Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 2 | Three tracks are from previous albums — Desperate Move ( driving , excellent and written by JMT stablemate Steve Coleman ) , Body & Soul ( as with Round Midnight below , a standard given a singular and distinctive modern treatment ) and Rock this Calling ( a modern jazz blues ? ) — while four are previously unrecorded by her : the melancholy-then-strident Do n't look Back ( highlight for me of this album ) , the quixotic Soul Melange , the Monk/Williams ‘ standard ’ Round Midnight ( a refreshingly individual rendition ) and My Corner of the Sky ( a modern son , which reminded me of an uptempo Ella Fitzgerald scat rendition … but with a rock group ) ; all bar Round Midnight are Wilson compositions . |
| 3 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 4 | I often fear for you in many ways , quite unreasonably it may be . |
| 5 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 6 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 7 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I know what passed between you over that cup of coffee . ’ |
| 9 | What passed between you on that occasion ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Goes for it in that sort of way . |
| 11 | Then when it " just happens " , spontaneously and romantically , they and their girlfriends hope they do n't get pregnant , or they do n't think about it at all . |
| 12 | Yeah , but I did n't really think about it like that . |
| 13 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 14 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 15 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 16 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 17 | He really lusted after me in those days … |
| 18 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 19 | Did the union act for you at this particular time then ? |
| 20 | It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’ |
| 21 | Listen to what people say about it in these magazines . ’ |
| 22 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 23 | How can you chat about it like this when I 'm holding you and when I want to kiss you and make love to you so badly I ca n't even think of anything else ! ’ |
| 24 | Acknowledgement of the fact of this fundamental need for a ‘ god ’ , and the need to provide for it in any social order , can be the vital factor in finding a way to ease the sufferings of the world . |
| 25 | I mean , er the thing is if you 've got a name and you want to that 's the time to work for it in that little |
| 26 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 27 | because you know the kind of material we 're recording bad language is n't gon na get an appropriate representation , and he 's not to worry about it on that |
| 28 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 29 | What did she know of him after all ? |
| 30 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |