Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend to sit by you all night . |
| 2 | Er I was at Portugal , we had fancied going to America but er my husband 's young brother and his wife want to come with us this year and they 've got two young kids so they felt it was far enough for them . |
| 3 | But I want to look at them both and I will go through them as well and mark them for spelling and for for your punctuation and everything else . |
| 4 | ‘ We want to put behind us these tawdry , shabby years of the 1980s ’ materialism , the salmonella , listeria society of Thatcher . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah yeah well I 've done it and I just want to check with you that what we 've done is right and then I can er |
| 6 | But she had my Aegean Greece , which I hope said to her more what I should have wished to say . |
| 7 | so I hope to hear from her this week . |
| 8 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 9 | Termitologists have made great advances in working out how the pheromone communication system controls and coordinates a colony 's activities , but no one has yet explained how the millions of blind workers , each carrying a tiny pellet of mud , manage to construct between them such ingeniously designed , efficient and large-scale buildings . |
| 10 | Oh I l I l I like looking at it that 's the main thing . |
| 11 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 12 | As X becomes a very very very small number , or a large negative number , if you like to think of it that way , where X is very large . |
| 13 | I like to think of us all as a successful unit and it 's disruptive for the others if one member persistently refuses to conform as you do . ’ |
| 14 | so I should , er , that should have set the precedent , I get paid for it this year |
| 15 | When I decide to talk to you this way , my hours are spiked as if we really have a date planned . |
| 16 | He also has some good friends at school and the company of the Christine family and of course Uncle Kevin and Auntie Linda , the new hostel parents , so please continue to pray for them all , as they continue to face up to continued separation from their parents . |
| 17 | Yeah , you keep screaming into it that 's why ! |
| 18 | At least when you think about you start to sound like you that 's the problem with the job . |
| 19 | I 've travelled with them all : had a lovely Villa in Tuscany one year through Villas Italia — I 'd organised a party of 14 to come with me , but at the last moment her Mum said no . |
| 20 | Yes I have I I 've looked through them all . |
| 21 | We 've done without you all these months , we can do without you still . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've seen to it all . |
| 23 | I 've written to them all . |
| 24 | I 've got of them all . |
| 25 | That 's a shame because I do n't normally use overheads and I 've got into them this year and er my stats group in particular , who get the same sort of treatment as you do , have actually said th |
| 26 | I 've stayed with them several times . |
| 27 | Williams added : ‘ At this moment in time it is a relegation match but it is n't one we particularly fear — I 've played against them this season and I know they 're not the Forest of old . |
| 28 | So you feel happier now you 've spoken to him this morning ? |
| 29 | In fact , it seems I 've spoken to him more since he left the club . |
| 30 | I mean , we 've passed over it several times since we first heard the ticking and we 've triggered nothing . |