Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Bob Lamb was longing for Sarah Butler to pay him some attention , he was unaware that Martha Oaks felt the same way about him . |
| 2 | A spokesman for Presidentelect Clinton said he had ‘ always said we need open trade , but it must be fair trade , and if foreign countries wo n't open up their markets , we have to get tough . ’ |
| 3 | That 's why I 'm still walking around , instead of resting under a shady tree waiting for Connie Fraser to join me . ’ |
| 4 | Morris then turned provider for Colin Irwin to make it 4–1 after 51 minutes . |
| 5 | For ages Bernie maintained he already knew her from somewhere but could n't quite place it . |
| 6 | I spent the evening reading , and rang for Miss Matlock to help me to bed shortly before eleven . ’ |
| 7 | It only remained then , in this tight little half-hour programme , for David Attenborough to bring us up to date on the mountain gorillas of Rwanda — they are mainly alive and moderately well but not thanks to poachers — and for Mr Soper to have a fleeting swipe at the conservation intentions of the government , and it was all over . |
| 8 | And Felton 's miscue off Neil Smith offered them a glimmer of hope . |
| 9 | Leroy May sliced a low ball across the Barnet goal , only for Richard Huxford to deflect it past his own keeper . |
| 10 | You know about Mother Theresa do you ? |
| 11 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 12 | Shortly after breakfast Fabia nosed her Volkswagen Polo in the direction of that other spa town and fifty minutes later she was walking through the spa park with its trees , benches and bandstand . |
| 13 | A spokesman for IBM France said it had already earmarked 1,500 job cuts for 1993 through voluntary redundancies , but did not rule out further measures if the market deteriorated . |
| 14 | ‘ The only thing I really want is for Alonzo Kettless to carve me an East Suffolk Policeman 's helmet , ’ said Chief Superintendent Rom Rumsby on his retirement . |
| 15 | Neither party seem too interested in the other , and that night I dream about Enoch Powell showing me around a slum street with a vile grin on his face . |
| 16 | During lunch Joe kept us entertained with anecdotes about his friends and contributors — old Wyndham Lewis , half blind , who was one of his art critics , and who , when taken to eat at L'Escargot , just pushed his gourmet food around on his plate . |
| 17 | Tall and elegantly mustachioed , David Esterly is a softly spoken Californian in his mid-forties whose passion for Grinling Gibbons takes him by surprise even today . |
| 18 | The Danish star failed to hang on to a shot from Steve Clarke and the ball ran away from him for Gavin Peacock to sweep it home and stun the United fans . |
| 19 | After lunch Joanna asked what kind of progress Sophie thought they were making with small animals . |
| 20 | Here in the vaulted chalk cellars of Champagne Veuve Cliquot we were to discover that Champagne reaches the parts that other breakfasts beverages do n't reach . |
| 21 | Indeed the great legal code of King Hammurabi found it necessary to include a few consumer protection laws governing the sale of alcoholic beverages . |
| 22 | The outbreak of civil war and the death of King John saved it : when the Great Charter was re-issued on 12 November 1216 , after the accession of the infant Henry III , article 48 regarding ‘ evil customs , was one of the ‘ difficult and doubtful ’ clauses which were omitted and postponed for further consideration . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course Jim loves you , ’ I 'd tell myself . |
| 24 | Well he whispered to me last night , you know , then of course Laura told me everything cos she was there |
| 25 | But of course Stephen knows him much better , he was at college with him , and they 've always kept in touch , in a fairly loose sort of way . |
| 26 | Of course Claudia believed it . ’ |
| 27 | Of course Silas knew she was in love with him , she decided , feeling acutely embarrassed . |
| 28 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 29 | A RECENT photograph of Kingsley Amis shows him with a cat , which is standing beside his typewriter . |
| 30 | ‘ Mrs Nowak was surprised by the amount of money Mills left her . |