Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [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 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 .
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 Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer .
10 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 .
11 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
12 so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're
13 I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park .
14 ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her .
18 ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’
19 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 .
20 I met him at the Labour Club .
21 A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan .
22 ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
23 I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh .
24 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 .
25 I sold it for a reasonable price .
26 If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road .
27 That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order .
28 " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said .
29 Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
30 ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said .
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