Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’ |
| 2 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 3 | Would you like Bigwig and me to go over there first , by ourselves , and report back ? " |
| 4 | Mike organized it , for me to go over there and then I did n't need to be there at all , cos noth nobody turned up . |
| 5 | As the hon. Gentleman has said , Mrs. X has indicated that she may be taking proceedings further , so it would be most improper for me to go into too much detail on this case . |
| 6 | It 's alright to park erm a non police car but there was a policeman actually sitting in the car while two of them loitered in there . |
| 7 | These early pension schemes were all rewards for loyalty to a narrow group of white collar staff , whose salaries were insufficient to allow them to retire like more prosperous middle-class professionals . |
| 8 | This line of thinking , however , seems to me to miss at least one major point . |
| 9 | They did n't seem to mind me hanging in there , but it was getting a bit like the ocean liner scene in the Marx brothers ' Night at the Opera . |
| 10 | For example , a survey of 1,800 working women in France might show that 38% read at least one magazine weekly , and a similar survey in West Germany of 940 working women showed that 47% of them read at least one magazine weekly . |
| 11 | Let them wait for once . |
| 12 | If you 've got them scattered about all over the place , it makes it much more difficult to try and save them , and , later on , get the data back in . |
| 13 | The courier had orders for them to repair at once to Edinburgh , where the Regent was to summon an urgent Council . |
| 14 | A lot of them want to just talk , to feel secure that they 've seen a policeman . |
| 15 | I have preferred Irish humour ever since I heard of the Dublin man visiting London who wrote to his wife … ‘ and if you do not receive this letter you are to let me know at once ! ’ |
| 16 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 17 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 18 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
| 19 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 20 | The instructors were all trained in the UK and could not have been more helpful when I asked at very short notice whether I could fly their Archer for £34 . |
| 21 | Cos I asked in here a few weeks ago and they said . |
| 22 | Now what I want you to do I want to just have a look at it now and I want you to play with it over the holiday on your own . |
| 23 | Cast your mind back to my description of the girl in the coffee bar , the one I gazed at earlier on in this long night , the coldest night of the year . |
| 24 | But like I fits in quite well . |
| 25 | I 'm supposed to be resting , but after I 'd had forty winks , I felt a lot better , so I toddled over here . |
| 26 | And I read for about an hour . |
| 27 | I read from there , fifty six , to there , that much . |
| 28 | During the warmer months I averaged at least 15 common carp in a five hour session but this winter two sessions were biteless . |
| 29 | but I mean to even think of it , you know , is not very nice ! |
| 30 | By subvert from within , I mean to actually be on Top Of The Pops and compromising in little bits so that they have big hit records . |