Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'll tell you one day , if we chance to get acquainted , but for the present my name is all I have that belongs to me alone , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Love from Uncle Willie and that goes for him too . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That goes for me too , ’ Ace said . |
| 4 | This happens to me regularly . |
| 5 | Before this happens to you again , resolve to spring clean your storecupboard and stock up with non-perishable , versatile ingredients which will enable you to create impromptu meals without having to drive miles to the late-night grocers . |
| 6 | This seems to me just false , although I find it hard to show it convincingly . |
| 7 | A more obvious underlying meaning , pointed out by the programme notes , is to see the ‘ round-dance ’ as a metaphor for the transmission of VD or , more topically , AIDS ; but this seems to me less interesting than the social satire whose delicate emotional nuances ( preserved in co-director Ceri Sherlock 's modernised adaptation ) give the play its wider significance and melancholy humour . |
| 8 | This seems to them more like a building site than a City office . |
| 9 | Send your name and address on a postcard to : SHE/Selsun Soft Conditioner Offer , Abbott Laboratories Ltd , Abbott House , Moorbridge Road , Maidenhead , Berkshire , SL6 8LG. 200 bottles have been put aside especially for SHE subscribers , so if this applies to you please mark your postcard clearly . |
| 10 | Listen , that sounds like him now . ’ |
| 11 | Crilly is contemptuous of Henry , but the latter sits beside us just the same , not buying a drink but sniffing and staring dully out of eyes deadish and glazed . |
| 12 | ‘ I know it all depends on me how I stand up to games and how I play . ’ |
| 13 | Erm prohibit er increase in rents and deposits er prohibition on cancelling of tenancies and er a reduction of interest , which all seems to me fairly restorationist really |
| 14 | ‘ That seems to me rather to reinforce suspicion that Amy killed Hereward , ’ Laura said . |
| 15 | It 's likely in consequence to become more and more of an irrelevance , and that seems to me profoundly sad — especially given the examples it was established to uphold . |
| 16 | And that seems to me equally not proven . |
| 17 | Now that seems to me quite extraordinary |
| 18 | Sir : Thanks for a great magazine , I am glad there is a magazine out now that caters for us home users as well , instead of just for the corporate buyers with deep pockets . |
| 19 | I have an Umbrella Tree , above twenty feet high , that flowers with me abundantly , every spring . |
| 20 | Occasionally , it 's the image broadcast first from the cover of the NME that defines a band , that sticks with them forever . |