Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get my if you get my drift . |
| 2 | Her mouth opened hungrily beneath his and she heard his hoarse intake of breath , his fingers relaxing fractionally on her wrists as his kiss grew deep and passionate , and she responded , kissing him back , her eyes closing and her head tilting back as her body arched softly against his . |
| 3 | Do I because they write their press releases in such a way that it grabs you and says , ‘ Hey ! |
| 4 | At last she stretched out her own hand , but as he took it he allowed it to rest briefly in his before he tightened his grip , applying the necessary force to assist her to her feet . |
| 5 | But I would rather not fiddle around with other , I 'd rather have not done tha well , no I wanted to do language when I when I put my options down , but now , |
| 6 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 7 | ‘ I guess they 'll get round to dragging it off to the junk yard , ’ said Billie , her arm linked through his as they made their way back towards the car . |
| 8 | To my astonishment and chagrin Ellen left her hand in his as he opened his eyes and smiled at her . |
| 9 | Angrily he crushed her mouth harder against his as he plundered her lips with a ferocity that took her breath away . |
| 10 | Duncan was too afraid to taste them so he shut his baby dinosaur lips and shook his head again . |
| 11 | The mother who swore to everyone that she loved her children ! |
| 12 | Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver . |
| 13 | That poem reminds me that I did my best , did my duty if you like . ’ |
| 14 | When Liz told me that she thought your boss wanted to marry you I knew I had to step in and stop that nonsense once and for all , ’ he grated , his strong arms tightening possessively about her . |
| 15 | Mrs Barnet tells me that she expects her husband when she sees him . |
| 16 | He told me that he fired his gun at the dogs and they ran away . |
| 17 | He so loved you and me that he gave his son for us ! |
| 18 | ‘ Are you going to tell me that he holds his castle for the Empress and wo n't take you back ? ’ |
| 19 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 20 | He told me that he liked my playing and that he would give me a ring when I got back to Milwaukee , and about three to four months later we actually formed a band and went on tour . |
| 21 | In my letter to Eliot , enclosing my own article , I had expressed the hope that , in contrast to Rowse , who told me that he considered my letter ‘ ineffective ’ , might approve of it . |
| 22 | It 's important to me that you hear my side of the story — though God knows it does me little enough credit ! |
| 23 | You 've told me that you spent your adolescence in isolation , actually codifying every little bodily habit and cognitive loop — ’ |
| 24 | Your master has persuaded me that you found our correspondence helpful , and that I should resume it . |
| 25 | You have shown me that you think my people are your brothers . |
| 26 | We will have to be very sure that we know what we 're talking about when we meet them to persuade them that we need their funds more and we can make better use of them and we hope to raise around half of that twenty five million pounds from them . |
| 27 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 28 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 29 | Berle met with Canadian officials at the end of March 1944 , and told them that he liked their draft convention , but considered it a long-term rather than an immediate possibility . |
| 30 | I 'm sure that if there is anything she 'll tell me once she gets her confidence back . ’ |