Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can show me or remind me of the difference between orange and pink , perhaps by showing me a colour chart . |
| 2 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
| 3 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 4 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 5 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
| 6 | Wallpaper them or cover them with fabric : felt , hessian , sacking , lining fabric or printed cotton . |
| 7 | Canvassers for the main parties report ‘ white-hot indifference ’ mingled with ‘ raging boredom ’ as householders slam their doors on them or attack them with peashooters and water pistols from upper windows with a degree of commitment to the democratic process which experienced observers described as ‘ unprecedented ’ and ‘ profoundly conducive to thought ’ . |
| 8 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
| 9 | It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis . |
| 10 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 11 | I 'll tell you what else you can do ; you can make half a dozen or so of those currant buns of yours and take them with you on Saturday as a kind of present for the lady . ’ |
| 12 | It took every ounce of self-control he possessed not to crush her fingers with his and pull her into his arms . |
| 13 | And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation . |
| 14 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 15 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 16 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
| 17 | ‘ He used to buy slimming magazines for me and put them in my bag , ’ remembers Victoria , who lives in Manchester . |
| 18 | He took it from me and put it on the mantelpiece . |
| 19 | ‘ Did n't you see him take it from me and put it inside his own shirt ? |
| 20 | I 've brought a bottle with me and put it in the fridge . |
| 21 | I 'll take you up with me and put you to bed . ’ |
| 22 | The delay was enough for Clerval to catch me and seize me from behind . |
| 23 | Lie down with me and cover them with my blanket . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 26 | know me and name me to each other have they |
| 27 | You will take my dyes , my remedies , my secrets away from me and use them for others . |
| 28 | Sometimes the English Catholics write to me and ask me for help , and sometimes I write to them . |
| 29 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 30 | If they decide to arrest me and throw me in gaol , my plans will have to be drastically altered … ’ |