Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard his harsh breathing , the rough exclamations of his own excitement as he kissed her deeper , his hands moving up her spine , thrusting into her thick black hair , blind passion exploding between them after so long . |
| 2 | Emmie had forgotten about it until now . |
| 3 | She had completely forgotten about it until now . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd forgotten about it till now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't fall for him at once , ’ says Hilary . |
| 6 | Had a slight operation and er I did n't know about it until today so erm er Paul 's going to offer him our good wishes and we 're going to be , I 'm told he 's home again and it 's , it 's only quite a minor operation and he 's quite well and that er hopefully will be back again next week . |
| 7 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 8 | You go to your party , Mum , just forget about me for once ! |
| 9 | " Then I shall wait for you over there . |
| 10 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 11 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 12 | Oh yes , he ditched Graham who 's looked after him for over ten years through thick and thin , and mainly thin , in favour of Mike Martinez . ’ |
| 13 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
| 14 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 15 | And but that he had many things to occupy his mind , and she no less , I think something would have come of it before now . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll say this for old Wix , ’ he went on when the spasm had passed , ‘ though he does n't approve of me for not toting a gun , he 's bloody good to the old man . ’ |
| 17 | Sylvie moved towards them at once . |
| 18 | Looks like it from here , looks like |
| 19 | It lives with you for ever and a day . |
| 20 | Even then , habit and a stubborn trust that our audience spied upon us from behind then nearest bush , forced our bodies to blunder on long after they had emptied of meaning , until like runaway carts they dragged to a halt . |
| 21 | In practice variations so caused are few : in every land the total number of list seats nearly always turns out to be either the same as the total number of constituency seats or to differ from it by only one or two . |
| 22 | I used to write to him till then . |
| 23 | He used to write to me about how it was best for Stephen if he got adopted , 'cause I did n't know what I was going to do with me life , I was n't settled and I 'd probably end up back in prison . |
| 24 | I feel I would like to write to you on how they are operating the Railway today . |
| 25 | Er all I can say chairman is that the County Council is is working within the approved structure plan strategy which is based on restraint , based primarily on housing restraint but I think that 's what the County Council has done in its er employment land proposals is to set certain parameters which appear to us to really reasonably meet requirements of this authority 's resident population . |
| 26 | Her mother had died and her father summoned her to come to him at once . |
| 27 | To make sure that these components met the quality standards needed by the main plant , the company despatched , at its own expense , what they described to us with only mild exaggeration as ‘ a regiment of engineers ’ from Detroit , some of whom stayed down in Brazil for months advising the subcontractors on how to meet the company 's standards . |
| 28 | There were very strong objections from one landowner and frontager and much pressure was brought to bear on him by both the company and the Rural District Council , who announced on 9 September that he had accepted their conditions . |
| 29 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 30 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |