Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the life of me I ca n't remember what courses I took — it was so boring . |
| 2 | To quieten her , to get away from the dark , lurking forest of the past , she said , ‘ I 'll get you a drink , though for the life of me I ca n't imagine why you are cold . |
| 3 | I remember that there was terrible screaming and that blows were delivered , but for the life of me I ca n't recall ever making sense of the basic problem . |
| 4 | Once the idea took hold of me I could n't rid myself of it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 6 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 7 | I 'd be more worried about Tony , cos I do n't think Tony 's as well wise as Paul is , in some ways really for both of them it would n't do them any harm you know because look , they 're , they 're , they 're not typical lads in many ways |
| 8 | It wo n't handle all of them it wo n't mean you 're g always going to get all your spellings right now |
| 9 | But because there 's two of them it wo n't stand up . ’ |
| 10 | As I said to Mum , there will be thousands there and if David Markham is one of them it will just be a question of avoiding him . |
| 11 | If there were spokes and the Scapegoat happened to be topside of them it could n't fall through . ’ |
| 12 | some of them you might just ignore and say Oh I 'm not bothered about that others |
| 13 | But erm if you took these pills religiously , some of them you would probably lose it . |
| 14 | From the pettiest official to the biggest Minister , there 's not one of them you ca n't put a price to . ’ |
| 15 | On the right side of them you 'd never guess |
| 16 | Frankly , a lot of them I would n't have allowed in my own home , let alone the Palace . |
| 17 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 18 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 19 | Only for the whole lot of you we 'd not be near that far on , ’ Moran was able to praise . |
| 20 | Because usually you go off to a restaurant and if there 's twenty of you you ca n't sit together can you ? |
| 21 | Now if you look in front of you you 'll all see little a green tray with lots of objects . |
| 22 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not that I do n't long for my former mate , But because of you I wo n't reach my flock . ’ |
| 24 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 25 | No matter who she met in the future , that walk in the lemon-scented night with him would be one part of her she would never share with anyone . |
| 26 | erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does |
| 27 | But for the life of her she could not behave as she ought when she stood among the rubble to which her life had been reduced . |
| 28 | For the life of her she could n't fathom where funerals came into it . |
| 29 | For the life of her she could n't move and as Shirley left , her face alight with enquiry , Jenna motioned the tall dark stranger to come into the sitting-room . |
| 30 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |