Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the living room Bruce said he asked about any old china she might have had . |
| 2 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 3 | ‘ So if you was me , what would you think about that happy-birthday message I got ? ’ |
| 4 | yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it . |
| 5 | You were checking about that last time we met . |
| 6 | A similar argument holds for any other commodity we try to tax . |
| 7 | To illustrate this I propose to write of three other areas I have visited , Australia , Pakistan and USA . |
| 8 | As it neared its climax Joe was suddenly reminded of all this energy he was supposed to have . |
| 9 | That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch . |
| 10 | His voice was thickly clogged with some primitive emotion she assumed was rage . |
| 11 | To calculate the joint probability of the coincidence occurring in any one minute we multiply the two separate probabilities . |
| 12 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 13 | This true story of a young Ayrshire doctor starts in that vast country we know as Russia , 275 years ago , during the reign of Czar Peter the Great . |
| 14 | In a pot slung over that huge hearth she had cooked her family 's meals and , perhaps , at the end had heard in its roaring flames the crackling faggots of her dreadful martyrdom . |
| 15 | ‘ I really do n't much care , ’ she snapped , ‘ about what appeals or does not appeal to that obnoxious mire you call a mind . |
| 16 | Long before I took up climbing on any regular basis I accompanied a friend for a summer evening 's sport at Lawrencefield in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | And erm they 're loyal to the society because it , they know really it 's partly through them supporting the Guilds that we are able erm I do n't know whether I would get the membership there if you 've got , you see we pay a subscription to , see it costs five Pound a year at the moment to be , to be a member of the Womens ' Guild , which we , we send dues as I say to these three sections you see . |
| 18 | oh Rebecca , I can think of five million things I 'd rather do Rebecca says she likes ironing I certainly do n't |
| 19 | that looked fantastic and everyone said oh god he 's so artistic you know and he 's a butcher he was n't really but we just used to sit down and think of all these ideas you know |
| 20 | So er I ca n't think of any other resorts I 've turned to . |
| 21 | It irritates me that I ca n't think of enough rare foods I have n't had and have wanted to have . |
| 22 | John runs all year for fun and whilst training for this special event he was running between 5–20 miles a day . |
| 23 | Charles moved round the great car , looking for any other clues it might give . |
| 24 | However , when looking for particular explicit solutions it is necessary to consider only a few terms . |
| 25 | This would entail a sixty-mile round trip for us , but who cared if he could be freed of that perpetual pain he had suffered for so long ? |
| 26 | And now he 's forty , unmarried and still living with that old termagant he calls Mother . ’ |
| 27 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 28 | In a large blinded study done in two independent laboratories we confirmed the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies by the indirect immunofluorescence test in 79% of ulcerative colitis patients whereas only 13% of Crohn 's disease patients and 9% of the control group were positive ( means from two laboratories ) . |
| 29 | He breathes , digests , lifts an arm , takes the next step , without thinking how to do it , and if bad health forces him to analyse and choose in such peripheral matters he is sorry to be distracted from his central concerns . |
| 30 | Built from continuous cast iron it is suitable for most common gauges from 15″ to standard . |