the publishing skills which really can penetrate through the powerful myths and barriers which surround the role of books in children 's minds , and give them real playground credibility .
5 So what I 'm saying is , is lead time in lots of business is highly valuable but if you can cut down the delivery time and give them more lead time you 're actually extending
6 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
7 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
8 Well might and wait till the second of July and get it all second hand .
9 The report urged industrialized countries to increase aid to LDCs , to ease their debt burden , and to give them preferential trade treatment .
10 Co-star Adam Faith — himself a big success as a pop star in the Sixties — knows all about making it and warned her that TV fame would have its price .
11 Meanwhile , Oracle has plucked top product designer Karl Hageman from ASK and named him chief design architect of Oracle Manufacturing .
12 I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen .
13 This region has just suffered a smallpox epidemic , and Serapia works to teach the women about the risks of disease , and to teach them basic health care .
14 But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it .
15 Perhaps the ghosts of great managers past could come and visit him one christmas eve : - ) ) )
16 A pound of tea , I said ; no , half a pound , thank you , and any bread that 's got a European type of crust , and have you some Dundee marmalade ?
17 I had nt seen him play much , but saw him last Monday playing for Man City .
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