Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … .
2 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 .
3 What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time .
4 Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up !
5 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 .
6 But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative .
7 I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned .
8 I flung it on the open ledger on the table .
9 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 .
10 The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log .
11 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
12 I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought .
13 ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully .
14 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 .
15 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
16 ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’
17 I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 .
18 I met him at the Labour Club .
19 ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
20 One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent .
21 I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
22 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 .
23 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
24 That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago .
25 I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself .
26 If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road .
27 ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said .
28 I reproach myself at the same time .
29 That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order .
30 Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
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