Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 3 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 4 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 5 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 6 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 7 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 9 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 10 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 12 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 13 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 14 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 16 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 17 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |
| 18 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
| 19 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 20 | I take it you book me into that hotel . |
| 21 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 22 | Ask yourself the question , ‘ Is it my desire , my greed , my wish to be in control that drives me in this matter , or do I feel the lightness of purpose that is a mark of the guidance from within ? ’ |
| 23 | Mrs Boswell had packed sheets in her husband 's luggage , and Joseph Ritter laid them on both beds . |
| 24 | For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers . |
| 25 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 26 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 27 | Israeli children eat these pancakes during Hanukkah in December but you can make them at any time of the year . |
| 28 | ‘ There is nothing , ’ she said caustically , ‘ that you could do that would make me in any way feel good . ’ |
| 29 | England has an excellent crop of young players , but my role as Captain and Selector precludes me from naming them in these pages . |
| 30 | ‘ Julius does n't affect me in any way . |