Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And they are demanding massive insurance cover from Eastern Suburbs when Martin Offiah plays for them next summer . |
| 2 | ‘ And he has all the support I can give him to go for it next year . ’ |
| 3 | He was not sure which he wanted her to be and was still puzzling about it next day when she called to take him down . |
| 4 | ‘ I had to sell my share in Moffat Engineering , which lost me my chance to drive for them that year … ’ |
| 5 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 6 | ‘ Clyst St George did n't look very inviting , when we passed through it this afternoon . ’ |
| 7 | If … if , though , she does n't let you stay with them , then Mother will try to arrange for you some place else . |
| 8 | If the Sun Chariot emphasised the spreading cloak of Arab domination , then the Cambridgeshire proved there is still a place for the smaller owner when Jeremy Glover sent out Rambo 's Hall , the only horse to have won for him this season , to gain an equally facile success . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Many thanks to the Essex teachers for the fine tea they provided for us this meeting . |
| 11 | Funny , she had forgotten about it all afternoon , even to putting this dress on . |
| 12 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 13 | Here too is an attractive swimming pool , and as a bonus it is possible , on arrival , to make direct arrangements with the caretaker to have someone cook for you each day ( subject to availability ) . |
| 14 | I suppose the best thing for you to do is to book a plane ticket to London for around the beginning of April and forget about him that way . ’ |
| 15 | It must have been the word " social " that created for her this image , a word judiciously expunged from later versions of the verse . |
| 16 | I understand there 's a return flight booked for you this afternoon . ’ |
| 17 | It was perhaps one slight rejection of the conformity that was expected of him that night . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I wanted to come with you that night , ’ she said earnestly . |
| 20 | By s.25 : [ a ] person shall be guilty of an offence if , when not at his place of abode , he has with him any article for use in the course of or in connection with any burglary , theft or cheat . |
| 21 | A group of vengeful noblemen invited him to dine with them one evening , served him poisoned food and wine and then set about murdering him — a process that was anything but straightforward . |
| 22 | She was still looking admiringly around when , ‘ I 'm so happy that you agreed to dine with me this evening , ’ Lubor stated warmly . |
| 23 | ‘ He came over and trained with us last week and he was looking fit . |
| 24 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
| 25 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 26 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 27 | The first job of the officer is to ‘ determine whether he has before him sufficient evidence to charge that person with the offence for which he was arrested ’ . |
| 28 | It is an imaginative reaching out to grasp the reality of God , to encounter and respond to his will , and to find in him living truth . |
| 29 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 30 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |