Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
| 2 | I am sorry to inform you that hair that splits excessively probably wo n't grow much longer . |
| 3 | you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part . |
| 4 | It 's quite funny to see them all in this group worried about these dogs . |
| 5 | I can go home now and again to stay with my sister , and Newbury Council have said that when I come back into circulation they 'd be willing to find me another place , and hopefully I 'll find a little job . |
| 6 | I was careful to find them some distance from Upper Thames Street . |
| 7 | It 's really funny though this is all a new experience for me , I 've never really , you know it 's quite sort of funny analyzing it all do n't you think ? |
| 8 | Fit him in , will you , when I 'm free to give him some time . |
| 9 | Naff plebeian drugs , junk food , hoary sexism , a love of trash culture … hip hop and hardcore share all these , but where hip hop still has a guiding notion of cool ( both music and style are minimal ) neo-hardcore is prepared to LET IT ALL HANG OUT horribly ; the corset of cool has been ruptured and all manner of banished and forbidden rock memories have sprawled free … grotesquerie embraced as a defiant gesture against the sound track of yuppie culture — sleek , chic , designer pop-soul . |
| 10 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 11 | After exchanging pleasantries , Sally asked : ‘ Ed , would you be prepared to give me some information about the Harley/Supersight contract . |
| 12 | Since few actuaries will have had much practical experience of teaching before becoming tutors these notes have been prepared to give you some guidance towards helping students most effectively in the context of the tuition system . |
| 13 | So while I take your point that you are prepared to give us all the information we seek , may I reserve the right to interrupt when it is absolutely necessary to do so ? |
| 14 | Juliet wondered why he was willing to do it all again . |
| 15 | But just to have you near me I was willing to give it all to you . |
| 16 | Over the past year , I 've come across a dozen or more men of my age who are with women who simply are n't willing to give it all up for a baby . |
| 17 | There may be a circuit/county-court judge you know who would be willing to give you this experience . |
| 18 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 19 | It was as if , having seen the contents of Mr Broadhurst 's fitted cupboard , he were now prepared to allow me some knowledge of the rituals connected with this apparatus . |
| 20 | The RAC tends to have local firms dealing with their matters and can always be approached as stated above to see if they are prepared to allow you some introductions . |
| 21 | Is it acceptable to call you that ? |
| 22 | If they 're going to do it proper do it all . |
| 23 | More and more gliders were being produced all the time and it was quite impracticable to house them all in hangars , so they stood endlessly around the edges of airfields in the rain , waiting for an invasion which might come this year or might come next . |
| 24 | ‘ They will be very popular people — perhaps even more in demand than the producer — and should be able to sign short term contracts that allow them to continually search out the people willing to pay them most money . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm almost afraid to offer you another glass , ’ he said , ‘ in case you get the wrong idea . ’ |
| 26 | She was not unaware that Therese disapproved of the use of her mother 's Christian name — the French had it all straight , about the family , about death , and how to talk about it ; and they did talk : familiar with death . |
| 27 | I value my privacy and I am prepared to defend it all costs . |
| 28 | They were afraid to take me any more . |
| 29 | He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment . |
| 30 | Of course , being members of the Tech-Green élite and therefore indispensable , he and his family were already on file for a place on Sky City One should he be willing to move them all up there . |