Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more ants would need to go up into space for them to see themselves in perspective . |
| 2 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 3 | Sanay just ask me to drive you into town , baby . ’ |
| 4 | Then he added , with a sudden burst of frankness , ‘ I reckoned the news would seep out anyway in time and cause them to lose plenty of sleep . ’ |
| 5 | In fact when you enter a large mental hospital you do enter a special kind of world , a village with streets and sign posts , and usually , for in such places , everyone has plenty of time on their hands , no shortage of people willing to direct you to where you want to go . |
| 6 | This means that everyone has something in common with the rest of the group and it leads to a more relaxed and productive social activity . |
| 7 | Deborah invited me to meet her at home in North London , and mentioned on the phone that her mum , Elaine , would like to meet me too . |
| 8 | He sent me a memorandum directing me to inform him in future before I write to any newspaper periodical on matters appertaining to the force . |
| 9 | Everyone helped themselves to food . |
| 10 | Rose 's coming to the house had smoothed their lives and allowed them to concentrate everything on school and study , which , above all , they saw as a way out of the house and into a life of their own . |
| 11 | ‘ Can I make it in time ? ’ |
| 12 | When I caught up , Ann was still obviously very distressed and I asked what on earth was wrong . |
| 13 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 14 | Werewolf admired her motorbike , I asked her about weekend games at the farm . |
| 15 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 16 | I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit |
| 17 | ‘ I asked her to supper on Friday . |
| 18 | ‘ Yesterday , when I asked you about animal rights , you said you were out of it and clammed up good and proper . |
| 19 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 20 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 21 | If someone asked you in French you might have to think about what tasse du thé means before you visualised a cup of tea and said ‘ Oui , s'il vous plait ’ . |
| 22 | I hugged her in front of the Matisses . |
| 23 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 24 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 25 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 26 | I made you from oak . |
| 27 | Luckily , I made it in time . |
| 28 | Could I build one from scratch ? |
| 29 | So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case . |
| 30 | So that we have , I mean nothing of design or anything just short information because I think it 's so |