Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 2 | She certainly would n't want to drive them to London . |
| 3 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've come to find out what you 've done with Kirsty — and when you intend returning her to Lomond View . ’ |
| 5 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 6 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 7 | ICI has developed it at Billingham , and it will eliminate the need to dump waste from the manufacture of perspex into the River Tees and the North sea — one year ahead of schedule , too . |
| 8 | Gough has been slow to respond to a groin injury which has plagued him since September and has been sidelined since the win over Celtic on November 7 . |
| 9 | The last time he had come to greet someone from Mars it had been DeVore . |
| 10 | ‘ And I want to thank you on Hilda 's behalf . |
| 11 | At Prague airport , Anderson is searched thoroughly for Hollar 's thesis but nothing is found ( scene fifteen ) , the explanation being , as Anderson reveals to an indignant McKendrick once they have boarded the plane ( scene sixteen ) , that he has hidden it in McKendrick 's briefcase . |
| 12 | ‘ I have come to see you about Mrs Wallis Simpson , ’ he began . |
| 13 | You need n't think I 'd have come to see you in Brixton . |
| 14 | Lancashire 's hope is that slow left-armer Alex Barnett , who has joined them from Middlesex , will develop over the next few seasons into the matchwinning spinner they have been seeking ever since Jack Simmons retired . |
| 15 | Twenty-one year old Derwyn Jones , at 6ft 10ins and 18½ stone the biggest forward in Wales , has joined them from Llanelli . |
| 16 | Saul Clifford has joined them from Stokesley . |
| 17 | Mozart then wrote asking if he could bring his cousin , Maria Thekla , with him ( she has joined him in Munich ) but realising that this would necessitate another delay whilst the ‘ Basle ’ waited for permission from her father in Augsburg , Leopold insisted that his son travel on ahead , and that his niece should follow . |
| 18 | Frances has joined me from Harrow . |
| 19 | He wants to see you at Kinsai . |
| 20 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 21 | A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that . |
| 22 | Gail Smith writes ‘ The burden God has given me for Albania took root in 1982 the first time I ever heard mention of the country and people . |
| 23 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 24 | I 've got this feeling that she has given it to Sophie |
| 25 | And and er say send something to William George , or something involving the magistrates cos he was chairman of the of the er of the er |
| 26 | Greenstein has reminded us of Marshall McLuhan 's distinction between " hot " and " cool " media , " hot " media presenting a complete pattern of stimuli , " cool " presenting an incomplete pattern and therefore requiring greater processing and hence a higher level of engagement on the reader 's part . |
| 27 | He depicted the life of enslaved mine workers in dark colours , and was altogether sensitive to the suffering of the humble ( as Professor Strasburger has reminded us in Journ . |
| 28 | And whatever it was , Slorne now tried to communicate it to Creggan . |
| 29 | DeFreitas played a daffy stroke : he tried to pull one from Cairns which was not short enough . |
| 30 | David has rung me from Pinner . |