Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the maternal recommendation was that Jane should see a psychiatrist or a priest , it transpired that Jane felt she had turned the corner simply by spilling out her innermost thoughts to her mother . |
| 2 | HOW Hearts must be praying that Airdrie do them a favour and finish in the bottom two of the Premier Division this season . |
| 3 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 4 | She said angrily , ‘ How do you know that Emma suspects me of being the root cause of her troubles ? |
| 5 | We have sonship , we have righteousness , forgiveness of sins , sanctification , cleansing , Christ indwelling , how do you know that Christ indwells you ? |
| 6 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 7 | Poor Annie was not to know that Hilary found it difficult to understand her broad moorland dialect . |
| 8 | You see , it was n't just a case of loving her and that was all there was to it , that might be very nice to know that God loves me , but I , there 's a sense in , I want to know what that love produces . |
| 9 | Mahmud Pasa confesses that such is the case , explaining that Abdulkerim saved him from an addiction to wine which , he implies , would have seriously impaired his chances not only for a successful career but for salvation as well . |
| 10 | Sources say that Intel reckons it wo n't be able to ship them more than 2,000 or 3,000 to each apiece before October , a third of what had been projected before . |
| 11 | ‘ Talking of addresses , you mentioned that Angy gave hers to Delia . ’ |
| 12 | It is reported that Edison set it recording and spoke ‘ Mary had a little lamb ’ into it . |
| 13 | People do n't mind being referred if it 's something that is genuinely but say they phone Leeds and Leeds do n't know and Leeds refer them to a number they think it is and then they refer to a third number then somebody gets . |
| 14 | Defoe and Richardson enjoyed it in the eighteenth century , Dickens in the next . |
| 15 | It entered and Thomas struck it . |
| 16 | Well I do n't ring up the client now , I make a note to ring them Monday night , because every approach session should always start off with warm calls , I do n't know if Alan told you that . |
| 17 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 18 | P On Sept 16 the Pounds crashed and Lamont pulled us out of the ERM . |
| 19 | He rose and Athelstan followed him out . |
| 20 | But a man must wait until Osiris calls him . ’ |
| 21 | This paper has outlined the ways of assessing efficiency , the ways in which the White Paper proposals present new opportunities and the monitoring arrangements to ensure that HAs and FPCs seize them . |
| 22 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 23 | Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role . |
| 24 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 25 | Waco : TEXAS cult leader David Koresh said last night he and his heavily-armed followers would not surrender because God told him to wait . |
| 26 | Do n't you know whether Amy phoned you or not ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know whether Newman told you — the victim was hung from a rope inside an old bell tower . |
| 28 | He did not yet know whether Edward wished him to bring to Wales any of his nobles of Champagne to serve there . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know whether Dersingham knew him prior to his appointing him . |
| 30 | A film which apparently did touch the spirit was King Kong , though we do not know whether Jack found it quite as exciting as Warnie did : ‘ There were astounding representations of the various prehistoric monsters , ’ Warnie confided breathlessly to his diary . |