Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What made me develop her along masochistic lines ? |
| 2 | Yes When I put on red one day , I mean I do n't think I have anything in red do I , but when I put on my clothes in the morning |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know you had anything against sweaty bodies , ’ said Quigly . |
| 4 | Listen , d' you know anything about modern marketing ? |
| 5 | If you want one prefer one with conventional oven |
| 6 | Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways . |
| 7 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 8 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 9 | It does n't prevent them being ambitious and idealistic for themselves , or stop them comparing themselves with other students in their class , their school , in other parts of the country or the world . |
| 10 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 11 | By way of a contrast to the more usual content found between these covers , let me take you to Georgian England at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century . |
| 12 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 13 | I 've been wanting you to kiss me for absolute ages . ’ |
| 14 | Erm I hope you 've lots of interesting ideas . |
| 15 | He did n't look very happy , but then , when had she ever seen him look anything except cool or irritable , or arrogantly amused ? |
| 16 | I hope they bring lots of nice samples . |
| 17 | She 'd never seen anything like it in other people 's houses , or in shops — not even antique shops . |
| 18 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
| 19 | Remortgaging unlocks this capital , allowing you to use it for other purposes . |
| 20 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 21 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 22 | The thrifts-rescue act of August 1989 at first contained a clause banning thrifts from holding junk bonds , later weakened to require them to place them in special subsidiaries insulated from deposit insurance . |
| 23 | Readers will remember my telling them of British Coal 's current advertising campaign aimed at convincing the power generators to place any future contracts with it . |
| 24 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 25 | As she turned she saw him with startling clarity , brightly instantaneous as a camera flash . |
| 26 | " Thank you , Mrs James , we should like you to confine yourself to first-hand evidence … you wrote to your husband , of course , to explain the arrangements you had made in his absence ? " |
| 27 | When you name a document of your own , you can add your own filename extension to help you distinguish it from other types of files . |
| 28 | Knowledge Adventure — text , pictures and sound effects to help you thrash everyone at Trivial Pursuit |
| 29 | Conversely , most other students , as well as former ‘ women 's libbers ’ , with whom Laura might have thought she had nothing in common , warmly welcomed her clothes . |
| 30 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |