Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made them ink-exercise it for the Thursday and when I got in the results I was tearing my hair . |
| 2 | After a great struggle , I frog-marched her into oilskins and over-trousers , fitted the outboard and set off up the loch , perspiring . |
| 3 | I say , ‘ Want to try again ? ’ and I rabbit-punch him in the throat . |
| 4 | Wondered as one Sunday in February at our appointed hour , I bearded him in his caravan . |
| 5 | Calling Emily , I legged it to the youth hostel two miles away . |
| 6 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 7 | A thatcher can look at a roof and tell you who thatched it by the pattern . ’ |
| 8 | Having recorded the guide-track , you can use it directly to cue the sections of music into place as you pre-record them onto the sound tape , or you can convert them first to tape-counter references ; another alternative is to mark their positions on the back of the tape with a wax pencil or felt-tip pen . |
| 9 | That was the morning — jealousy again — you outraged me by sharing coffee with me , and daring to mention another man , ’ he recollected . |
| 10 | She half-expected it to be a beautiful sight , the white-furred blocks crumbling and cracking like Arctic floes under the August sun . |
| 11 | She unwrapped me from her arms . |
| 12 | It 's only worth using MPs to have a go at the government , and then you spoon-feed it to them . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed to him that he at last had a friend . |
| 14 | It seemed a little drastic the way they frog-marched him through Casualty and tossed him into the street . |
| 15 | The Mail began bingo as an answer to the bingo weapons of the Daily Star and the Sun in their circulation war and they dignified it with the name ‘ Casino ’ , but a heap of dung by any other name still smells the same . |
| 16 | Barbara : They irate you in the lesson , so you ca n't get to work . |
| 17 | Just then Mother Bombie came trundling up , so they legged it into the scutching room . |
| 18 | And what terrible damage they do , have done through the centuries , from the Inquisitor General to Stalin , to your young neighbour in the IRA who believes in the Catholic God and uses that to justify his murdering you in your bed , to the Mullah who whips up the faithful to civil strife in the name of Allah , to the Moonie who steals your children 's money and affections . |
| 19 | Even the most honest of men find it surprisingly easy , through the film of time , to recall their own actions quite differently from the way in which objective evidence makes it clear they in fact occurred . |
| 20 | ‘ He unshackled us from the formality we had started to develop ’ , said one of the top staff in the Research Department . |
| 21 | He has since , of course , achieved a political status by which presumably I ought now to judge him , but as a junior voice in a senior assembly I could not resist the conclusion that he was a little too forthcoming , particularly when on one occasion he outraged me by a suggestion that if a common waiting-list was established , consolidating both private and NHS priorities , the NHS patients should have pride of place before private patients came into the reckoning . |
| 22 | ‘ Did he sweet-talk you into thinking it was forever , when all he wanted was the jade ? |
| 23 | ‘ It 's not just a burner , ’ Doc Threadneedle had told her as he unwrapped it from its tissue like a sugared almond . |
| 24 | ‘ Q. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament ? ’ |
| 25 | I feel certain you will be interested in come of these reports and to aid distribution , and to prevent our troubling you with unwanted copies , I would be grateful if you could arrange for the enclosed card to be completed and returned to us . |