Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 11 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 12 | Because we have to have another door so they giving me a third off . |
| 13 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
| 18 | If I show you the general norms it makes a lot more sense . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 21 | Well if I tell you a little secret about this . |
| 22 | ‘ What if I tell you the whole truth ? |
| 23 | You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it . |
| 24 | It would n't look very good if I gave you a great big rambling piece of paper now to tell you about communications |
| 25 | You see , if I do you a wrong and you forgive me , it 's not because I 've exercised grace , it 's because you 've exercised the grace . |
| 26 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 27 | Do you think you can manage the walk back to Three Colt Street , if I give you a helping hand ? ’ |
| 28 | It would n't come across as very credible if I trusted you a third time . |
| 29 | ‘ My mother can come with us until I find her a suitable companion . ’ |
| 30 | Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know . |