Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [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 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 .
4 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 .
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 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
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 so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're
13 I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought .
14 I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park .
15 ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her .
19 ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’
20 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 .
21 I met him at the Labour Club .
22 A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan .
23 ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
24 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 .
25 I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh .
26 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 .
27 I sold it for a reasonable price .
28 If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road .
29 ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said .
30 That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order .
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