Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was decided that he should leave next day for London and that I should stop on and finish my baths and meet him in Paris .
2 Even if you 'd been arrest if I put my eyes and rest them on you .
3 I wipe my lips and follow him to the door .
4 And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’
5 My mind 's got so flexible I could pull it out of my ears and tie it under my chin ! ’ snapped Gurder .
6 People sometimes look at my pictures and compare them to Emerson 's .
7 Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days .
8 When they did n't have a gang to fight they 'd run after me , take off my trousers and hide them in a bush .
9 ‘ I would like to spend one year here , continue my studies and test myself against the best British players . ’
10 If human communication were a simple matter of reciprocally exchanged words , if words had no resonances beyond themselves , I might have been proud to be cast in such a role , and either self-confident enough in my ability to fulfil it , or else realistic enough to modify my directives and declare myself in favour of some more modest role .
11 You know I very carefully picked up my glasses and put them in the case and put it in my in there
12 Have a tin of , have a pack of my chocolates and give them to Gail , and give them to that to Beverley .
13 Either you accept my terms and face me in combat , or I will leave you here with your weapons … and two corpses ! ’
14 I 've got to go through my advisers and put it before the other board members in the proper manner . ’
15 It is impossible to meet every person 's expectations and my hope is that you will forgive my mistakes and keep me in your thoughts and prayers .
16 ‘ If you do not mind me ’ , the Christian General told the astonished headman , ‘ I will take my soldiers and drive you on the reservation ! ’
17 I have it in my power to choose my thoughts and lead them as if they are flocks and herds .
18 While I waited , I took the films out of my cameras and put them in the home-made packets .
19 Leasing the herbage and pannage would disturb the deer in their lairs and deprive them of their pasture .
20 But the red bitch chose that same day to pick up the remaining puppy in her teeth and carry it by the scruff of the neck up the ladder and into the house .
21 Zoos have a good stock of the lar gibbon Hylobates lar but are low on all the others , and so the CBSG is advising zoos to get rid of their lars and replace them with species such as hoolock H. hoolock and concolor H. concolor .
22 Then if you feel it is appropriate , address them to their homes and send them by registered mail .
23 The Gamegear reflects this desire , allowing youngsters to play their favourite games at home but also to take them away from their homes and enjoy them on the move .
24 On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) .
25 For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty .
26 ‘ Hang 'em , burn 'em , torture 'em , throw 'em to the wolves , cut off their ears and nail 'em to the notice board , ’ shouted a particularly excited worshipper .
27 His firm prick forced her to open her lips and take him into her mouth .
28 The Lamia also had a peculiar ability to take out her eyes and hold them in her hand .
29 Opo would ease between her legs and take her for rides .
30 ‘ If we had been away and had a long night-time car journey ahead of us , ’ he said , ‘ we used to put the children in their pyjamas and wrap them in blankets before we started .
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