Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has made an excellent start to the year and I shall have more to say about them next time as I plan to visit Faverolles in August to see the additional breakfast cereal production capacity which will be coming on stream this autumn . |
| 2 | He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning . |
| 3 | for me last year and he and he did Yeah I will see him |
| 4 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 5 | The Sun had all sorts of details about my private life that I never knew about . |
| 6 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 7 | ‘ You know I have n't walked so much during my entire lifetime as I 've walked these last few days , ’ he said with an effort to divert her from her dark thoughts . |
| 8 | I 've been sifting through my daily routine and I 've turned up quite a handsome collection of finely-wrought deceits cultivated over the years . |
| 9 | I did not get a grant for my preclinical years so I worked half time in research for two years . |
| 10 | Captivated by Christ and his love she ‘ was greatly moved with love for my fellow Christians that they might know and see what I was seeing , for I wanted to cheer them too ’ . |
| 11 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 12 | I have used shades of orange and yellow for my stylised flowers but you , of course , can choose your own favourite colours . |
| 13 | If I do n't get back and find Jeff soon it 'll be time for my last bus and I ca n't go without seeing him . |
| 14 | It was only when I went for my yearly check-up that I was told I had endometriosis . |
| 15 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 17 | I gave him a rocket , but that was more for my own good than his . |
| 18 | He 's only doing it for my own good but I still do n't like it . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is fortunate for my own sake that I have no further letter now . ’ |
| 20 | I now speak for my learned friend when I say that he will expert that . |
| 21 | I 've barely had time to wipe the blood off my axe after my last battle and it 's already time to hack my way through the next trail ! |
| 22 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |
| 23 | He had been a reporter then and it was some time after their first meeting that he had begun his campaign to highlight the plight of the poor . |
| 24 | Ballymena soon settled after their indifferent start and they levelled matters on eight minutes with a goal which came right out of the blue . |
| 25 | But Mr Taylor said : ‘ The PFA have to look after their own affairs and we already have Professor Sir John Wood in that very role . |
| 26 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
| 27 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 28 | In the course of time Aunt Nessy , having looked after her adoptive parents until they died , was left a small sum of money . |
| 29 | President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill . |
| 30 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |