Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
2 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
3 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
4 | From the comments of Jimmy Armfield ( what does he know about football I hear you ask ) Deane looked completly out of place and completly uninterested . |
5 | Once , when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again . |
6 | When Dad had eaten his tea I heard him ask Mum if she 'd kept the payments up on the insurance policy . |
7 | It was perhaps the small electric heater in my bedroom which made him say that . |
8 | He was wearing a grey suit with a light polo-neck sweater which made him look younger and at the same time more intimidating than he had the day before . |
9 | They assume a jurisdiction to declare whether a marriage has taken place or not , whether there is any impediment which makes it void or voidable . |
10 | I was just thinking how this feels incredibly … atmospheric , ’ she heard herself admitting reluctantly , waving an arm to encompass the satiny darkness of the sea all around them , ‘ I was thinking of the ghosts of all those Spanish galleons which met a sticky end in these very waters , hundreds of years ago , ’ she added , with a touch of melodrama which made him laugh out loud . |
11 | Rick James and Alison Gower also recorded a win in the 6–2 result which sees them clear of the relegation zone . |
12 | ‘ When you body starts to heal , they ca n't breathe , so they release a chemical which makes you itch ; when you scratch , it takes the scab off the wound so they can breathe again . |
13 | He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church . |
14 | There was a sort of noisy anonymity about the rattling carriage which made him feel safe . |
15 | Thames Water has a code of practice which lets you know what we will do for you . |
16 | These more strident attitudes expressed in properly speaking ethical statements are ways of being in favour of or against types of behaviour with a degree of force which makes us wish disfavoured actions discouraged by some kind of social sanction . |
17 | ‘ They do n't have a lot left over for themselves and they see smoking as an affordable luxury which helps them cope . ’ |
18 | His face , to be sure , is not built for mirth : framed by luxuriant , shoulder-length black hair , his chubbyish cheeks curve round into a pinched mouth which makes him resemble Roshan Seth , the Indian actor who played the hero 's vodka-sodden father in My Beautiful Laundrette . |
19 | Such a nuisance it is because it 's a condition which makes you tire more easily , leaving you short of energy and breath . |
20 | As she went towards her car she heard him call , ‘ I 'll look out for you . ’ |
21 | ‘ In charge of ’ can be proved by the police officer or other witness who saw him near or sat in the vehicle for example . |
22 | If both prisoners stay mum , the police have a witness who saw them co-operate on a lesser crime , one that would put them both behind bars for two years . |
23 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
24 | It 's the humiliation they make you feel . |
25 | When you said you came from good tough stock it made me shiver a bit . |
26 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
27 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
28 | Rock what did you do ? |
29 | The word trill what do you think it meant ? |
30 | And er Superintendent what did you do then ? |