Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all , you kind of whetted my interest with the part about me killing somebody on a cash basis . ’ |
| 2 | But there 's one one fault really it takes approximately fifteen to eighteen months for them to pass anything like that and that could be one |
| 3 | But if any girlfriend of mine joined one , I 'd have a fit . |
| 4 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 5 | The mention that I was journeying via Marseilles prompted him to warn me , somewhat to my surprise , not to let the street-girls of the special quarter ( since abolished ) commandeer my hat — a favourite play of theirs to inveigle one inside — which suggested that he had experienced such an approach . |
| 6 | It must be sad and hurtful for any parent to find themselves in this situation , because the vast majority of us have nothing but our children 's good at heart . |
| 7 | But far more worrying , there was a growing determination within me to do something about brother Sam . |
| 8 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 9 | Sir , yeah thank you Chairman I hope members will accept this recommendation in paragraph two three and two four says it all , no need for me to say anything on this matter , these figures are |
| 10 | There 's no need for you to do anything about it . |
| 11 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 12 | Professionally , if I felt there was a risk I should want to know that I was clear so I was certain there was no danger of me passing anything on to a patient or a future partner . |
| 13 | And Proust 's relationship with Agostinelli , over a period of I suppose something like seven years , undoubtedly contributed a certain amount to the main outline of the Marcel-Albertine affair in the novel . |
| 14 | ‘ My opinion of you has nothing to do with your profession . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not so bad , ’ said Constance , suddenly stricken with a shaft of loyalty to the culinary customs of her loved one 's fatherland . |
| 16 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
| 17 | And then Frye began to scream , the sound of it paralysing everyone with fright again . |
| 18 | When the wind blows , it blows the powder , like flour , out from the Tynagh mines and the lead in it kills everything it touches . |
| 19 | It was jealousy , I suppose ; the fact that I had spotted a chance they had not , although I could n't get over the suspicion that their reaction to me had something to do with how Liza had told the story . |
| 20 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 21 | ‘ My personal feelings for you have nothing whatever to do with my admiration for your abilities . |
| 22 | The physical contact between them did nothing for her at all , but it was nice all the same . |
| 23 | From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old . |
| 24 | ‘ Does n't the whole of him strike one ? |
| 25 | If it should drop there 's less chance of it hitting anyone 's foot . |
| 26 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 27 | I bought five kept another one for my sen and let Bernard have one let er woman opposite us have one . |
| 28 | For some , as indeed for T. E. Lawrence , this entailed not just the rejection of a repressive social order , but a disidentification from it requiring nothing less than the relinquishing of the self as hitherto constituted and inhabited by that order . |
| 29 | All of us have to face temptation and there are times , as with Nicky in the reading , when the pressures on us to do something wrong are very strong . |
| 30 | They even make their own liquor without it costing anyone a penny — yet there 's this poor devil starving amidst plenty . ’ |