Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 2 | I suppose I 've done my part to help them by writing extensively about laser weapons for New Scientist and other magazines . |
| 3 | I found no great welcome ; people seemed quite oblivious of my arrival , and no doubt it was unconscious arrogance on my part to expect it to be otherwise . |
| 4 | Jamie shoved one hand down the back of my cords to keep me from falling on my face , and put the other hand on to my forehead , murmuring something . |
| 5 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 6 | It 's a thought that crossed my mind to help you as a trainer . |
| 7 | ‘ It would never for one moment cross my mind to accuse you of being a sentimentalist . ’ |
| 8 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 9 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 10 | Then , with a smile that set all the butterflies off again , ‘ It 's my intention to take you to where the food is really good , and also show you something of the city by night . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It — hmm — never was my intention to take you on the couch in my drawing-room , ’ he commented gruffly , purposely putting some daylight between them . |
| 12 | ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’ |
| 13 | I put my bags between my feet to feel them with my legs , and took out my flight ticket . |
| 14 | At the end of the afternoon 's events the Head makes an emotional speech praising my athleticism , my versatility , my stamina and my humility as he kneels at my feet to present me with the ‘ School 's Outstanding Sportsperson of the Decade ’ award . |
| 15 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |
| 16 | I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going . |
| 17 | I used my right to haul him to me , and I use it again to punch his head . |
| 18 | ‘ At Marriage Guidance , ’ went on Henry , ‘ I did n't feel able to discuss my need to tie you to the bed and whip you with my pyjama cord . |
| 19 | I also had a rather childish trust in the police until the day they turned up on my doorstep to question me about a murder . |
| 20 | It was hardly surprising , therefore , that my refusal to accompany him to America so irked him . |
| 21 | 'Cos he took them boots and it was my job to take them to the big house for the gentleman . ’ |
| 22 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 23 | And I see it as part of my job to help them to be able to judge their own work … |
| 24 | Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order . |
| 25 | Although they did not know the reason for my journey , they were far too sensitive to my feelings to bother me with questions . |
| 26 | At least the President saw enough sense to agree to my request to put you in charge of the unit . |
| 27 | By that time the sun was well up , and I took off my jacket to lay it with my bags and binoculars . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 29 | She was hysterical and distraught and I took her through for my wife to comfort her before telephoning the police . ’ |
| 30 | Instead of inviting my patients to see me at 10-minute intervals — generally I offer them each 10 minutes of my time — I shall invite the lot to attend at 9 o'clock in the morning . |