Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any divorce settlement I know with myself |
| 2 | reveals the fruit in ripeness , when the floss inside is ready to be plucked , as soft as the lock of hair I keep with me always from your dear golden head . |
| 3 | Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her . |
| 4 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 5 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 6 | I put on an accent I slip into something more comfortable I turn |
| 7 | ‘ When a show in town catches my fancy I go to it . |
| 8 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 9 | It is midnight and after great difficulty I managed with my little bit of French to convey to my dancing partner of the evening that I would like to see her home . |
| 10 | ‘ If you will only accept the offer of payment I made to you earlier , then the rest of the debt will be paid very shortly . ’ |
| 11 | No , the next bit I looked over me bit and you were parked up alongside me , why ? |
| 12 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 13 | ‘ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears ; not that ye should be grieved , but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you ’ ( 2 Corinthians , 2:4 ) . |
| 14 | The simple lines of modern architecture break up space and light in a very mechanical way , and not with the variety I seek in my paintings . |
| 15 | The simple lines of modern architecture break up space and light in a very mechanical way , and not with the variety I seek in my paintings . |
| 16 | In some ways it is an improvement over yet older versions , sions , but I hope you realise that the information it encapsulates is much vaguer and less certain than the description I gave of what single cells can do . |
| 17 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 18 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 19 | Of course I know about it . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course I know of nothing ! |
| 21 | Some nerve , and of course I went for it . |
| 22 | Well that course I went on you know , there was er , there were , there were , there 'd be about twelve in the class and there were two young women in the class |
| 23 | ‘ Of course I worry about you ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Of course I care about you — you 're my husband , are n't you ? |
| 25 | He examined me , and was not surprised to find I had only two legs , though of course I squealed about it . |
| 26 | Cos I was on me own and er I me ma I think me mother had gone of an errand and of course I run after her . |
| 27 | Of course I feel for him . |
| 28 | But of course I think about him in a much different way as the years go by , and now I always smile when I think of him , because he made me laugh . |
| 29 | I still miss my favourite sister , who died over twenty years ago , but of course I think of her much less than I used to . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course I talked to him , ’ said Andrus . |