Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 2 | ‘ You shall paint me like this if it would please you , Barney dear , ’ she whispered aloud . |
| 3 | Yes and er I er they got me on that and I 'd er seen a bit on it before hand one way or another , but I went to a place and , and asked them if I could er see and er they showed me and explained it , the er the way to er . |
| 4 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 5 | If going to bed , eating and hairwashing always happen in the same way , she accepts them with little or no fuss . |
| 6 | Worse still , he/she perhaps never articulates them at all unless he/she expects to have to spell them out . |
| 7 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 8 | I do n't know why I should burden you with this and make an exhibition of myself in front of eveN– one . ’ |
| 9 | His single , minded pursuit of operational perfection had to be witnessed to be appreciated , He was the only Commander in the field that was able to change the entire concept of strategic bombing ; moreover he was the only Group commander with any worthwhile operational background , my personal researches accredit him with more than a full bomber tour of operations , and that includes his escape from Sweden . |
| 10 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 11 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 12 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 13 | We we just have this weird notation that we write it like this and we say it like that cos squared Z what we mean |
| 14 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 15 | You should only consider it at all if you believe your marriage can continue . |
| 16 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |
| 17 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 18 | People must believe that you 're such a tough shit you would snap them in half if they sneezed . |
| 19 | Cut them in half if large . |
| 20 | Yeah , well you got to have a , you 've got to have some flowers and you just put them between that and leave them . |
| 21 | Fitting these chokes with , or replacing them with those that have earths and metal jackets will reduce the voltage reading and any possible ill effects on the fish . |
| 22 | I 'm warning you of this cos you know it 's disappointing if you do n't do well . |
| 23 | I think you should , allowances should be at at least support you in that and also from those allowances other resources that provide for research etcetera for the members . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not going to shoot you with this or anything else . |
| 25 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 26 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 27 | We ca n't hurt her — humiliate her like this when she 's expecting to marry him in just a few weeks , even if it has been arranged for family reasons , and not for love . |
| 28 | Sometimes the author 's identity is given away by some small detail reflecting a habit of expression or thought , and this seems to confirm that each writer has a linguistic " thumbprint " an individual combination of linguistic habits which somehow betrays him in all that he writes . |
| 29 | He is , after all , the Chairman of that committee but certainly I advised him against that and I thought it was totally wrong er to do it in the way he did and I , I think it was a shame for this Council that he , that he did go ahead , but there you are . |
| 30 | It does n't show it on this but you see there 's two zeros , there 's your freezing mark there right ? |