Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat and watched it all slip past , and thought how she must persuade Murphy to let her cook up the hens ’ mash on the saddle-room boiler , for Dora would hate her to do it in the kitchen , and how she would need a galvanized bucket and an old ladle and a door on the old donkey shed in the orchard to keep out the foxes . |
| 2 | I wondered if Dawlish would let me keep it . |
| 3 | It also occurred to him that if he ever found a German plane as helpless as this , Woolley would require him to destroy it . |
| 4 | This leaves it in an appallingly weak PR position , but it is unavoidable , and appointing a DG would do nothing to improve it . |
| 5 | This leaves it in an appallingly weak PR position , but appointing a DG would do nothing to improve it . |
| 6 | He worries — wrongly , it now seems — that Mr Mitterrand will do anything to cheat him of the succession . |
| 7 | What did he mean when he said half of England will think he got it wrong ? |
| 8 | The fragments show that the horses were standing , or walking quietly ( a lovely little contemporary chariot-horse from Olympia may help us see them ; and cf. fig. 84 ) , and the charioteer stands quite still , feet together , weight evenly distributed , hands forward with the reins ( perhaps a goad also in the left ) . |
| 9 | As the second show was coming to an end , Lucy sat herself in the makeup chair and made a sullen face and checked her watch frequently , with the idea that Josie should catch her doing it as she finally came in through the door . |
| 10 | It leaves one open to an accusation that we dare not make in this Chamber ; otherwise , the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth would hear me say it . |
| 11 | Aria can help you do it . |
| 12 | Deborah did actually say to me , she thought that Harrogate might feel I think it 's to do with priorities for the |
| 13 | Oliver will follow you to fill them . |
| 14 | GHN can help you meet them by creating a personal development programme tailored to suit each individual executive . |
| 15 | She had felt quite peculiar and quite , quite shocked ; how Lucinda could bring herself to do it was a complete mystery . |
| 16 | You could not just say , Christ will help you bear it . |
| 17 | ‘ You may not care for it much just now , but Biff Thacker will teach you to like it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ God will help us save them ! ’ she thought happily . |
| 19 | And if I administer right and justice here God will let me enjoy it , but if I do evil , and demean myself proudly and wrongfully , I know that he will take it away . |
| 20 | ‘ Any Don Juan can say he loves you . ’ |
| 21 | Francis Bacon predicted to Michael Wishart that Minton would invite him to share it , as Wishart was then living with relations in the country and sleeping occasionally on the sofa in Bacon 's studio . |
| 22 | BELVILLE : Your servant , Mrs. Jervis , for your good opinion , but pray if anybody did , do you think Pamela would let you know it ? |
| 23 | Through all of this there was a shadow falling across the conversation , and it was a while before Alina could bring herself to give it a name . |
| 24 | Oh Chris 'll say what have you been buying ? |
| 25 | And well Miss Clark might remember I mean she is as you say probably one of the oldest people and perhaps Miss could rattle her brains a little . |
| 26 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 27 | Henry would have you think he 's a real no-nonsense type — more the rugged Bryan Brown than a glamorous Mel Gibson — but upon entering Robert 's car , I had my chin joyfully slurped by the rising star himself . |
| 28 | Er and then finally on Mr Thomas , er Mr Thomas erm , a number of occasions has er has referred to these sites in and around the er er urban area , if Mr Thomas would like us to show us a list of those sites , er we will look at them , we 've been through it on a number of occasions , square inch almost by square inch , but I 'd be very interested for Mr Thomas 's list of sites in and around the urban area . |
| 29 | " I expect Dada will send someone to tell us . " |