Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and do we find that in fact on the other brochures , for instance at page fifty two , I do n't want to go through them all , I 'm only giving an example or two , page fifty two there you see , a sticker unfortunately er obscured in part , same words , bottom of fifty two , while these particulars are prepared with all due care for the convenience of the intend purchasers , the information contained therein is intended as a preliminary guide only |
| 2 | ‘ I intend to sit by you all night . |
| 3 | She was still looking admiringly around when , ‘ I 'm so happy that you agreed to dine with me this evening , ’ Lubor stated warmly . |
| 4 | Fighting , he says , is ‘ the real , highest , honestest business of every son of man ’ and he advises ‘ those young persons whose stomachs are not strong , or who think a good set-to with the weapons which God has given to us all , an uncivilized , unchristian , or ungentlemanly affair , just skip this chapter at once , for it wo n't be to their taste ’ . |
| 5 | Er I was at Portugal , we had fancied going to America but er my husband 's young brother and his wife want to come with us this year and they 've got two young kids so they felt it was far enough for them . |
| 6 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 7 | The third is a less tangible but no less striking phenomenon , the general feeling for freedom that has come over us all , an understanding heightened by the recent escape of millions of people by 1990 from the miseries of authoritarian rule and command economies . |
| 8 | The time has come for us all to speak out , to make it clear that we are behind her in feeling that we need someone new at the helm . ’ |
| 9 | But today he has looked at me two or three times in a certain way . " |
| 10 | Rosemary Hawthorne has looked into them all . |
| 11 | He had proved that he had not , after all , thrown away his how-to-train manual , despite the fact that only Rambo 's Hall has won for him this season . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 14 | This was partly because its proposals would have put an end to the prospect of the very benefits that securitisation should bring ( because the Bank of England would have had difficulty in applying its own regulations for securitisation ) , and partly because the accounting treatment proposed seemed to us inconsistent . |
| 15 | Now I think what erm and my feelings on this er are very much er similar to Mr Donson 's and I 'm grateful for the calculation he has done for us all . |
| 16 | when all it has done for us this last year |
| 17 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 18 | Their underlying feeling is that Frank Williams has blundered badly and they are saying : ‘ What a mess he has made of it all ! ’ |
| 19 | In relation to Jesus , popular tradition has imposed upon him one of the oldest and most archetypal of functions — that of the eternal adversary , the dark opposite , the embodiment of all the vices and iniquities that the hero is not . |
| 20 | However , there are more than 50 million people in this country , and HMG has to look after them all . |
| 21 | But I want to look at them both and I will go through them as well and mark them for spelling and for for your punctuation and everything else . |
| 22 | ‘ What on earth has got into you this morning ? ’ she said wonderingly . |
| 23 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 24 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 25 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 26 | ‘ We want to put behind us these tawdry , shabby years of the 1980s ’ materialism , the salmonella , listeria society of Thatcher . ’ |
| 27 | Communication is so complex an interaction of mind , language , and the physical world that it can be disconcerting to try to deal with it all at once . |
| 28 | The index at the back of Roget 's lists over 1000 words , each of which has indented underneath it another list of words . |
| 29 | Lone inventors are by no means all nutters , but we can sympathise with anyone who has to deal with them all the time . |
| 30 | I even tried to read to you that night at the end of last September . |