Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them regarded Baldwin as an acceptable and agreeable assistant , but not as a great deal more . |
| 2 | The following Saturday morning I asked Granpa for a couple of hours off . |
| 3 | I asked McIllvanney in a tone of genuine enquiry . |
| 4 | I mean it 's it 's happened and I was ha I was so interested in the subject that I asked Mr for a copy of the report where it goes back in the history and of course it is the history of trading standards and , and so on . |
| 5 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 6 | Essential meaning I introduce Gerry to a few friendly drinks . |
| 7 | I respected Brando as an actor . |
| 8 | I led Karen up a narrow companion-way marked ‘ Crew Only ’ to a constricted quarterdeck partially screened by the lifeboats hanging from their cradles . |
| 9 | He says : ‘ I met Kristy through an old boyfriend of hers . |
| 10 | All that has happened is that I met Hugo at a party and came to understand that , as well as having friend and spouse , a woman needs the excitement of a lover from time to time : a re-basing , as it were , in the physical : the reincarnation of the carnal self in a body which gets , over the years , far too controlled by spirit and mind . |
| 11 | ‘ I met Harvey in a restaurant , ’ she mused . |
| 12 | Happy couple : ‘ I met Robert in a bar : It was love at first sight ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I met Paula at a party in San Francisco where she lives . |
| 14 | ‘ I met Kay in a nightclub but did my courting in Woolworth 's where she worked , ’ he says . |
| 15 | I met Salah in a dingy toilet at the back of the greasy yard where the oasis bus was preparing to leave . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've got just the dog for that , I thought , so I registered Bewey as a PAT dog . |
| 17 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 18 | It was a very sad day for me when I visited Basil in a Harrogate hospital , when I knew that I would , probably , never see him again . |
| 19 | Said Granada 's Controller of Sport Paul Doherty : ‘ I told the ITV lawyers that I consider this unfair restriction of trade and I want ITV as a body to challenge it in the courts . |
| 20 | I used Hardraw as a starting and finishing point of a walk that goes first to Cotter Force , then passes along Cotterdale up on to Shunner Fell , crosses the Butter Tubs to Lovely Seat and returns by the upper falls above Hardraw Falls to the village itself . |
| 21 | ‘ There are several reasons why I ca n't work regularly for Riva , ’ I told Sally over a sea-bass starter and a strong Campari in L'Etoile . |
| 22 | While looking for Da Silva in an oak wood behind the farmhouse , Marius and I cornered Gionesca behind a lichen covered rock . |
| 23 | To me the justification really depends on the fact that I view Shakespeare as a terminal good . |
| 24 | To me , the justification really depends on the fact that I view Shakespeare as a terminal good . |
| 25 | By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators . |
| 26 | I have to say I like Giles as a commentator and a punid . |
| 27 | I like Chris for a boy . |
| 28 | I remember Basil as an equable and popular small child with shoulder-length curls . |
| 29 | Telling my boatman to wait , I followed Frankenstein at a distance . |
| 30 | ‘ After this severe and splendid letter I loved Lewis like a brother . |