Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agonies of reading one 's most intimate feelings and thoughts aloud to a roomful of strangers , and then being expected to talk about them and explain them in an acceptably relaxed and humorous manner were more than I could bear . |
| 2 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 3 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 5 | When they reached the kitchen Lucy collected the cups and saucers while Jean rinsed the crumbs off them and stacked them in the dishwasher . |
| 6 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 7 | Basically , they wanted to write a press release about me and distribute it to all the local newspapers , Radio Cornwall , Television South West and the BBC regional news programme , Spotlight . |
| 8 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |
| 9 | They 're the ones who get everybody else to do what they want them to do , like die for them and work for them and get them into power and protect them and pay taxes and buy them toys , and they 're the ones who 'll survive another big war , in their bunkers and tunnels . |
| 10 | ’ Blenkarn received the goods but never paid for them and sold them to Cundy who knew nothing of his fraud . |
| 11 | I composed a note for them and left it in the hall beside the phone . |
| 12 | Mrs Bennet and Jinny took charge of the two women and two small girls , making tea for them and wrapping them in blankets . |
| 13 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 14 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 15 | ‘ He used to buy slimming magazines for me and put them in my bag , ’ remembers Victoria , who lives in Manchester . |
| 16 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 17 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
| 18 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 19 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 20 | Those too young for sailing still enjoy pottering around the beach and paddling around on old windsurfers , though a parent should stay to look after them and keep them from the nearby road . |
| 21 | Well obviously they would look after them and keep them in good order , and what have you , so that there was no hold up with them trying to make a wage or whatever . |
| 22 | But actually big brothers can be quite kindly and look after you and help you with their experience . |
| 23 | Matilda went after her and found herself in what seemed to be a dark narrow tunnel . |
| 24 | In her shocked lethargy , she seemed content to let Valerie run around after her and do everything for her . |
| 25 | Three of the remaining four were working together until Sunbury when Anderson and Ferrari missed the rollers , allowing Pereira to break away but Andersen chased after him and passed him before the finish . |
| 26 | It was hard to tell , at the moment , whether it would be moving at or away from him , but Sheikh , a patient and methodical child , looked ready to run after it and beat it to death on the boundary should this prove necessary . |
| 27 | I suppose someone could have come from Royston , perhaps leaving after us but passing us in the mist to plan their ambush … ’ |
| 28 | Paragraphs ( a ) , ( b ) and ( c ) of the subsection all describe unilateral , though honest , acts of the appropriator , who takes the property for himself and treats it as his own . |
| 29 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 30 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |