Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors .
2 At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back .
3 I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago .
4 ‘ A French officer called to see me yesterday about the Hamnett affair . ’
5 Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him .
6 Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season .
7 ‘ Pray take my arm m'lady and I shall convey thee hence in the twinkling of an eye . ’
8 He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God .
9 Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university .
10 ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee .
11 ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather .
12 Nevertheless there is little doubt that in the cases of Frederick and Joseph at least a feeling that an enlightened ruler ought to be above merely personal and family considerations , that it was his duty to sacrifice them ruthlessly on the altar of the State , was a factor in their behaviour to their own blood relations .
13 Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited .
14 Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger .
15 Previously they had lacked an identity , but the training period had welded them together into a cohesive fighting force with an intense pride in themselves and their unit .
16 I bang on them , drag them all over the place , throw them around ! ’
17 Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack .
18 They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material .
19 Should n't be surprised if it drives me straight into the arms of the recruiting officer .
20 Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement .
21 The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night .
22 Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table .
23 Very slowly she took the headphones off and laid them carefully on the table , her eyes never leaving Luke 's for a moment .
24 He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’
25 To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible .
26 At the meeting , it was decided that County , the underwriters Dillon Read and Phillips & Drew would take some of the remaining shares and then sell them slowly over the next few weeks , a move which had been discussed with County 's lawyers beforehand .
27 Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities .
28 I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position .
29 She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site .
30 Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish .
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