Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their elbows stand the ghosts of the fallen in the first world war , reminding them of that earlier occasion when so many ministers preached uncritical political guidance from their pulpits . |
| 2 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 4 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 5 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 6 | So , if a couple are not married , the surviving partner receives nothing at all under the Intestacy Rules . |
| 7 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 8 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 9 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 10 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 11 | I " fackins I commend thee for that ! |
| 12 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 13 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 14 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 15 | Once they 've joined in the Pirates Club , you 'll be lucky to see them at all , as they go through their paces for the junior cabaret ( where a lot of hidden young talent come to light ) , or as they enjoy the treasure hunts and fancy dress parties . |
| 16 | ‘ Normally we do n't like people to see them at this stage . |
| 17 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 18 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 19 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 21 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 22 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 23 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've sweated blood to get him to agree to see me at all . |
| 25 | Very good of you to see me at such short notice . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 28 | It would be very comfortable , but they 'd be surprised to see me like that at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . ’ |
| 29 | He thought to himself ‘ I do n't want him to see me like this ’ . |
| 30 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |