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Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make .
2	I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week .
3	I shall throw my bouquet to one of you at the wedding and who knows , there might be another wedding in the not too distant future for somebody .
4	I have flown my plane with cadged army fuel six hundred miles .
5	‘ Here , ’ he said ( or some such generous word ) : I grabbed the bag from him and got my fingers round some dried fruit and stuffed into my mouth .
6	And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that .
7	‘ I am not going to lose my credibility on this train by being caught coming out of the help 's bedroom . ’
8	These phrases denied me my right to participate in the very same way that the socialist movement refused to recognize my rights to have access to information that would dispel my ignorance on such subjects .
9	Grey is the colour of the mist that shrouded my thoughts during this period .
10	Seeing my daughter like this .
11	Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything .
12	But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ?
13	I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them .
14	I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them .
15	I was bought a large trunk and Uncle Charlie came round one Saturday morning and sign-wrote my name on both ends , with my house number .
16	Indeed without any wish to evade my responsibility for subsequent events , I think I may fairly claim that in everything I did in re Karen and her husband I was market-led .
17	Doubled up with pain , I found support between two Lada cars ( what else ? ) and emptied my insides with great gasping spouts .
18	When we reached Dieppe I emptied my kit into another bad and popped Emily into my rucksack .
19	I 've had to carry my shopping up 48 concrete steps for years , ’ she said .
20	At various times I have altered my charges on particular areas .
21	Tom caught my eye behind her back and winked to acknowledge my presence on alien territory .
22	I sell my goods in many western countries , but these Russians … ’
23	‘ Or sell my story to some Hong Kong newspaper ? ’
24	erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go .
25	We visit the charming sheep and I get a chance to wear my wellingtons after all .
26	He says ; It wo n't affect my job at all .
27	I bathe and dress , and paste my face in gauzy liquid , whiting out the spots and the sweat .
28	I would be grateful if you could convey my apologies to those who are present .
29	There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form .
30	‘ Ian 's going to London , ’ announced my mother to one and all .