Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 2 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 3 | If you 're complete beginners , active , familiar with camping or caravanning conditions , and two or you pay for our ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course in Nidri , then we know you 'll be safe to skipper your own yacht for the second week on flotilla . |
| 4 | The ‘ Do you remember when ? ’ stories can be so important in getting to know the person who has died , in hearing about how he or she appeared to their surviving family and friends . |
| 5 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 6 | A person 's membership of the committee is automatically terminated : ( i ) if he becomes bankrupt ( his trustee replaces him ) or he compounds with his creditors ; ( ii ) if he is not present or represented at three consecutive meetings ( unless at the third meeting it is resolved that this rule will not apply ) ; and ( iii ) if he ceases to be or is found never to have been a creditor ( r 6.158 ) . |
| 7 | Just before she died , she asked Elizabeth and me to go to her room . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't be stupid , ’ I snap , and I suck on my Jameson 's . |
| 9 | and I looked into his bronze , |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I could handle it — but the very next day we 'd been sightseeing and returned to our suite and I looked into your eyes and felt myself drowning . |
| 11 | Like the midwife who came to see me said , " Ooh , you 're only seventeen " , and I looked at her — how old do you have to be to have a baby — forty or something ? |
| 12 | And I looked at his sad face . |
| 13 | It took me about three or four minutes to rescue it and I looked at my ‘ prize ’ . |
| 14 | And my hands were going like this and I looked at my clock and it was about six o'clock and it was still pitch black because it jump back into bed . |
| 15 | But erm I looked through the books and erm I wrote down notes and things like that , and I looked through my exercise book . |
| 16 | I 'm an ex-carer , and I looked after my aunt for three and a half years , and could I say that it 's not all negative although it times you could scream ! |
| 17 | It 's a very good paper , and I approve of its line , which is important : so many of my friends work for papers they ca n't stand . ’ |
| 18 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 19 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
| 20 | I had a fair idea as to who had done it , and I passed on my suspicions about so-and-so and so-and-so , and asked for something to be done about it . |
| 21 | I had strap many times , I remember once , on my desk , in my desk , they were lift up desks at the time , and it it and it was teacher was a grand fellow , and I got under my desk , underneath my desk , written underneath it , erm God helps them that helps themselves , but God help them that I catch in this desk . |
| 22 | The chauffeur had the night off , he was celebrating down in Basildon , so Babs and I got into my Porsche and headed off to Ealing . |
| 23 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |
| 24 | I felt a bit shy , going back to school , and I hovered on their doorstep thinking what to say . |
| 25 | Put down my pen and I heard in my ears the howl of the fleeing dog , saw the metal flash of Sophie 's shoe — I could not bear it . |
| 26 | He was lying with his legs across the path , and I fell on my knees beside him . |
| 27 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
| 28 | There was a knock on the door and I wriggled to my feet . |
| 29 | As Richard and I chronicled in our ‘ book of the ads ’ You Got an Ology ? ’ in the first two-week shoot we made ten commercials . |
| 30 | I appreciate the point that my hon. Friend is making and I know of his support for museums and galleries in York and in Yorkshire . |