Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’ |
| 2 | You see , ’ he said , as Peggy put her hand in his , ‘ I 'm very interested in what you 've told me about someone stealing bulbs . |
| 3 | So we 're the first to have them after them gaining number one . |
| 4 | That poems are alive but they run away from you , you know and you have difficulty catching them like you have difficulty catching foxes . |
| 5 | If the lightning had struck me like it had Ben , it would have meant no hope for me . |
| 6 | It will probably haunt me like it did Walter Winterbottom when he lost to the States in 1950 . |
| 7 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |
| 8 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 9 | If we needed to talk to your scheme and if we would , it would be fairly serious incident for us to come to you , to tell you about it ask Phil for some help with it . |
| 10 | Bewitched you with her lying tales and slippery ways as well as my poor sister ! ’ |
| 11 | Yes , well I did n't call , but I did said Jane , well you leave , well I 'll leave you to it said Mr Sandy , if you would come upstairs , the policeman and Jane entered her room , please look in the cupboard , I think we 've got a case Sarge , do you mind if I make a quick phone call ? |
| 12 | Disturbed , Isa proposed Wilson and Pilade should come with her up to Bellosguardo for the afternoon and , since no protest was made , she hustled the two of them into her waiting carriage and whisked them off at once , leaving Maria with instructions to be there upon their return . |
| 13 | I have to say that when we came across any martyrs , we tended to regard them with something approaching envy . |
| 14 | Silas snatched them from her shaking hands . |
| 15 | As I drove into Brighton , I did not see one sign to the Labour Party conference , but many directing me to something called Bodytalk . |
| 16 | There are times when barbel are so preoccupied with whatever business they have at hand , whether it be feeding , spawning , or just browsing , you can stand on the river 's edge right over the top of them and watch them without them taking fright and scurrying off . |
| 17 | Because they 'd already warned , they 've already warned her about you know sort of con people and you know |
| 18 | Terry spoke evenly , if coolly , about Jacobsen , but Tom remembered him with something approaching venom . |
| 19 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 20 | As Tempy helped her into her riding clothes , Tamar fidgeted and moved about until the maid was driven to distraction . |
| 21 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 22 | If his guitar is his lover , watch as he beats her , caresses her and apologises to her in one fell swoop of his arms . |
| 23 | Lucenzo burst into laughter himself , and she wished he had n't , a sharp jolt of awareness rocketing through her body at the dazzling transformation of his face and the deep , warm sound that had travelled through her to her tingling toes . |
| 24 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 25 | Far be it for me to mention Huntingdon district council but that is one which |
| 26 | But far be it for us to shed crocodile tears over the bruised egos of our male counterparts . |
| 27 | So , you know , is there anything , is it about the way you work , is it about the way the course is taught , is it about you know sort of reassurance and pastoral type stuff , is it about , you know , what ? |
| 28 | She would not put it past him to use force . |
| 29 | " What business is it of yours to make insinuations against me , I 'd like to know , eh ? |
| 30 | which is what I 've done for something else and what we simply did was to take an A 4 landscape sheet erm and carve a syllabus over I think that was sixteen or eighteen weeks or something up , and divide it into you know units of competence , elements of competence and the assignments and the homework |