Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put them first in one pocket , then moved them to all my other pockets , except two which I kept secret . |
| 2 | I wo n't bore you with all my personal and professional distractions . |
| 3 | I ca n't think of anything else so I 'll finish by thanking you for all your hard work . |
| 4 | She was as fearless as the Wooldridge boys who involved her in all their mischief , but sometimes Anna would stand and stare , as if she was seeing things that others could n't see . |
| 5 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 6 | In Shylock 's trial against Antonio , having preached towards Shylock for mercy in line 180 ‘ The quality of mercy is not strained ’ , she promptly forgets to show any mercy towards Shylock , stripping him of all his wealth , possessions and even religion . |
| 7 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 8 | Wexford grasped it in both his hands , raised it high and brought it down hard to meet the empty air . |
| 9 | You can build a wardrobe around it , blending it with all your usual clothes . |
| 10 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 11 | Jeremiah , the Old Testament prophet , assures us of God 's promise : ‘ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart . ’ |
| 12 | It it 's a part of the county council I 've always taken a considerable interest in , and I support them in all their efforts . |
| 13 | I absolve you from all your sins . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've seen him without all his hangers-on , ’ Cy commented . |
| 15 | I have n't seen her with all her clothes off you know . |
| 16 | He reached out to take one of her hands and hold it between both his own . |
| 17 | And if you can afford it , you need to sell it to all your clients , because it is absolutely brilliant . |
| 18 | But later in the day , after the Christmas meal , alone in her room for an hour 's rest , she unpacked it with all its effects . |
| 19 | I toyed with the idea of reminding you of all my triumphs , of my prediction of the ‘ 87 stock market crash , of my warnings about the ERM and the dangers of Europe , about … |
| 20 | Intimacy means allowing one person to see you with all your defences down , stripped of any masks . |
| 21 | Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites . |
| 22 | The representation of personages on monuments before the second quarter of the fifteenth century showed them in all their might , majesty and power , attired in their finery and dressed to illustrate their status . |
| 23 | Conradin hated her with all his heart , but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing . |
| 24 | You have n't yet agreed to endow him with all your worldly goods so that money is yours and yours alone . |
| 25 | Here , if you are lucky enough to own an oven , you lend it to all your neighbours who do n't have one . |
| 26 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 27 | I 've never seen anything like it in all my life . |
| 28 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 29 | You can then use it in all your favourite Windows applications . |
| 30 | ‘ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort , who comforts us in all our troubles , so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we have received from God ’ ( 2 Cor. |