Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’
2 Sanay just ask me to drive you into town , baby . ’
3 Deborah invited me to meet her at home in North London , and mentioned on the phone that her mum , Elaine , would like to meet me too .
4 He sent me a memorandum directing me to inform him in future before I write to any newspaper periodical on matters appertaining to the force .
5 ‘ Can I make it in time ? ’
6 But when I asked him for permission he just agreed .
7 Werewolf admired her motorbike , I asked her about weekend games at the farm .
8 I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland !
9 I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit
10 I asked her to supper on Friday .
11 ‘ Yesterday , when I asked you about animal rights , you said you were out of it and clammed up good and proper .
12 Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere .
13 But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview .
14 If someone asked you in French you might have to think about what tasse du thé means before you visualised a cup of tea and said ‘ Oui , s'il vous plait ’ .
15 I hugged her in front of the Matisses .
16 I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs .
17 Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day .
18 I made you from oak .
19 Luckily , I made it in time .
20 So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case .
21 and she 's doing other things through work that you know , I 'm I mean it in theory it 's sort of giving some support to .
22 Not that it came to me just thinking : I realized it at school .
23 I picked her up and she were wet through , had to put fire on and I laid her in front of fire
24 I laid it on soil ; the shoulders managed
25 It was a bit like having someone rub you with suntan cream , yet it was n't like that at all — how could it be in the dark ?
26 I met her in town one day last week .
27 I MET HIM ON HOLIDAY
28 I met him on holiday .
29 I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner .
30 One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’
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