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

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1 Thanks for lending me this , Christina .
2 But thanks for telling me all this . ’
3 Thanks for telling me all this ; it 's what I wanted to know . ’
4 Thanks for seeing me this evening er
5 Thanks for giving me this stuff .
6 ‘ Well , thanks for explaining it all to me , but I 'll have to be going too , I 'm afraid . ’
7 He felt a certain gratitude to Eleanor for giving him this idea .
8 The usual way of coping with their father had been to make no reference to anything untoward that might have happened , for fear of bringing it all upon them again .
9 Tim had no intention of telling her that .
10 I had every intention of doing it this morning .
11 Within the past hour has announced that a review is being launched into the future of three pits in Yorkshire with the intention of closing them all down .
12 I had taken Miss Senga into Hyde Park with the intention of showing her some of the winter birds , and the park is so beautiful at this time of the year , what with the snow piled up . "
13 It appeared that Josh Cohen had no intention of giving them any trouble — just as Hardy had predicted .
14 She tried to calculate the effect of telling them all .
15 We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind .
16 ‘ Dear sweet Lord above , I do thank Thee for Thy kindness in showing me this lovely woman before I died . ’
17 When the time came to close the office , he took great pleasure in posting us all as far away from our homes as he possibly could .
18 They asked if he was cheating and decided that if he was able to do his work so well , there was no harm in giving him some more .
19 It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork .
20 ‘ Sounds fine , but , well , even if Montgomery manages to raise this bomber , if he manages to cut a hole in the fuselage without blowing us all to kingdom come , if he manages to extract the atom bomb and if he manages to secure it to the Angelina 's cradle , what happens if the thing detonates before he reaches the Kásos Strait ? ’
21 The American has become the Carlsberg League club 's leading scorer since joining them this season .
22 the key to learning it all key .
23 Common threads in the commentaries were the losses at Do It All , which threaten to cost WHS £14m for the full year ; doubt over whether the group could fulfil its promise not to inject more cash into Do It All ; the downturn in the recorded music market ; the group 's comment that trading in June and November had been poor ; and chairman Sir Simon Hornby 's sombre prognostications over the end of the recession , not yet in sight .
24 Also , while he is paying and after he has paid , do n't add to your worries by giving him more credit .
25 Before he departed , he did his best to curb Prince John 's ambition by giving him several huge tracts of English land in Derbyshire , Somerset , Dorset , Devon and Cornwall .
26 Whoa , old girl , ’ soothed Ted , when he saw that even with all his weight pulling on the halter , there was no hope of saving her that way .
27 They will take you half a mile for a packet of Marlboros — for a carton , they 'll fight each other for the privilege of taking you all the way ( eighteen miles ) out to Sheremtyevo airport .
28 It 's only the beginning for me but I thank God for the privilege of serving him this way .
29 Do you think she went up with her arms raised ; I kind of see her that way .
30 That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play .
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