Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 2 | I 've heard them before like that , distanced but there , singing beyond the night in a daytime of their own . |
| 3 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 4 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 5 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And when you were doing these with lots of you 've got now got W X Y and Z in , when you 're adding up if you lay them out like that |
| 7 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 8 | They wo n't want me here with all this happening . |
| 9 | This woman who , who keeps phoning me up about all this oil pollution on her land . |
| 10 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
| 11 | ‘ Paste me again with that stick of yours and you 're a dead Scotsman , Patel . ’ |
| 12 | And they did n't really want them back at that time . |
| 13 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 14 | The specific function of the agents of transnational political practices is to create and sustain the organizational forms within which this penetration takes place and to connect them organically with those domestic practices that can be incorporated and mobilized in the interests of the global capitalist system . |
| 15 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 16 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 17 | In 1974 , visiting the northern region of the Maramureş , one of the districts richest in the everyday survival of peasant customs and dress , Ceauşescu told a group of folk-artists that adhering to traditions was one way of developing a communist country : ‘ I appreciate … these true works of popular art as an expression of your commitment to maintain the dress and customs of [ your ] ancestors , as well as to weave them tightly with that which is new , … because only in this way will we build a strong socialist society . ’ |
| 18 | Pick me up at half past four . |
| 19 | They did n't move either until they got one of the old horsemen : he got them away without any trouble . ’ |
| 20 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 21 | You want to psycho-analyse me and send me home with all my little idiosyncrasies ironed out ! ’ |
| 22 | Although all my aids had to work in unison , I had to really concentrate on being able to work them independently of each other . |
| 23 | You just want me here for this . ’ |
| 24 | Well I says to Lindsey , said if you ever want me out of that hospital Lindsey you 'd better start and be good . |
| 25 | What they believe in is that everybody out there is out to grab as much as they can for their own private interest and they 're prepared to meet them halfway on that . |
| 26 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 27 | Ryle 's point is that , since the terms ‘ mind ’ and ‘ body ’ are not of the same category , it is illegitimate to relate them logically in this way . |
| 28 | Lil should know me better after all these years . |
| 29 | and caught them out with some incisive breaks . |
| 30 | You are doing yourself a lot of harm by keeping me here like this interrogating me about matters which are protected by the official secrets legislation . ’ |