Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 .
2 The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen .
3 Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch .
4 Choir night , so I get myself an early supper .
5 There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with .
6 I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 .
7 I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money .
8 There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth .
9 After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel .
10 Once I know what the other operettas will be , I shall work with her every day .
11 Although she considers herself a practical , outgoing person more than an intellectual , she has always found literature a great mental enricher .
12 He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning .
13 It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards .
14 She wanted to wound him as he was wounding her so she gave him a charming smile and said , ‘ How did you feel , Fernando , when Maria Luisa slid into your bed at that hour ? ’
15 It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ?
16 Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed .
17 We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see .
18 Although they give me a good start for next issue .
19 Because we have to have another door so they giving me a third off .
20 he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound
21 When the rebels formed a provisional National Defence Junta a week after the start of the rising , Franco was not a member , although he became one a few weeks later .
22 So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel .
23 To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us .
24 He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’
25 well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that
26 If I show you the general norms it makes a lot more sense .
27 I noted , and we 've already had the flavour of it , in to some respect today , that initially you had almost unanimity of support from the District Councils er York City have changed their view erm and equally Hambledon are very luke warm , if I put it no more than that , er on the idea of a new settlement in the sense that they probably support the principle of the new settlement , but not in Hambledon .
28 " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures .
29 Well if I tell you a little secret about this .
30 ‘ What if I tell you the whole truth ?
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