Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 2 | When someone or something stops them from getting their own way , their frustration can build up to explosion point . |
| 3 | It contradicts and condemns us in our pride , our self-sufficiency , our ethics , our politics , and our religion which , far from being our point of closest access to God , is the house we build in order to hide ourselves from him , to convince ourselves that we have him in our control . |
| 4 | Put the right clothes on someone and everyone judges them by their appearance . |
| 5 | Her eyes darted back to his and she studied him before parting her lips to give him his answer . |
| 6 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |
| 7 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 8 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 9 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 10 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 11 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 12 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 13 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 14 | Matthew did not answer at once and Wycliffe went on : ‘ When I spoke to you last you told me that you knew nothing of his intentions . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’ |
| 16 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 17 | Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect . |
| 18 | Acknowledge that today is Wednesday , but tell them that you bought it on Tuesday and it is bad and you want a replacement . |
| 19 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 20 | He would not be true to himself if he showered us with blessings while we 're outside of his will . |
| 21 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 22 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 23 | One of his more lasting memorials is the Hattersley domestic loom , which since he introduced it into the islands in 1920 has produced almost the entire output of Harris tweed . |
| 24 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 25 | But he says he was defending himself when she threatened him with a knife . |
| 26 | ‘ Remember one thing ! ’ he said angrily , only just controlling himself as he held her by the shoulders . |
| 27 | Then washed I thee with water ; yea , I cleansed away thy blood from thee and I anointed thee with oil . |
| 28 | No he , it was a bit peculiar , I could n't quite make nothing and they said something about they kept him away from other children or something . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm offering you nothing and I want nothing from you ! ’ |
| 30 | And he said nothing and she did nothing until Geoffroy , the tough son , took exception to his brother Fromont taking refuge in a monastery , and when he would n't come out , he piled up brushwood and burned the whole thing down , monks and Fromont and all . |