Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In case everyone has forgotten , I 'm still here , ’ Paula interjected . |
| 2 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 3 | One may argue that by moving the magnetic field nothing has changed at the position of the wire . |
| 4 | ‘ But of course everyone 's forgotten it by now ? ’ |
| 5 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 6 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 7 | You know that stripy T-shirt I 've got the |
| 8 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 9 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 10 | HSMorris Bristol PS I did find the article amusing and am no less a woman because I did . |
| 11 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 12 | But remembering the faith I have met , and shared , with men of all races , in the unfolding pattern of God 's will , I take courage afresh . |
| 13 | In faith I have applied to go to Sydney , Australia in September . |
| 14 | Boatbuilders would probably say that the 38ft yacht I have described is too expensive to produce . |
| 15 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 16 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 17 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 18 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 19 | The anger goes , no point in being mad , and I remember a tasty bit of gum I 've got stashed in the classroom , and I fancy it . |
| 20 | All I 'd say on five chairman is that this issue of infrastructure particularly sewerage , sewerage , foul water and water supply is a major issue in York and the location of the new settlement I think needs to be very closely assessed in terms of er of five . |
| 21 | ‘ I was looking for a hiding place for some stupid necklace I 'd bought , and the bureau was the nearest thing to hand ! ’ |
| 22 | It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball . |
| 23 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |
| 24 | If it 's another trick I want to warn Midge in time . ’ |
| 25 | Can I say , I , I can express concern about that because I think that in terms of funding I 've written A short term and B long term erm I think we 've got a short term problem and |
| 26 | I 've only got the base I 've lost the top . |
| 27 | I plead guilty , partly , but in my defence I want to return to the point I signalled earlier , that a biographical approach has more political justification if the project being undertaken is one concerned with the cultural history of a marginalized group . |
| 28 | My closest friend actually , she 's got really straight , red hair — it 's the most beautiful hair I 've seen . |
| 29 | Kind of but a cross between the ringlets you do and the ringlets that I had and the type of hair I 've got . |
| 30 | The hair I had watched from above had become disturbed when I lifted her , so that it shaded the line of her left cheek . |