Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question . |
| 2 | Various items get gulped up into my mouth , and after skilful massage with tongue and teeth I transfer them to the plate for additional sculpture with knife and fork and spoon . |
| 3 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 4 | But by the time I tell you her story I want you to be prepared : that 's to say , I want you to have had enough of books , and parrots , and lost letters , and bears , and the opinions of Dr Enid Starkie , and even the opinions of Dr Geoffrey Braithwaite . |
| 5 | With my best caricature British accent I reduce him to a fit of stifled giggles . |
| 6 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 7 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 8 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 9 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 10 | Oh Mum I told you about that . |
| 11 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 12 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 13 | It is Sir Thomas Throgmorton , after the Grand Dickensian Banquet I told you about . ’ |
| 14 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
| 16 | when she came up yesterday I said , we 've had our dinner , I said do you want , want some dinner ? of course I put it in the oven for her |
| 17 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 18 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
| 19 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 20 | ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it . |
| 21 | This afternoon I confronted him with my suspicions , and he admitted everything . |
| 22 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 23 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 24 | ‘ Although when I approach a part I link it to someone I 've observed in real life , with drawing this observation is a much closer examination . |
| 25 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 26 | They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable . |
| 27 | This is the strange storm I warned you of … |
| 28 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 29 | And before the end of the first term everyone knew me as crocodile . |
| 30 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |