Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took the pins from my hair to dry it a bit and it sprang free . |
| 2 | I hope it will be my privilege to buy you a drink as well . |
| 3 | ‘ Mrs. Porter , any attempt on my part to give you an adequate answer to that question would probably destroy the delicate professional nature of our relationship . |
| 4 | We had had our school trial in the concrete playground and I had made the team ; so here I was , complete with black Curtis plimsolls ( I had had to ask my Mum to buy me a pair ) and white ‘ Alf Ramsey ’ shorts . |
| 5 | So I forced my Mum to buy me a guitar — it was just a crappy acoustic , with the strings about an inch away from the frets . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 7 | ‘ Otherwise , I will use my influence to find you an apprenticeship at one of the better fashion establishments . ’ |
| 8 | It was part of my job to give them a crash course . |
| 9 | I want six pairs of feet and then I 'd have to stand on my head to give them a rest ’ . |
| 10 | If I do n't persuade my father to sell you the club , you 'll manufacture enough fake information to make the police suspicious enough to close me down ? ’ |
| 11 | These days this happens when you check in and of course I was asked to open my suitcase to show them the contents . |
| 12 | I almost feel it 's my duty to show you the error of your ways . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish it were in my power to give you a faithful picture of this famed city of two years standing . |
| 14 | On the last day of that term , my final-year class all came up to my office to give me a ‘ thank-you ’ present . |
| 15 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 16 | The printer had become sufficiently reconciled to their presence to give him a friendly wave . |
| 17 | Her attempts to teach them a step was hysterical . |
| 18 | He too had been strictly brought up but seems to have shrugged off his mother 's influence in that as easily as he resisted her attempts to make him a practising Jew . |
| 19 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 20 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 21 | Alyssia opened her mouth to give him a piece of her mind at this further show of arrogance — in fact , to give him the sack , because his mere presence here implied that he was working for her father , and so , in an indirect manner , for herself — but he did n't allow her the chance . |
| 22 | I will give you a quick tour from the air , ’ he added just as she opened her mouth to give him a caustic reply . |
| 23 | She opened her mouth to give him a blistering answer , then closed it abruptly . |
| 24 | Riled by the peremptory note of command in his voice , Rory opened her mouth to give him a scathing reply , but just in time caught the sideways glance slid her way by Candy and bit her tongue . |
| 25 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 26 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 27 | Upset and infuriated by such cavalier treatment , made miserable and guilty by her failure to tell him the truth , she gritted her teeth and stayed still and mute , trying not to blink as the angry tears welled up . |
| 28 | ‘ Her business to find me a pretty and agreeable companion , that 's what she said . ’ |
| 29 | Prosecutors did not go ahead with charges that she plotted to handle part of the proceeds of the robbery by allowing her husband to buy her a Tudor mansion . |
| 30 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |