Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her father 's death she moved to Petersfield , Hampshire , where she supported herself by washing clothes , brewing , and other types of manual work . |
| 2 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 3 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 4 | Just as you have a routine for looking after your skin , so you need one for looking after your hair . |
| 5 | Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought . |
| 6 | We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose . |
| 7 | No cos the health visitor , she , cos I asked her about sterilizing , and , and she said with all teats they should be sterilized no matter what age they are |
| 8 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 9 | Something warned her that it might be better to wait and see what happened during her vacation and to contact Freddie when she returned , if she had anything worth relating . |
| 10 | ‘ The only way a girl like you gets on in this world is if she has something worth selling . |
| 11 | or though you could just like , if you got something for say ten ninety nine and it was fifteen pounds and you got something else as well |
| 12 | If you committed yourself to doing every exercise in Part Two in the order given , you would miss an opportunity to ‘ listen to the whispers ’ which guide you towards what you need , right now , as a unique individual . |
| 13 | Because it stretches , it avoids the hard line you can get between welt and garment if you join them by casting off . |
| 14 | You may cut the towelling into large squares , and then you can come and be my nurse — and God help you , McAllister , if you hinder me by starting to have fine lady 's vapours . |
| 15 | If you have anything for do with a boy now , you will get pregnant . ’ |
| 16 | The spirit can be carried fairly safely in closed containers and evaporates quickly if you spill it without leaving a smell or mess . |
| 17 | It 's far more likely that you will get the spells you are looking for if you select them from say the Amethyst or the Jade college rather than choosing one from Jade , one from Bright , one from Amethyst etc . |
| 18 | If you rationalise it by saying I do n't want a row because I 've got so much on my plate , it usually bounces back at you , often in an amplified form . |
| 19 | If we restrict ourselves to puts and calls on a single security there are 4 simple types of investment strategy to look at : |
| 20 | To understand what an ocean is , it is far more helpful to see one rather than just read about oceans , and if we experience it by swimming in it or crossing it by boat , we are likely to have a much more real understanding . |
| 21 | But does that stop the problem if if we report someone for depositing litter I E a settee , I mean they do n't want to really deposit it there , is it quality of life that 's forced them to do it . |
| 22 | feelings such as anger , worry and guilt are only worth having if they provoke you into doing something effective . |
| 23 | But they also want to feel that they can ask for support or advice if they need it without feeling that they are being judged badly for doing so . |
| 24 | It was as if they considered themselves above socialising with a mere shop assistant . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'll nag us now about winning the peace , just like they nagged us about winning the war . |
| 26 | And Kegan was old-womaning around until he drove me to agreeing to talk to the wretched people . |
| 27 | What did it matter if it stopped her from sleeping ? |
| 28 | But if it brings us to looking at medieval manuscripts more and more closely , peering with pleasure into the borders of bunnies and monkeys , whether we seek deliberate smut or idle whimsy , it makes Images on the Edge well worth reading . |
| 29 | Well he said if he accuses me of fiddling with the telly I 'll punch his fucking |
| 30 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |