Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I did fall asleep for a moment or two when I shut my eyes hoping to enter my dream again . |
| 2 | Good God , I 've known you long enough and why the hell have my knees decided to take their annual vacation at this precise moment ? |
| 3 | I crawled quietly up the slope , the grass sliding under my chest and belly , my legs straining to propel my bulk up and forward . |
| 4 | I attended the first two or three , before my legs started to trouble me . ’ |
| 5 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 6 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 7 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 8 | Funnily enough I believed that , but not Santa Claus , but my parents seemed to believe it , so I had to go along with them . |
| 9 | Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him . |
| 10 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 11 | My friends had to have their first sit-down in sight of the car . |
| 12 | The last time that the transport did n't come , my friends came to see me instead . |
| 13 | When my children attempted to drag me into the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick I started to devise a list of silly museums — corn plasters of the world , Peruvian nose flutes , or some such other daft idea . |
| 14 | I think he felt it most when my aunts came to visit us . |
| 15 | Well , I do not fish for medals , I fish for pleasure , and while my mates like to net my fish as I like to net theirs , I care very little about petty-minded , selfish ‘ rules ’ . |
| 16 | The rockets were kept in a big steel locker on Orion 's deck and my helpers had to hand them up to me in my pillar box . |
| 17 | I often don't. erm and in some ways coming on a programme like this , or finding other ways to make your views be heard is erm I think very important in a way which me and my colleagues try to do something about the anger that we 're feeling . |
| 18 | Certainly she was indurate against Knox 's sermonizing , and their clash of ideologies was one of the factors leading to passionate outbursts against Mary whenever one of her enemies wished to force her into an awkward situation . |
| 19 | A Buryat tale relates how one of their groups decided to link itself with the Russians because their own khan chopped off heads for crimes which merited mere birching in Muscovite territory . |
| 20 | Her fingers itched to feel his silken flesh beneath them , memories of their first meeting taunting her as she pulled at his shirt , easing it from his trousers . |
| 21 | Jenna said nothing but her fingers began to unfasten his shirt , her hands caressing his skin , and soon he was in no doubt about her feelings . |
| 22 | Luke shook his head , his mouth curled into the kind of annoying smile that made her fingers itch to slap it away . |
| 23 | Their secrets return to haunt them 12 years later when bodies are discovered buried in the grounds . |
| 24 | They never speak to their ponies except to curse them . ’ |
| 25 | Although Robert used his body more than words to communicate , he failed to recognize June 's bodily communications when her words failed to penetrate him . |
| 26 | Folly 's voice petered out as some of her doubts started to reassert themselves . |
| 27 | The origins are often to be found by watching and listening to what goes on in the Soccer Specials — the trains and coaches which fans hire to transport themselves to away games . |
| 28 | The faces are horribly contorted as if suffocating or in great pain , and their eyes seem to follow anyone who passes . |
| 29 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 30 | Already he had managed to force a response from her , as her lips parted to let his darting tongue tease yet further weakness into her limbs . |