Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
2 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
3 | As I do not , as a rule , take alcohol , the one glass of sherry I had with lunch enabled me to enjoy myself with the other guests . |
4 | Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself . |
5 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
6 | Naturally , one desires to suppress the personal element so far as possible , but if one has an opinion to express there is nothing to offend anybody in a straightforward ‘ in my opinion . ’ |
7 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
8 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
9 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
10 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
11 | Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer . |
12 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
13 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
14 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
15 | so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're |
16 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
17 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
18 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
19 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
20 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
21 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
22 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
23 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
24 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
25 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
26 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
27 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
28 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
29 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
30 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |