Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 4 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're |
| 7 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 8 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
| 13 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 16 | " 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 19 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 21 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 22 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 24 | I provide you with a one inch to the mile map , and a box of matches each one inch long . |
| 25 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 26 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 27 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
| 28 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 29 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
| 30 | I picture it as a large , grey , multi-headed dragon . |