Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to lose my self in you as well . |
| 2 | Little hand cutters are OK , I tend to lose my temper with them , but pro-type jigs will give a much neater result . |
| 3 | Little hand cutters are OK , I tend to lose my temper with them , but pro-type jigs will give a much neater result . |
| 4 | I began to repent my parting with you . |
| 5 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 6 | Reason enough for me to try my luck with her . ’ |
| 7 | If a woman allows the Great Mother her dues — to establish her presence within her — she will make the transition into new or renewed motherhood more easily . |
| 8 | Mum , who was an intelligent woman , resented being stuck at home with two young kids , and used to vent her frustration on me and Jack . |
| 9 | This will help to concentrate its attention on you . |
| 10 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise 's eyes were over-bright and she tried to pass her hand across them as if to brush away a cobweb . |
| 12 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 13 | On the verge of passing out , she felt them connect her bluetower to the memorizer and Jezrael drowned in someone else 's memories , the battle-plans and layouts bulling their way in to trample her personality beneath them . |
| 14 | She blinked and tried to hide her longing for him . |
| 15 | She wriggled up , away , trying to hide her nakedness from him , groping for her clothes , avoiding his look , his touch . |
| 16 | to work their way through it , along with the Choices there is a vi a video to go |
| 17 | This is not to say that trade unions are not concerned about casual workers in the hotel and catering industry ; they very much are and are very keen to Increase their membership amongst them . |
| 18 | Thus , in its first two years , the government 's reputation slumped sharply ; Mrs Thatcher 's ability to impose her personality upon it suffered accordingly . |
| 19 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 20 | The absence of politeness moves might , in other circumstances , be regarded simply as evidence of a narrowing in the social distance , but here , because of recent negative statements Anderson has made to others about McKendrick ( notably his invitation to Broadbent in scene ten , " Go ahead and clout him if you like " ( p. 83 ) ) , we are more likely to infer his contempt for him . |
| 21 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 22 | As his father approached , Richard retreated steadily , never once daring to stand his ground against him . |
| 23 | Obviously you 're annoyed about that letter you received — but that does n't give you the right to vent your spleen on me . |
| 24 | And as the weeks passed , she often met d'Urberville in the garden and began to lose her shyness of him . |
| 25 | He behaved in a pleasant , friendly manner towards her , and she began to lose her fear of him . |
| 26 | Lilliputians soon began to lose their fear of me . |
| 27 | We persuaded rich people to invest their money with us , we used stolen banknotes , we wrote false cheques . |
| 28 | And then her programme of treatment started , and the idea seemed to lose its importance to her . |
| 29 | But I forced myself to write it all down and , as I wrote it , it began to lose its power over me . |
| 30 | She is compelled to preserve her image of them , and has difficulty abandoning anyone because of her own vulnerability . |