Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 2 | Not that he plays them all that well , ’ he admitted , thoughtfully watching the harried youngster trying to be as tall as his tallest and most formidable charge . |
| 3 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 4 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 5 | But she smiled again and said , " I 'd understand if you did n't want to see me any more , " and looked down , away from him , at her feet . |
| 6 | McCann refused to be nominated ; he took the quite accurate view that the meeting had been called in order to incorporate the militants , attach the lustre of their achievements to a new , more moderate group of leaders and thus deny them any significant influence . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , could n't you just lend me some Thai money ? |
| 8 | You do n't want me any other time , do you ? |
| 9 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 10 | There was a certain constraint in his manner now which made them both ill-at-ease . |
| 11 | Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained . |
| 12 | In the course of approval , LIFESPAN will make them all selected versions . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd make them all interested in you . ’ |
| 14 | On the other hand , feeding deer can make them half tame and easy to see . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ Getting used to things does n't make them any better , does it ? |
| 16 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 17 | ‘ They do n't make them any more , but it 's a great thing . |
| 18 | Masculine like they do n't make them any more , do n't give a fuck about Dante , do n't touch alcohol , find it cold here after their own country and are more interested in praying and politics than getting laid . |
| 19 | They do n't make them any more do they ? |
| 20 | seeing him , of course , did n't make me any better . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you want them any more ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 22 | to do it and then they do n't really want them any more . |
| 23 | Praps they were just getting a little fed up of Wilko selling players for nothing when he decided he did nt want them any more ? |
| 24 | Then a British colleague at the Zoological station for this and next academic year lent me another four , and I found a couple on our shelves that I had not read before , so was well away . |
| 25 | But we 're not handling them any better . |
| 26 | After the initial , " God , you 've had a baby ! " , everything was normal , my friends did n't treat me any different really . |
| 27 | She was four years older than Jessie but he would treat them both alike . |
| 28 | Little did I know that my brief interlude in the north would stretch to eight years , bring me many more undreamed of adventures at sea in fantastic scenery and make me many very good lifelong friends in the islands of the West . |
| 29 | ‘ Please bring me some more tea . |
| 30 | ‘ You got me all wrong , Malamute , ’ SHe said , ‘ I do n't need that kind of support from you . |