Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them . |
| 3 | It is then up to me to implement it successfully by controlling my behaviour whilst keeping an eye on progress towards the indicators of success . |
| 4 | And he stopped me and said : ‘ Son , I saw ye practising , and I 've always found with a player of your capabilities it is best to tell them to hit it straight at the pin ! ’ |
| 5 | David advised me to sound you out on it . |
| 6 | Then , with distant civility , ‘ Perhaps you 'll allow me to see you safely to your hotel ? ’ |
| 7 | I fully accept that , but let me throw it back at you and say you , through your brother , are arguing about the small print on an extended warranty . |
| 8 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 9 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 10 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 11 | Years later my mother could hardly wait for me to pass it on to her . |
| 12 | He meant me to pass it on to my son . ’ |
| 13 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 14 | In case there are any reading this who have still not seen the vision , allow me to spell it out in moral advice : If you attend zoos and circuses — find other entertainment ; if you are engaged in intensive ‘ livestock ’ farming — throw away the systems of close confinement ; if you are engaged in animal experimentation — find alternatives ; and if you still eat meat — give it up . |
| 15 | Ormanroyd towers above everyone knocks it down to Thomson Pearce whips it away . |
| 16 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 17 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
| 18 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
| 19 | No one to stop them keeping her here for as long as they wanted . |
| 20 | we 'll have to let them catch you right at the right , where the music tells you too , dum , oh |
| 21 | Sister not only gave smiling permission , she allowed me to escort him back to his car . |
| 22 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 23 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 24 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 25 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I asked him not to . ’ |
| 27 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 28 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 29 | I asked her once about the packet . |
| 30 | ‘ I asked you not to . ’ |