Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just not persuaded Marcus has it in him to be at that level of intensity ’ |
| 2 | Although Koch prides himself on his team 's technological programme , he admitted he had overlooked the change to daylight-saving time , which meant the races began an hour earlier , while the wind was still building . |
| 3 | Pat has lots of his old friends with him , as well as some new ones — and of course , Jess the Cat is there as well ! |
| 4 | Andy shows me to my room , a floor down , at about four in the morning . |
| 5 | Two versions of the tune appear in the collections of Captain Francis O'Neill of the Chicago Police , a contemporary of Honeyman , and Alastair Hardie includes it in his Caledonian Companion , where he acknowledges its publication in Kohler 's Violin Repository of 1885 . |
| 6 | Andy clears a way through the undergrowth and we drag the man beneath the thorns and soft fruit of the brambles and the glossy leaves of the rhodies , into the green darkness ; his rucksack catches on the branches above and Andy takes it off him , pushing it ahead of us . |
| 7 | Marie helps me with my money , and every week she gives me some so I can buy plants and stuff for my room . |
| 8 | My cousin from Coleraine sends it to me , may God bless her and keep her . |
| 9 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 10 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 11 | The Israeli Cabinet approves Shamir 's " peace plan " ; three days later the plan is approved by the Knesset , but the PLO rejects it in its present form . |
| 12 | And he 's at it again when Downes hits him with whatever 's to hand ; kills him ; wonders where he 's going to dump the corpse ; ca n't dress him — far too difficult dressing a corpse — ’ |
| 13 | COSE prides itself on its un-organisation : no dues , no structure , no consortium , no budget , and it 's hard to reckon how such a motley crew , left to its own devices , can even begin to expect to defeat Bill Gates , master of the media , without a common war chest and a seriously orchestrated propaganda campaign . |
| 14 | COSE prides itself on its un-organisation : no dues , no structure , no consortium , no budget ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 15 | Glynn Reynolds drops them outside his brother-in-law 's home , and parks his Sunbeam outside the nearest pub , The Crane . |
| 16 | This popular corner of Spain has something of everything for everyone . |
| 17 | " Auntie Eve cuts them with her teeth . " |
| 18 | Pip struggling to become a gentleman and find mutual love with Estella takes him through his early teens when he left his apprenticeship right through to his middle-age where the next major change takes place . |
| 19 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 20 | Maybe Liam reminds him of something unhappy in his own childhood . |
| 21 | No Lary means something like it 's sort of like someone mm |
| 22 | Yeah , mi mind you , though , if Pete does it with everyone , then it 's a change to what 's been going on usually , it would be nice for a change . |
| 23 | No , I 'm quite sure that Ethel knows something about it . |
| 24 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 25 | Then Tod leads me to his den . |
| 26 | The association of sex and musical imagery reaches a splendid climax in this tale as Alison and Nicholas enjoy " " revel " " and " " melodye " " in bed to a devout musical accompaniment as : The use of animal imagery to describe Alison prepares us for her response to Nicholas 's first assault : while the images of the trave , a frame for holding a horse to be shod , and of the final night of the tale " " derk … as the cole " " , prepare us for the brief scene at Gerveys the blacksmith 's forge ( 3760 – 85 ) . |
| 27 | In imitation of Velasquez , Minton shows himself at his easel reflected in the mirror behind . |
| 28 | Mr Jackson drives me in his car sometimes for a special treat . |
| 29 | Romeo has none of his friend 's worldliness , and one of Timothy Welton 's best moments in the part is the animal way he leans and pushes at Richard Hague 's Benvolio in trying to do dying Tybalt further hurt ; another is his early gaucheness approaching Juliet . |
| 30 | TV 'S Anneka Rice fixes anything with her mobile phone in Challenge Anneka , which returns on Friday ( BBC1 , 8pm ) . |