Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I see my chaplain sniggering at me so I 'll voice my fear . |
| 2 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 3 | Cos erm I think she or was it Yvonne said to me perhaps I 'll find me hillbilly lend me er yeah |
| 4 | Repairs can be undertaken by a good skilled boot repairer , but if you have difficulty finding someone locally you can send your boots or shoes to Shoecare at Preston . |
| 5 | ‘ There is someone here who can answer your question better than I can , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Air Tours , they said me it 's no use going somebody you do n't know , you maybe seen them through they might take your money and that 's it . |
| 7 | My colleagues and I look forward to discussing with you ways in which together we can help your organisation fulfil that role during the decade ahead . |
| 8 | When he first started selling peg trousers he developed a stance to show them off He 'd bend his legs at the knee and stand half turned . |
| 9 | If you 're gon na run a business , you need to know what charges are coming on board you so you can adjust your rates so you |
| 10 | Are you going to just have them in front of you so you can flick your eyes up and down to remind yourself what you 're next going to say ? |
| 11 | I 'm coming to sit with you tonight I 'll take my dram with you and those parents of yours . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't back up will you else you 'll slice my head off . |
| 13 | But now we are one again he 'll expect his own personal maid , cook and bottle-washer . |
| 14 | This left her asking herself how she should direct her success and what her responsibilities to society were . |
| 15 | Is there anywhere I can powder my nose ? ( meaning : ‘ I need a toilet ’ ) |
| 16 | There was nothing here which could mar his relations with her , or of course with Jack . |
| 17 | Later still , the analyst suggests that Fraser may want to offer reparation , by writing this book , for the guilt he had felt in relation to his father , and Fraser asks : ‘ For wanting to destroy him so I could have my mother to myself ? ’ |
| 18 | Because so many parents were asking her how they could help their children with reading , teacher and mother of three Barbara Geere wrote Seven Ways to Help Your Child With Reading ( Seven Ways Series , £1.95 ) , which sets out simply how to make a start , build up your child 's confidence , make reading fun ( with plenty of learning games to make or buy ) and , at the end , how to form letters . |
| 19 | I told him how I could freeze my eidetic images , then project my phantom body into them , to discover things that I could not possibly have known . |
| 20 | She told him how she used to dread her time . |
| 21 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 22 | Mark asked him how he could reconcile his views with what was clearly Britain s basic needs ; the need to maintain a strong manufacturing base as a defence capability ; the need to correct a massive and worsening trade deficit on manufactured products ; and the need to provide talented school-leavers with creative career opportunities in the manufacturing sector as designers , physicists , chemists and engineers as opposed to the more mundane jobs in the service sector as warehousemen and handlers of other countries ' goods . |
| 23 | And I knew what it was like to be tired and weary , but I knew that if I trusted in God and spent time with him then he would renew my strength and I could carry on . |
| 24 | if he does n't like her then I 'll tell my friend not to come . |
| 25 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 26 | All I did was spend my time tell telling them how they could do their job better . |
| 27 | And ask them how they 'd answer their children 's inevitable questions , such as ‘ why do n't I have a daddy like the other kids at school ? ’ |
| 28 | Arrogant bully ! … trying to tell me how I should pass my time and with whom I should pass it . |
| 29 | Please tell me how I can arrange my valuable wardrobe space so that I 'm able to get the most out of it ? |
| 30 | Some football lovers might wish they ca n't find it so we can have our outstanding memories of Maradona at his supreme best . |