Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	What would Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton make of it all ?
2	Manipulating his zimmer with dexterity , Chatterton nodded at them both and left .
3	Adeane counselled against it all , and was backed by the Duke of Edinburgh .
4	Whatever Jean saw in you that first occasion was still there and she accepted your explanation about letting her down that evening .
5	Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production .
6	Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week .
7	Is the list going to have a new name from Northern Ireland added to it this season ?
8	Boeing paid for it all , and perhaps it would be well for the more cynically-minded who believe aircraft manufacturers are only in the business to make money to remember that Boeing had no legal obligation to contribute a single penny .
9	Dominic looked at them both enquiringly , but there was no response .
10	When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water .
11	And they 've got an Inspector and Sargeant seconded to them all the time , and a highly paid civilian and other civilian staff
12	Simon Swan answered for them all .
13	Coleridge 's headlong arrival into the lives of William and Dorothy Wordsworth remained for them all a charged and exhilarating memory .
14	But Carrie brooded about it all the same .
15	‘ Gog talked to me this morning , ’ she said .
16	Grainne looked at them all with love and delight , and with an immense tenderness , and said , ‘ Are you so sure ? ’
17	Mel was a permanent fixture in our 1st Division defences and , over the four seasons 1969–73 , only John Jackson appeared for us more times than he did , while his 151 1st Division games for us tell of a stalwart and dependable defender who could be relied upon in every situation .
18	Why had he let Antonini get to him that way ?
19	Could be any time now , we 're just waiting tha Mr explained to him this morning , you know , why it , it ta takes so long
20	Now here was a boy who listened stolidly while Hugo read to him some of the greatest literature in the world ; who yawned over Villon ; who stared out of the window longingly while Hugo read Maupassant or Flaubert .
21	Smallfry walked with him all the way to the playground , where the other children bunched together in little groups to stare at the absentee and his beautiful mother .
22	Anna looked at them both .
23	‘ Ees left for you this morning , señor .
24	But thoughts of Edith stayed with him all that evening .
25	The real key question of course was what did Jack think of it all .
26	Mr. Wadsworth submits to us that contempt of court is an offence of a criminal character , albeit it is a civil proceeding .
27	Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life .
28	Pausing just long enough to sweep the old man 's triumphant face with an antagonistic look , Beth turned from them both and went , head high , out of the room and into the hallway , where the late March sunshine found its way through the tall arched windows , and where the air seemed relatively fresh compared to the musty damp smell of the old man 's den .
29	Now I am not , of course , challenging the excellence that God requires from us all but I am challenging a tendency to overthrow the radical message of incarnation .
30	Joe looked on us both with quizzical amusement , no doubt savouring the incongruity of our companionship .

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