Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This strategy enabled the various members of the family to see the difficulty of the younger daughter 's task , and the part everyone played in making it worse .
2 58% of subjects believed that people with TB should be quarantined , and 63% perceived TB as a severe social stigma , endorsing the item ‘ if you have TB no-one wants to be around you , even people you thought were your friends ’ .
3 The sort of ghost everyone knows about is the sort who goes haunting because he 's trying to get a lifer to do something for him , like revenge his horrible murder , or discover the hidden treasure , or find a will that 's been lost .
4 She said , ‘ In case nothing came of it , I could cut him off . ’
5 Of course everyone knows to which general she belongs , but it is her eyes , her ears and her discernment that have to be relied upon .
6 No chance to talk to Mum about the bike I dream of day and night !
7 He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were .
8 I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper .
9 I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway .
10 And so we bring er a special sort of er expertise I suppose to the talks but also the experience of retirement which we think is is really good by someone who has already retired enjoying retirement to be able come to talk to people .
11 Up in the stand someone giggled with nervous tension .
12 But in any divorce settlement I know with myself
13 First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology .
14 I exercised all the patience I could muster , trying every trick I knew of to get a performance out of Monty .
15 The M and M I did n't like This trick I obtained from Paul Daniels , and my sister the Amazing Avril uses it in her children 's shows .
16 reveals the fruit in ripeness , when the floss inside is ready to be plucked , as soft as the lock of hair I keep with me always from your dear golden head .
17 On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack .
18 ‘ That was my own story I put in the column , ’ said old Eddy Moulton stubbornly .
19 The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial .
20 I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 .
21 ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ .
22 Well , well his parents I mean the extreme Protestants are , are on the rise I mean in South America you know I mean the world 's largest Pentecostal Churches are in Lima and Peru and millions are now becoming erm born-again Christians in South America .
23 What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question .
24 I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines .
25 In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics .
26 My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood .
27 In one case I know of , two friends resolved to escape because they had heard their parents ‘ scheming ’ of such marriages in the near future .
28 Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her .
29 In this case I refer to the DG issues of Domingo ‘ Arias and Tangos ’ and the Wunderlich five-CD collection .
30 Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me .
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