Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am personally indebted to her for her help in indexing my text book on bookselling . |
| 2 | Now , I must confess I had n't seen much of Mr Wogan before I met him because , when I got my television set at Low Birk Hatt , Richard Megstone , the nice young gentleman who looked after the Youth Hostel in Baldersdale and kindly took care of my electrical things , said I had a choice — either BBC1 or Channel 4 . |
| 3 | I remember half-waking and seeing my master bend over me . |
| 4 | To this day I have no idea how I nearly managed to kill my flight commander during a taxying accident , but I did . |
| 5 | Do you want my fax phone on the tape ? |
| 6 | I failed my school cert in French way back in 1948 so it was a question of starting out all over again . |
| 7 | a coincidence cos at the time I started taking them actually trying to spare my branch work in a bank . |
| 8 | So I would like to invest my Covermaster money in the Japanese funds . |
| 9 | There 's other types of music that I listen to that do make my hair stand on end and they do n't have a single guitar in them ! |
| 10 | How can I make my tapwater safe for my fish ? |
| 11 | I must also acknowledge to the Minister and the House that I have been unable to interview my constituent face to face . |
| 12 | The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information . |
| 13 | The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) . |
| 14 | I said breathlessly , tucking my pyjama jacket into the bottoms . |
| 15 | It was so weird it made my hair stand on end ; it was almost as if a ghost had walked into the room . |
| 16 | The only thing that made my hair stand on end was when I would say : ‘ Dive through that window there and , as you go through it , hit it with your fists clenched together , tuck your head down in between on your elbows , get through and , as you go through , go into a roll . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She and her magic made my horse slip on the ice last night . ’ |
| 18 | For it was Protestants who got better jobs , who skipped the queue for houses , who made my father work on Christmas day when the union voted against the optional holiday — to keep the Papes in their place . |
| 19 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 20 | You make my sister sound like some predatory Lolita ! |
| 21 | The wind had risen , blowing the boat ever faster shorewards , and , as Alan wrestled with the oars , I tried to unfankle the heap of floss and flies , catching my tail fly on the bottom of the boat in the process . |
| 22 | I 'll ask you what you 're up to soon , but I 've got to strap my safety belt for this question . |
| 23 | PLEASE MY BOSS LADY ON MONTE OCTOBRE . |
| 24 | Do n't , do n't you knock my silver spoon like that . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm building my working life around my family , ’ I could imagine them explaining to puzzled spouses . |
| 26 | I position my head above her backside and let some spit fall down onto where the knuckle is caught on the ring of muscle , then push my finger filly into her . |
| 27 | As I have two young children , I fit my working time around school and sleep times so I am lucky to have a small room at home that I use as a studio . |
| 28 | When I am called to meet my Maker face to Face , I hope my doctor helps me do it gently , instead of striving to avoid the issue . |
| 29 | And simply because I refused to write my life story in his bloody rag . ’ |
| 30 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |