Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 2 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 3 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
| 4 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 5 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 6 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 7 | I 'd I was I was glad when they said no more can move into Green , cos I was thinking , Well my sister 's getting a house soon and my other sister she 's getting a house and I do n't want them two living round here as well cos the me mam and dad wo n't be able to see them either , you know if they move into the flats so I was glad . |
| 8 | The Wolverines ' borrowed silks lent them invaluable seconds wherein to close with those guards and sever their throats before they could fire or even cry a warning . |
| 9 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 10 | Subtract them that way round . |
| 11 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 12 | He sent his parents a letter promising that ‘ if the good Lord God be merciful unto me and bring me safe home again , I will all the days of my life serve Him in praising His Holy name and exhorting others ’ . |
| 13 | Wattling , bring me those saucers there . ’ |
| 14 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 15 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 16 | ‘ But you still have n't given me any reason why I should marry you . ’ |
| 17 | You ai n't given me any tickets lately . |
| 18 | I mean Jim was saying that Winston has given them two weeks off so |
| 19 | Send me some money soon . |
| 20 | Open the door Want me bloody furniture back ! |
| 21 | They told him to meet them two nights later and threatened frightful consequences if he should fail to appear . |
| 22 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 23 | I seen them this morning so tell Mr |
| 24 | Their mighty spells and fiery blasts have won them many battles when sword and spear might not have prevailed . |
| 25 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ Mia found them several months ago . |
| 27 | My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration . |
| 28 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 29 | He caught me last time though . |
| 30 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |