Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 2 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 3 | It did n't occur to me that criticism coming from an American of American business might be acceptable , but from someone like me , was much much harder to take . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 5 | Certainly not the radiant glow of confidence and success , or it sure as hell would n't have worked for me that Saturday round at Ramillies Drive . |
| 6 | He saw the tail of an Me 109 fighter shooting into the distance . |
| 7 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 8 | The Watch had ensured this by giving them ample time to escape via the back door , a neat compromise between caution and justice that benefited all parties . |
| 9 | She cut corners , gave them short-term memories borrowed from a pair of marshals she had Dreamed for Neutrino Junction , and had them limit their thoughts to immediate matters . |
| 10 | TIP : When Koi start taking their first protein food , feed them some pellets treated with oxolinic acid in a concentration of 5gm per kilogram . |
| 11 | The commune moved to Devon , leaving behind them some rhubarb growing in the garden which was still there when Jarvis moved in . |
| 12 | Without them some data gathered in orbit will have nowhere to go . |
| 13 | People have brought their cars to my advice surgery to show me burnt paintwork caused by soot deposits . |
| 14 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 15 | Anyway , my sister 's bought me this thing to go round my neck . |
| 16 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 17 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 18 | Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown . |
| 19 | Managers and engineers could not help but admire the assiduity and skill with which he could wear down his opponents in discussion , but for many of them this approach conflicted with other managerial values . |
| 20 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 21 | I work out the odds against the cargo being lost , based on weather reports and piracy records for the last twenty years , then I add a bit , then you pay me some money based on those odds — ’ |
| 22 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 23 | When I was ill she gave me some herbs made into a medicine and I got better quite quickly . |
| 24 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 26 | Can you give me some safety hints on garden step design ? |
| 27 | Big style give me some boards to look at |
| 28 | Delaney raised a critical eyebrow : His one question went to the heart of the matter , since he could think of no other reason for the involvement of G9 . |
| 29 | Former champion hurdler Beech Road is an interesting contender , as he reverts to fences after a disappointing season over the smaller obstacles , where his one success came in the ‘ Fighting Fifth ’ at Newcastle . |
| 30 | The craze hit England in 1951 , when musicians such as Larry Adler , Steve Race and Humphrey Lyttelton ( the latter emulating a traditional jazz band in his One Man Went To Blow ) attempted to make a whole which was greater than the sum of the parts . |