Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fat chance of that , or of persuading Jessica to go with her to Aunt Jane 's in Port Erin . |
| 2 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 3 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 4 | Alexandra gazed about her with delight , folding the Burrows , the Pemberleys , the Chamberlins , the village , everyone , into the warm embrace of her grateful glance , and sang and sang . |
| 5 | I decided to ask Mrs Dean to sit with me after supper . |
| 6 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 7 | Peggy gazed at her in dismay . |
| 8 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 9 | And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him . |
| 10 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 11 | The light from outside , and the light from the sitting-room shone through to her room as Ven moved with her to her bed and sat down there with her . |
| 12 | I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good . |
| 13 | In some circumstances as the cases show , Mr. Lawson referred to them in his skeleton argument , prejudice will be presumed from substantial delay . |
| 14 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 15 | Well the only thing we have a problem on ‘ Sonnet ’ with , Luke , so far as I can see anyway , and I know Jeff agrees with me on this — right Jeff ? — and so does Jim incidentally , Luke , ’ said Joe , ‘ is the form . ’ |
| 16 | Heidi gazed at him in astonishment . |
| 17 | Rory had driven up and slipped into her bed like lightning , because he had already cooked up the plan to try and entice Jessica Roberts to go with him to Galway , and needed to sweeten Rosie for another evening 's absence . |
| 18 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
| 19 | Having met Hermione Farthingale , David lived with her for a year . |
| 20 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 21 | So Jesus asked the question : How can the Messiah be the son of David if David refers to him as Lord ? |
| 22 | Manville toyed with it for a few moments , imagining the corridors of the Pentagon and White House alive with zooming figures , grey-flannel covered asses farting tongues of flame . |
| 23 | Sylvie gazed at him in momentary confusion . |
| 24 | Sylvie moved towards them at once . |
| 25 | Before long , Knocknarea towered over me in escarpments of sheer rock , with grassland visible high in the sky . |
| 26 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 27 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 28 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 29 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |
| 30 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |