Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leak ’ your past successes through other people , or disclose them yourself in a suitably modest and reluctant manner , as is the British way . |
| 2 | It was n't the egotism she feared that told her none of the others would understand just what the program was , or its significance . |
| 3 | But his immobility , long maintained , hinted at the heaviness of his thoughts , and lent him something of the awe that attached to his odious creation . |
| 4 | With Mr Merchant 's assistance Stewart opens up the box of chocolates and offers me one with the hand that is n't attached to a pulley and the ceiling . |
| 5 | It is not , I believe , a matter of coincidence , that the only current British World Champion is Jamie Delgado , who won the 14-and-under title in Florida last year and owes nothing whatever to the LTA or its training and development programme . |
| 6 | They were out of sight of the guv'nor , so she yelled at Billy Liar and cracked him one behind the saddle . |
| 7 | Obviously the policy is there if we can take let's try and do them one at a time . |
| 8 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 9 | He poured it into the glasses and handed her one with a mocking little bow that nearly made Hilary throw the liquid all over him . |
| 10 | He could hop up behind her and pop her one with the blackjack , no discussion , no fuss , just an instant human sack that he could throw over his shoulder and rush to the car . |
| 11 | In the second place , the correlations that are produced are merely statements about associations , and tell us nothing about the direction of cause and effect . |
| 12 | When he spied his guests , he jumped to his feet and called a greeting , straightening the chairs and holding them one after the other to steady them on the uneven gravel while they sat down . |
| 13 | Running until their pursuers had become separated by the chase , they would turn and ambush them one after the other . |
| 14 | Thorough as ever , Whitaker had already commissioned and worked on scripts by Bill Strutton and Glyn Jones , and penned one himself about the Crusades . |
| 15 | Suddenly , she bent forward and kissed them one after the other . |
| 16 | Those other companies , one of them Thamesdown , I see Mr smiling away up there , because Thamesdown won the one up there , and broke his one in the one in the south . |
| 17 | A second or two later , however , Fabia was turning her concentration to her plate , and giving herself something of a silent talking-to — her theme being that Ven would think he was lunching with some deranged lunatic if she went on grinning like that at him all through the meal . |
| 18 | Send one copy to your insurer and keep one yourself in a safe place . |
| 19 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 20 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 21 | She sent him theatre tickets for two anonymously and bought herself one for a few seats further back . |
| 22 | Alternatively , you can stretch the paper and colour it yourself with a lightfast paint . |
| 23 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 24 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |