Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What you 've done for me I 'll never forget . |
| 2 | Why he imagined Walter would have written to me I ca n't think . |
| 3 | If their treasurers have n't yet written to you it may well be because they are busy shopping around for alternative banking services — as indeed I am . |
| 4 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 5 | I also hoped she had n't told him about Frankie 's and my rudeness although why I should have been bothered about him I ca n't think . |
| 6 | Once the heavy doors closed behind him he would never have to see her again . |
| 7 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 8 | This is identical with the reaction of primitives to a fetich : it is animated by something they can not understand . |
| 9 | Although he said a resigned ‘ Yes ’ to them , I was told by him I would never reach college . |
| 10 | And if Mrs Simmons was registered with him she could well be seen much sooner . |
| 11 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 12 | if I 've trampled on them I would n't like them anyway I can be nice |
| 13 | How many such stories lie hidden from us we can not tell ; but we can be sure that he reflects many of the aspirations of his day : as a merchant on land and sea , in the Baltic , the North Sea and the Mediterranean ; as a pilgrim to the shrines of England and Scotland , to Saint-Gilles , to St Peter and to Jerusalem , he accomplished what many others were doing , and far more aspired to . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in my view , Mrs. X has been shabbily treated in what I can only call a squalid affair . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel sure that if the Corporation of Exeter had had the facts of the present case brought before them they would never have insisted upon the payment of a toll which they clearly would have had no right to insist on if the plaintiff had but claimed exemption upon landing the limestone . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I 'd still like to get married , but if someone actually proposed to me I 'd probably run a mile from that as well . ’ |
| 17 | You know , she 's sworn to me she would n't have a Russian if he offered her a thousand quid . |
| 18 | Mr Asquith maintained that the Prime Minister and nobody else could preside over the War Committee , otherwise decisions might be arrived at which he could not agree to , which would result in friction and delay … |
| 19 | A long conversation followed with someone I could not see . |
| 20 | Prehistoric man chose to live here because he knew it was unique , endowed with everything he could ever need to survive and thrive . ’ |
| 21 | He had a parcel under his arm , and much as Mum pleaded with him he would n't stay . |
| 22 | Well November , I meant the fourth of November it seems to be for ever anyway I spoke to the Head of the Department when they came back and he said I must admit we 've done nothing from the point of view of putting things on paper but a lot of thinking has gone into it I must really sit down now and commit things to paper . |
| 23 | The second murder , too , will have to occur because your murderer , rightly ( or even better , wrongly ) suspects the detective is getting too close for comfort or that one of the other characters has hit on something they ought not , from his point of view , to have done . |
| 24 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 25 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 26 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 27 | There was nothing for her here ; and if this was admitted between them it must swiftly prove an admission with only one exit . |
| 28 | If half the funds and the intellectual effort which has gone towards developing strategies for finding alternative families had been put into what we can only lamely call preventative work there would be unquestionable advantage to all concerned . |
| 29 | And erm when I 'd finished with him I 'd perhaps get a two or three specked apples or a banana or something like you see . |
| 30 | Ruth felt her throat go dry and for a moment her body yielded to something she would rather not have recognised — a need for another sort of passion in her life . |