Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing have I a brother-in-law who cooks professionally . |
| 2 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 3 | But there I am , waiting for them to give me the okay . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 5 | For them to give you the service you want they need to know about your ideas and any suggestions and comments you may have to ensure the best possible service . |
| 6 | It is a safe bet to assume this competition will present no problems for them leaving them the first pipe band in history to collect every available award and go undefeated for the duration of the season . |
| 7 | ‘ Are n't you going to wait for me to give you a lift ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's impossible for me to give you a definite answer . ’ |
| 9 | It just remains for me to wish you a prosperous and happy one . |
| 10 | It is not for me to say what the states should do although I have a personal view . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you must also realize that for me to do what the Brigadier suggests would be a betrayal of everything my father stood for and gave his life for . ’ |
| 12 | It would be wrong for me to anticipate what the final conclusions of CAJEC , and the Councils of the Institutes ( which will ultimately have to make the decision on the current ‘ hot ’ topics ) will be . |
| 13 | Er put the next bit on for me save me the job say Nottinghamshire 's Big Bang . |
| 14 | Everybody looked at me , waiting for me to show them the robot animal . |
| 15 | She obviously waited for me to prove myself an old toper , but I did not . |
| 16 | But it would not be proper for me to tell you the names of His Highness 's wives and concubines . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 18 | They are looking for someone to give them a helping hand . ’ |
| 19 | Simone rushed back into the house , dumping the bags on the kitchen table , calling out for someone to give her a hand . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe she waiting for someone to show her the town . ’ |
| 21 | Her eyes sought out his to divine what the real mood was : Hope jammed her gaze with a glazed and bland smile . |
| 22 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |
| 23 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 24 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 25 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 26 | Pretty silly of me to give you a false name , but I have n't much experience of — of — ‘ |
| 27 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you know , one of them brought me an oxtail the other evening ? ’ |
| 29 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 30 | One of them asked him a question . |