Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What made me develop her along masochistic lines ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 7 | I 've been wanting you to kiss me for absolute ages . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd never seen anything like it in other people 's houses , or in shops — not even antique shops . |
| 9 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
| 10 | Remortgaging unlocks this capital , allowing you to use it for other purposes . |
| 11 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 12 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 16 | As she turned she saw him with startling clarity , brightly instantaneous as a camera flash . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Would you like us to take it in roman numeral order . |
| 20 | And there were those men who encouraged us to reprimand them for sexist thoughts and deeds . |
| 21 | He said I know I put it on full power . |
| 22 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 23 | Money procured for Minton the kind of men he needed , but his inability to possess them left him with insatiable desire , to such an extent that his relentless pursuit of young men began to intrude into everything he did . |
| 24 | You 've been cheating me , you stinking ass hole , letting me pay you for second-rate designs while you market the best ideas yourself . ’ |
| 25 | Lift a few leeks , parsnips and other overwintering vegetables and store them in a shed in case frost prevents you lifting them from open ground . |
| 26 | One 's saying we do it for free and another one 's saying it is n't . |
| 27 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 28 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
| 29 | On Nov. 11 Hezbollah radio , the Voice of the Oppressed , had broadcast an attack on the government policy statement , which , it claimed , contained nothing to distinguish it from previous policy statements . |
| 30 | She does not wish to conceal this news as she strongly believes that the mind can play a great part in overcoming such a complaint and she asks everyone to join her in positive thinking to help her to fight the illness . |